That’s where I’m at with this. People here complain there aren’t any more manuals, or hatchbacks/liftbacks, or cars in fun colors. This has all of those things. It’s not going to be the Acura you remember from the past. It was never going to be. Did anyone really expect it to be? It’s hard to “channel” a car of the…

The 350Z-G35 relationship is actually exactly what an Integra-Civic relationship is supposed to be. Sport-minded coupe vs. Sensible commuter.

Show the court on the teddy bear where Jalopnik hurt you.

“Man whose parents have amassed just enough to retire at 65 without reducing middle class standard of living crushes their dreams in one fell swoop.”

Keep in mind (unless you already know this) that the 4.2 has the lovely cam sprockets that are a press-fit, and requires the special tooling to get everything aligned properly - there’s a pin that goes in the side of the block to lock the crank, and a bar that aligns the cams - then the belt can be replaced. Blauparts…

Good luck with it Mercedes. I have always had a desire for a Phaeton but when I think of any kind of maintenance my body seizes up.

The previous owner claims that a cooling system flush was already done. The squeaky clean pink coolant seems to support that.

Maybe the timing belt change is 75% of the labor to get to the water pump?

It’s possible for things to be both bad and overly prosecuted.

Drunk driving is bad, sure, and it’s also been demonized to the point of parody.

At times and places America has been about pushing frontiers and boundaries at at other times it has been anti-science, anti-progress, puritanical and parochial. We swing both ways as a country. When we have a foreign enemy we seem to do better otherwise we eat ourselves. 

This is a great take, and it’s the part that bothers me about this.

Option 4: You hate the giant screens, lack of actual controls and shit build quality. Also, paying for a subscription for extra features. Also, also... dealing with a company that thinks regular OTA software updates for buggy software are a perfectly reasonable way to treat an auto customer. (Barely acceptable for a…

EVs are a great value proposition. I’d wager that the vast majority of 2 car households in the US could EASILY live their same lives with at least one of those cars being electric. Add in more charging infrastructure for apartments and condos, and you can greatly increase the number of families that could adopt…

I own 9 internal combustion vehicles. My next purchase will be electric, partly to do my part to cut emissions and partly because I like how they drive. And I support an escalating carbon tax to help capture the externalities of fossil fuel usage and make cleaner energy sources more competitive.

Can you imagine if we’d had your attitude back at the introduction of the internal combustion engine? If everyone said they were a “bad value proposition” (whatever that means) because we already had horse feeding troughs and people who cleared the sh*t from our streets?

Our transition to EV’s is infinitely easier,…

The clickbait headline is just an outright lie, and the assumption that DOT = bad is what I mainly take issue with. Also thinking that the double impact test was good? Bad? It’s shown as both in this article.

It depends on the prefix for Snell. There are certs that begin with “SA” for cars, and “M” for motorcycles. For example, SA2020 vs M2020.

Thank you for posting. I have been confused by the new ECE 06. I run a Bell Race Star Flex for the street and it conforms to both ECE 05 and SNELL M2020. I’m hoping that’s the best of all worlds.

Okay, I realize you mean well, but this post is significantly unhelpful in terms of providing useful information. It’s also flat-out wrong in some respects. Did you even trade emails with any helmet standards guys before posting this? I’ll try to address things in an orderly fashion.