If this prized Cavalier is a 2.4, you forgot the most important gift. If it doesn’t need it now, it will by next Christmas.

What the Huy! Fong me! That thing is hideous!

Correct. It wouldn’t have been overly difficult to make it AWD. I suspect much of that decision had to do with capital and timing. It was easier to build the car as it was designed since it was already in production.

You’re failure to look at the context of why though. Chrysler had just inherited thousands of AMC/Jeep dealers, and those dealers were part of why Iacocca wanted AMC badly. Those dealers needed product, and needed it quickly. Other than the Premeir, AMC’s lineup was either ancient or cursed with poor reputations. SUVs…

I’d like to see what they were selling that OMIX-ADA had a problem with. Virtually their entire lineup are reproduction parts, so by definition they themselves are copying Willys, AMC and Chrysler designs.

Not really. CJ is Civilian Jeep, named after the WW2 military Jeep was mildly modified for street use. DJ was the dispatcher Jeep most commonly used by USPS from the 50s to the 80s. FJ was the FleetVan, which was a DJ with a square van body.

None of the AMC era Jeeps are catalogued well in Star Parts though. They are a mix of Chrysler’s grouping and AMCs grouping. And VIPs are even worse. If you run my 87 Wagoneer, it shows a TBI 5.9, a 42RH 4 speed auto, 16 inch wheels and a whole host of other incorrect items.

If you want to go, go. You’ll get in at the ticket office. But it couldn’t be open to the general public. It’s unbelievably packed as it is.

Because the real buying public doesn’t want them. The proliferation and sales of Hybrid, plug in and EVs has never been more than a blip, and excluding Tesla they have almost all seen sales declines or discontinuation in the past few years.

And that’s what infuriates me about Tesla. We are collectively paying for them to exist, and it’s not like they are providing a lot of greater good. Electric cars existed before, and every manufacturer would have a fleet of them and would’ve been pushing the development of batteries if the average public had any…

Having dealt with many dealers, this is a great move. The dealers that are small enough to see their franchise as worth < $200k are not committed to the brand and aren’t profitable enough to reinvest for growth.

I’m very interested to see if Tesla maintains their direct method in the long run, assuming they survive. Today, they are selling low volume, high margin products without an expectation of profit. Tomorrow, they want to sell high volume, low margin as well. That means more vehicle inventory and more service centers.…

Why would automakers ever want that? Dealers were created for one reason- its impossibly expensive to own and manage thousands of huge facilities and billions of dollars of vehicle inventory. Even if Tesla gets the verdict they want, mass market brands still aren’t going to rush into direct sales and service.

500L =/= Renegade. 500L = Serbian built Italian minivan. Just FYI.

Not true, but not entirely false. Bodies were assign VINs before they were built, so certain bodies weren’t selected to be black. However, many companies did extra prep work on cars ordered as black. For many years AMC even charged more for black cars to cover that additional labor.

That one is true. The Superbird, Charger 500 and Charger Daytona were based on cars that had flying buttress rear glass design that was bad for high speed aerodynamics. So they came up with a plug and a flush glass. The Dodges got metal work to make the plugs work. The Plymouth got a vinyl top standard because they…

I'd get it wrapped in neon pink. That would make the whiners happy-they don't like a big wall of white so they get a big wall of pink instead.

And this is but one of many, many shit articles Jalopnik has been crapping out over the past few months. I’ve been a dedicated daily reader for at least 8 years. I check in every few days and read a few recent articles now.

I loved the idea of Tesla early on. A new American automaker building a revolutionary product is great. I’ve since been turned off by fact that the company can’t compete following the rules every other volume maker does, can’t profitably build anything, has sapped incredible amounts of tax money in incentives and…

Musk should probably just buy Jalopnik. They’ve already degenerated from a great site with unique content into a bunch of tabloid ‘journalists’ swinging from his nuts, and I’m sure Denton could use the cash.