I have used/tested a lot of in-car infotainment systems and the ones that are consistently easy to use seem to be the simplest ones that don’t try to do to much and are NEVER touted by their manufacturers as a selling point in their vehicles, other than, “Yeah, we have that and it will connect to your phone and make…

This is The. Best. Kinja. right here.

This is the Internet, dammit. Logic and well reasoned, practical thought are not acceptable in the comments section. How dare you!

Signed: A guy who has leased as well as purchased a handful of new vehicles over the last 20 years. Sometimes leasing does make sense. Sometimes not.

Nah, it’s the cranky guys in their 70s and 80s that don’t understand that a Honda Odyssey or Toyota Camry, each with about 85% to 90% American content is more American made than any Dodge Ram truck, what with its Mexican-made Hemi.

It is sometimes also the muscle-car guys in their 60s, who secretly commute in a leased…

I remain astonished that, even in a world of dismal Chrysler and Dodge quality, the 500L stands out as a turd among turds. I’ve spent about three separate full weeks with three different 500Ls (rentals and loaners) and remain amazed at how awful those cars are, here well into the 21st century.

Perhaps they haven’t made a big deal out of it, but the RS’s chief engineer (a former rally team engineer) said that their intention was to design a car that could do a track day without hurting itself—which means four or five 30-minute sessions at the track in a given day. Five to eight laps doesn’t sound like 30…

I have a couple of brothers who race local left-turn-only sorts of cars and have used their scales to corner weight a street car with coil overs for a track day. A fantastic tool and probably better than the first $10,000 of engine mods you can come up with.

As far as I know, yes. Just look below this comment at the guy who weighed his Miata and 323 GTX on a Cat scale, presumably at a truck stop.

Truck stop. Cheap, and easy. But it only gives you one number.

It has always been a “shoot the messenger” mentality in big-time college sports when certain news gets out (be it philandering coaches, players committing heinous crimes, etc.), but in the age of a
White House that has declared the media the “opposition,” all bets are off and all reporters are a target.

Well, I ordered mine in April and took delivery in November, so the dealer rightfully figured they wouldn’t be sitting on it and there was some margin built in to a $43,000 econobox.

A friend visited a dealer in December to look at an RS. Their internet ad showed it below sticker (probably a default for any other…

I considered buying a Type R in 1997. One dealer wanted sticker, but wouldn’t let me drive it. The other had some sort of silent auction kind of deal going on. Just tell them the highest price you were willing to pay. Yeah, right!

I see your point there with the Type R, but so many limited-edition performance cars are…

Also, the 1995 M3 Lightweights were absolute turds in the showroom. Many of them sat for a very, very long time. I know of at least a couple that sat for two years. They could have been had for a song. One sold this past weekend at the Gooding & Co. Amelia Island auction for $132,500 with the juice.

The first BMW Z4M Coupes were stacked with $20,000 ADM. I don’t know if anyone actually paid that much, but once the six idiots who had to have that car nowthem, they sat. And sat. And sat. In the end, you could have had a $55,000 MSRP Z4M Coupe for $35,000. BMW was quietly giving $13,000 to dealers (depending on…

This is pretty much the plan I used to get my Focus RS at sticker. I am guessing now that, with a little more searching and a wider net, you could probably get an RS on a dealer lot pretty easily at MSRP and possibly below sticker. All hot cars work that way—in demand for a brief time and then like kryptonite against…

Has anyone else checked out the comments in the original article? They are about 100% in agreement with the Jalops: The writer is a moron.

Honest question: Do you think this guy was just trolling the Federalist? It sure seems that way to me. He said the right things to get the assignment and it sounded just sort of almost correct(ish) enough for his carless, D.C.-based editor. And then he writes this drivel.

Beautiful.

Laguna Seca Blue is The Best Color for the M roadster and M coupe. The. Best.

I don’t always vote around here, but this is crack pipe all day long.

At one of the Porsche dealers in St. Louis in 1992, an early-delivery 968, special ordered, sat for probably a year. It had, essentially, a fuchsia paint job. I think the color was something like “Mountain Purple Rose Metallic” or some other such shit. (In retrospect and looking up Porsche color charts and checking my…