My takedown was more based on the editorial and staffing direction of this site and the sort of thoughtless contrarianism that seems to be spilling all over the stovetop.

Nothing, nothing, nothing is an acceptable alternative to a single cab. If your truck using goal is the least amount of flexibility possible with the lowest amount of leg room, a single cab stands alone. There’s a reason that a single cab resides at the top of every retro-contrarians nonsensical wish list!! Everyone…

This is precisely why we should all be hugging Mazda, Toyota, and Subaru. The Miata and GR86/BRZ shouldn’t exist, and we should all stop spending money on useless shit boxes and just buy them.

As a Brit, I find it almost amusing that people laud over the original Defender, often paying well over $100k+ for an average example. The new one is actually pretty capable, looks fine, and certainly stands out in an ocean of egg-shaped crossovers.

People are freaking out about the 130 like Ford hasn’t been doing this same dance since 2007 and GM since 91.

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.