What if the owner of the trucks wants no such dents and dings showing up at a job site. Think about UPS. They are so paranoid about their image that they send crews to accidents with brown paper to cover up dents, even if a vehicle is being towed.* You can’t have customers thinking their stuff might get damaged.

* At…

Possibly true, but how many times have you had a car in the shop and the shop promises the parts will be in “tomorrow” and tomorrow comes...three months later?

This test was about work trucks and works trucks don’t work when they call in sick for 50-something days.

Worse than the 29% price premium for the aluminum repair, those 35 days of down time mean that the truck is not trucking, not doing its job, not paying its bills. And that’s what trucks are supposed to be doing.

Wow. Scott Disick has Blue Steel down pat.

And the standard EcoBoost is supposed to be considered a positive?

The U.S. doesn’t have “enemies” or “allies.” We only have conveniences that are constantly shifting in many cases.

There is a huge list of cars we say we (Jalops, car fans in general, auto journalists) want and then we never show up at the dealers to actually buy.

I may be a freak, this is true, but not because I just keep the car key naked with nary a ring or house key to its name. My house key is attached to a key ring with the work keys, P.O. box key and another I had no idea why it’s on there.

If people used just the one key, there might not ever have been a growing GM…

I carry just the key, not even a ring. Just the key. What the hell ELSE do you need attached to the key?

I always wondered how a guy could get fired for fucking up the world’s biggest home improvement chain during a time of unfettered home buying, paid $220 million to walk away—just go away, already—and then be named CEO of an even worse struggling enterprise in an industry he knew abso-fucking-lutely nothing about.

Nardel…

You’re giving the guy too much credit. He’s not even worthy of a Grand Moff Tarkin reference.

Now, Ferdinand Piech? Yeah, he’s the sort that invokes visions of the Palpatine.

The main play here is that the Agnelli family, primarily John Elkann, as he is the new Gianni Agnelli and will be until his as-yet-unborn grandson is ready to rule, will profit immensely and still maintain control over both entities. Marchionne works for Elkann, who had to sign off on any move to oust Montezemolo.

Ferr…

No, it’s Putin.

I owned one for a little over two years about 20 years ago. I am not the hottest of hot shoes, but it came from an era when BMWs were neutral and not staggered into automatic understeer as they are now. I could get sideways, hang a little and recover without the need to explain my analog vs. digital tire gauge…

S14 leaks like a sieve and, in order not to suffer oil starvation when driven hard, you need to throw an extra quart in there and install a baffle in the oil pan.

None of that shit—top-down cameras, navigation, automatic braking, lane-departure whatever—is Jalop.

You’re being too kind. Though the movie apparently made (and continues to make) a metric shit ton of royalties from toy and other product tie-ins, it sucked.

The second one was even more idiotic. (The stupid, yokel tow truck becomes a spy? WTF?)

Pixar usually finds a great story and then animates it. Story always comes…

A claw from a hammer to clean out a dado seems like the very worst idea, save for DeLos_’s suggestion of being stuck out in the woods, where you might only have a circular saw, a jig for dadoes, 120V electrical power, some decent lighting, a stash of surfaced lumber and manufactured lumber, probably a couple of saw…

Fifth Gear: FUCK PARAGON!

When Eliot “Mad Dog” Spitzer was AG, he went after a lot of car dealers in New York, including Paragon, for some seriously smarmy shit on the F&I side of the business. They were fined then, but apparently the fine was just part of doing business.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, despite there being no rational reason for making this car, the X6M is BMW’s greatest engineering masterpiece to date. More than the engine in the McLaren F1, more than the i8 (which is another sort of bonkers), more than any M3.

The X6M is allegedly faster around the ‘Ring…