DeMuro, get on it!

The most ridiculous outgrowth of this whole Hemi thing is the bros who think their lifted SRT Ram or Challenger on 22-inch rims is somehow special because it has a “Hemi” - yeah, it has an engine that Chrysler named Hemi to cash in on the mythos, but not only are hemispherical combustion chambers not all that special,…

Related to the Hemi question “Does it have a big block?”. And immediate loss of interest when the owner says “No”, “No, but...” or “Not technically...”.

Buell’s had his chance, more than one in fact. By all accounts, he hasn’t managed to come up with a machine that didn’t have serious flaws. It’s wholly unrealistic to expect people to continue to gamble their money on products that are most likely to be seriously flawed.

Yes, but your countrymen probably buy quattros and xDrives and 4motions and whatnot because the ads told them it’s awesome, or because they’re worried about wet weather. In the US, there are many states where not having 4-wheel-drive means you effectively cannot use your car for 5-6 months of the year.

Yup, gotta agree. There’s a reason autists were removed from their parents and relocated to institutions as late as the 70s - they are often fucking dangerous to be around. But nowadays even recognizing the danger they pose is not PC so we gotta pretend they’re just like everyone else.

Kotaku certainly is liberal-leaning, no doubt about it (fine with me btw, it’s called market segmentation). But can we all refrain from equating “conservative/not a liberal” with “religious”?

Yeah, but the comment section is personal opinions. So why leave out your political opinion when it’s pertinent? I don’t really get this idea that Jalopnik should be some hallowed hall of pure automotive discourse where everything not strictly car-related is regarded as uncouth.

I don’t really think in “good” or “evil” - it’s just that some country somewhere always wants something, has something to bitch at the US for, and it just annoys me.

It’s crazy to me: the US military has the power to literally destroy the world - there is no country in the world we couldn’t turn into a sea of glass with minimal casualties of our own. Why don’t we use some of that power? Why mess around with individual drone strikes if we can kill millions at the push of a button.…

All ‘70 AMXs had the Ram Air hood but without the Go-Pack, or the standalone raim air option, the scoops were blocked off.

Well, technically you can’t see the Go-Pack as it was all under the metal, one of the few “complete” performance packages available on a domestic car back then - you got either the bigger engine or the biggest, along with power disc brakes, uprated suspension, heavy-duty cooling, bigger tires, functional Ram-Air,…

The AMX wasn’t really a serious performance car out of the box, but some Corvettes aside, what American car of the era was? Competitors might have offered hotter engines, which few people ever ordered because they were a pain to live with day to day. An AMX would still dispatch most cars of its era while being docile…

Hill just isn’t as much a fan-centric artist as we’ve become used to with today’s big music stars. I think she definitely wants a connection with her fans, but in the end her art exists mostly for its own sake, on its own pace.

ISO actually managed to screw up the Italian style, American reliability recipe with the Can Am version. The regular Grifo worked as envisioned with its 327, later 350 small block. A supercar that went head to head with Italy’s finest without needing expensive maintenance every few hundred miles.

Problem is, what do parents who live in small apartments do? I grew up in a two-bedroom apartment with my mom and two older brothers, with doors that might as well have been made from cardboard.

I still like to think there’s some solution to be found that’s more in line with my personally held ideal of the USA as a bit if a global beacon, and a welcoming place for all who really want to make it here.

These old Quattroportes are rather schizoid cars - old-school luxury ride and handling from a time when the luxury sports concept wasn't really accepted yet by the buyers of top-tier luxury sedans, but paired with a high-revving, temperamental sportscar engine.

You can still make money off uncommon sizes if the asking price is high enough. And there's some really big wallets involved in vintage racing...

That was back when the looks of a man weren't judged mostly by women - because what man would base his personal style on a woman's judgment - but by fellow men. Not in a homoerotic way, it was just that many, many dudes looked like that back then, and they all pretty much agreed that this was how a man should ideally…