The folks at Jalopnik consistently struggle with the concept of a “newshole about automobiles.”

VW is successful everywhere but the US, where we get confusing messages from them. Some days, they’re like the Target of automakers. Knock-off styling of higher-priced Germans, but at a value price. Sometimes, they’re just cheap. And sometimes, they’re kind of expensive for what you get, and some times, they’re “Fun…

The question is “how much in stock and bonds in the Big 3 does the UAW hold in their pension fund?” Then you can get back to me about the Big Three being “billionaires.”

I think it just depends on which flavor of douchebag you are. That’s how you select the BMW compared to the Audi. Balsam vinegar & water or apple cider vinegar & water.

Mount the engine amidships in the minivan, rather than the bow. That would make for a heckuva good PRMobile.

#1. About 32 million vehicles have been recalled in the U.S., and the devices are linked to eight deaths and 130 injuries.

At least the car buyers in China don’t have to worry about flood damaged VWs showing up on the buy-here-pay-here lots.

No. I’m not buying Tesla stock.
Also, why do reporters even stoop to paying any attention to Trump? He’s been spoon-feeding bullshit to the media for more than 30 years. Haven’t people figured this out, yet?

They’ve reached market saturation by not selling their cars in luxury malls. So perhaps they should try something with lower overhead.

My “best car company customer service story” is that in the 13 years I have owned my 1993 Miata, I have yet to have a reason to contact Mazda. My car is still using the factory installed A/C refrigerant.

#2. So if you want to go into the whole Nazi ties to automobile manufacturing, you might want to start at home. Ford’s factories in Cologne employed slave labor. And when the German war ministry sent out the RFP for trucks, what do you think response was from Opel, who GM had acquired in the 1920s? One can go on for…

The quality of the face shield is not apparent at the stores when trying on a shield. It’s because the labels on the shield eliminate the view. But in my experience, the clarity of the face shields on the Arai and Shoei are significantly better than lower priced product.

Arai has different sized cheek pads for each helmet. If Arai still fits, try that. I just bought a new Shoei a few weeks ago, and it fits differently, which is to say, “better,” than the Shoei I owned 20 years ago.

A $200 helmet that meets ECE, Snell and DOT standards does not protect your head any better, or worse, than a $800 helmet that meets those standards. About 10 years ago, Motorcyclist magazine published an article about that. Then result was about a dozen 55-gallon drums of a substance that looks like chocolate pudding…

Hack a Harley-Davidson. That’s gotta be good for some laughs. Maybe the crankshaft will spin backwards and the engine will sound like otatop-otatop-misfire-otatop-ota-misfire-otatop. Instead of potato-misfire-pota-to. pota-To...

Tesla yadda-yadda-yadda. The guy exhales carbon dioxide like the rest of us. Please, just blow him and get over the man crush.

I agree.

I don’t get it. I’m not seeing anything special here. It looks like an amalgam. If the C-pillar is truly thin, at least by today’s standards, then maybe it’s got something going on. But overall, it’s difficult for me to pick up on anything distinct about it.

“Because six is too many and four is not enough.” So sayeth Ferdinand Piech in an Audi commercial from the 1980s.

In some circles, a Prius is a fashionable car. But it’s still a tough value proposition.