Idea for next year’s stats: average spread between NP and CP votes. Bonus points for standard deviation.

I wonder how much gas you can pump into the air box, intake manifold, etc. until the pump shuts off?

Are the sticks in these any good? The only Volvo manual I have driven is an S60 from the subsequent generation and it was not very good - balky and goopy like a Saab.

10/10 would hoon. A kinetic sculpture of beauty and and fascinating pedigree.

And for another fifty Euros your restless spirit can inhabit the bonnet of the Audi.

Given M-B’s parts catalogue, don’t pretty much all Benzes have more or less a factory “restoration” program?

Alternative crack pipe vote button label: “Bertha don’t you come around here anymore.”

It could be. The nuclear reactor alone adds immense complexity. Make a list of systems and equipment carriers have that cruise ships do not. It’s a long list.

Great reporting. I am curious... the key downfall of the mortgage bust was the assumption that home values would never, ever go down. That turned out to be a mistake, but I can’t imagine that anyone would ever believe the assets underlying subprime car loans, which is to say 10-year-old Dodge pick up trucks and the…

Talking cars definitely made their mark on the 80s culture.

I guess the Ridgeline probably has better margins than an Accord, but if they’re not bringing in new customers, is this really that big of a win for Honda?

Meaning they’re assuming the value of the car at the end of the lease to be higher than it likely will actually be?

If the Macan is a money-printing Golf (MQB)-based SUV, what cheap hatchback is this Jaaaag based on?

And to think that back in the deepest darkest days of the malaise era, somebody actually bought this as their brand-new car, and add a 25% interest rate to boot!

Do the focus groups say “station wagon” is radioactive for sales? I think we need a post about all of the words that the product managers come up with as an alternative to “station wagon.” My Saab is a “sport combi,” or something like that. We have here a “sportbrake.” What else is out there?

sorry I can’t make cars and coffee today, my hood needs tuckpointing

“These days, you can’t really get one for less than an obscene amount of money.”

What’s that principle from evolution where trees waste energy competing for height? If they all could just agree to stay short they could get the same net sunlight. People want fun cars but the horsepower wars mean we can’t get the funnest part of sport driving anymore.

Don’t forget the zip ties!

O.G. ML is body-on-frame!Even better for stripped-down hoonage!