He was convicted of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, and evidence tampering, and got a sentence that at his age might be tantamount to life in prison. Won’t bring his victim back, of course.

She learned to drive stick on the company car rather than yours? Smart kid and a real parenting win!

This one has been languishing almost a month in a wealth enclave within pleasure-driving distance of a huge market. Hard to tell whether it’s the asking price for a car with mostly silly “upgrades” and some neglect, or an ad that makes the seller come off as kind of a pill to deal with. Why choose?

Plus, and you have to do a lot of driving that plays to the advantages of the diesel to make up for the higher cost of fuel (about 50 cents a gallon more than regular gas, or about on a par with premium) and the various hassle factors and failure modes that modernity has brought to the once wonderfully simple diesel e…

Trump has often voiced opinions about technical subjects, generally revealing a deep lack of understanding of either complexities at scale (as in repatriating a globalized manufacturing industry) or the hidden flaw in his logic (e.g., the miles and mountains that separate Los Angeles from the water that Northern…

Ah, the G8, another much-to-like offering whose timing couldn’t have been more snakebit. It caught the peak of the yo-yo era of gas prices that was on the upslope throughout the life of this generation of GTO... and then came the Great Recession, and, all too soon, the end of the entire marque.  

I may be in a minority here, but I always liked the “muscle for grown-ups” look of these. The whatever-it-says windshield tint strip, the probably harder to remove decal of some kind on the backlight, maybe not so much. Dunno whether to try to rectify or just replace the smoked taillights.

The overall effect is ineffably French, like a Citroen DS from a different timeline.

So much this. Recent pickups have impressive capabilities, but they come at a price. The actual price, for one; and driver sightlines; and if you aren’t of NFL lineman proportions, the backache that comes from getting significant loads in and out of them.

True, but there was a time when El Caminos and Rancheros were a common sight on the American road (they still come out on pretty weekends where I am).

And the appeal of the ute is that it combines virtues of cars and pickup trucks. Since the days of which you speak (it’s been a minute), the US market has fully embraced the pickup truck. Though it’ll never quite convince you that it’s a car, said pickup has become a much nicer place to be... and the increasingly…

I once knew a drummer whose day job was in my office, and loved the Element because she could get the drum kit in back with minimal disassembly, yet the gas mileage and driving experience were quite decent in her commute and non-gig errands.

Depends on what you mean by big money. There are air cooled Sambas, Westfalia Vanagons, and so forth that command high prices for what they are (speaking as someone who gets but doesn’t really share this particular passion). I wonder if the Phaeton, especially with the bonkers W12, is going to be considered a real…

The first time I ever saw one, I immediately thought, “this is the design direction Lincoln should have taken.” Their message to the world is one of subdued, classy wealth. Supposedly they are nice to be in and to drive, too.

This is a real Portrait of Kramer vehicle. It transcends space and time in its search for perhaps individually defensible design cues that don’t go together. It sickens me. I love it!

The low mileage and originality make this one a statistical outlier, but still, it feels like a highly aspirational price even for a dealer.

Were these cars cool when they came out?

Or maybe that’s as closely as they can narrow it down with sufficient confidence?

One of my favorite professors would tell of being demobilized after WW2 along with several million of his closest friends. As he put it, he “could put a mortar round into an oil drum at 100 yards, but there weren’t many openings for that at General Motors.”

QC is itself fallible. If indeed there are only a few to several affected vehicles out of a possible 23,000 it isn’t surprising that they got through. In fields that require truly comprehensive QA of every function and part of every unit of a big complicated machine, the products are priced accordingly.