I got an additional $500 in trade on a new Mazda3 because I own a Miata. Seriously.

As for JLR...I didn’t know they have $6.8 billion to cut from their budgets. Good luck with that.

Because cars back then were pieces of junk. The brand new ‘69 Pontiac my dad had spent more time in the shop than it did on the road. If you could afford to trade every two years, you did. It was an odd form of class warfare, really. If you couldn’t afford to trade every two years, you’d better be related to a…

Back when I was a pup, they used to have commercials that showed how the plastic nose on that there Pontiac would bend, rather than break, but driving the car slowly into a pane of bulletproof glass. Those were good times! I think I’ll go fart some dust now....

Wait....do you mean American federal government agencies are playing fast and loose with the rules?

When the parking brake is up, you’re going to have to watch it when you get in or out of the car.

Plus, the lack of a/c is kind of a bonus on these old European cars. It truly was an “add-on,” rather than engineered into it.

The engine in the Volvo 164 is the PRV six. Many of these had a tendency to get a bit of a sludge build-up in the oilways, which reduced oil flow into the cylinder head. About 20 years ago, while at a Volvo club event, I recall a 164 enthusiast telling me about this problem, and he said it usually happens around the…

Never before has so much been written about a James Bond film that was so wrong.

Looking at that makes my nutsack ache.

Crackpipe, unfortunately. The owner’s modifications are not suited to my tastes, but then I’m not into drifting. For that same amount of money, one could find the nicest stock Celica available from the same time.

Not entirely. Generally, when people want to spend a lot of money on a car, they want the car exactly how they want it. They will spend hours agonizing over the colors, trim levels and option packages, until they think they know what they want. The more expensive the car is, then the more personal the decision is for…

They aren’t making new cars that are branded with “Mazdaspeed.” You can go to the Mazdaspeed web site for the rest of the details.

Compared to the other sportbikes, the CBR has always been the sportbike for sane people. The riding position is something that just about everyone can handle.

At $6500, that’s a bit steep. However, that’s the asking price. However, at 120k, I bet the engine is tired. Given that the rest of the car appears to be good at 72dpi, and pretending that it is, then this could be a fun place to start with a decent sort of resto-mod.

The expensive part is always the body and…

It’s easy for them to say, “Oh yes, we’re going electric.” It’s another thing for them to actually get those products engineered, designed, marketed, focus grouped, redesigned, product spec’d, and out the door to the dealers, and into the customers, who live in those markets, where an electric car is a practical…

I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if that winds up at US Toyota dealers.

No. I took delivery of a Mazda 3 sedan with the stick & 2.0.

Most of Buzzfeed is stupid trolling bullshit.

And if it wasn’t for the British, who saw the value in the factory and design of the car, and resurrected the company and surrounding town, VW wouldn’t have survived the 1950s.

It’s ugly. Stop paying attention to it and maybe it will go away.