I’m sorry but “Jalopnik” and “Lincoln Navigator Buyer’s Guide” in the same URL just doesn’t seem right.

Is there a less Jalop vehicle available on the U.S. market?

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I’m still waiting to get 100% of what I paid into the absolutely disastrous Iraq war (speaking of terrible government ideas of the ‘Aughts).

Unfortunately—really unfortunately—government doesn’t work that way. A net loss of less than $10 billion to save roughly 3,000,000 jobs? Shit, that might be the best deal our…

Someone help me out here. Isn’t rock ‘n roll supposed to be rebellious, anti-institutional?

Is there anything more ridiculous than an institution for the anti-institutional?

I find everything about the RRHoF to be shameless, pathetic and ridiculous. It’s an absurdity made real. And then we have to listen to all of…

REVERSE: Leaded gas was a lethal man-made disaster that was fought almost from the beginning but took decades to remove from gasoline.

Fun (or not so fun) fact: The same guy who discovered lead as a knock-resistor in gas also invented CFCs, another lethal man-made disaster.

That’s exactly what I meant...and what I wrote.

No, not at all, hence the “;>)“ but if I can get my dig in on Senna, I will.

I suppose I should also point out, germane to this comment, that Prost won his first two championships with the TAG name on the engines.

Clearly, you are caught up in woefully misguided process of deifying Senna. ;>)

TAG produced not a single engine. As now, they just paid to have their name on the rocker covers. To say they “built” Porsche engines would not be my choice of words.

Oddly enough, I am pretty sure that Techniques d’Avant Garde has sold off their chunk of Heuer but the watch company has kept the TAG part of their…

Then why the fuck did they kill off the one almost-wagonesque, reasonably styled, not-too-butch CUV thing—the Venza—and instead leave us with fewer choices to replace it with?

I was going to use the Ford example. And you make an excellent point about German business standards, accounting and less quarterly pressure from shareholders. I believe one of the major institutional investors you speak of at VW remains the German state of Lower Saxony, which has gone out of its way to cast their…

Third gear is what matters here. Every other item here is noise.

Automakers are some of the biggest industrial companies in the world (that aren’t fossil fuel purveyors). They generate oceans of cash. And they are also some of the most capital-intensive organizations, too.

If VW was not operating on good terms with…

My bad. I intended to write “most successful new American car label” since DeSoto, which came out just after Plymouth, but take your pick of either Chrysler nameplate, though Plymouth was very successful from the get-go.

Edsel actually was a success in its first-year numbers, considering it was the first new American car label since Plymouth DeSoto. However, the cars were based on either Fords or Mercurys and were not distinctive enough.

On top of that, while successful, it wasn’t even close to what Ford had expected, given how bad the…

There is still time to do the right thing.

I have to give Fiat credit here, because they have merged the only decent product they make and the only decent component of any 500—the Abarth’s turbo engine—with the most delectable chassis extant.

Let’s hope it works as well in practice as it sounds on paper.

Curiously, in the past year, the whole “no Irish need apply” thing was debunked and then de-debunked.

Would that make it bunked?

I am guessing that this would be an upgrade for this guy:

Anybody got a line on the over/under for how much a Hellcat egregiously violates emissions standards when doing a 10-second quarter mile?