So the moral of this story is: If you own an Explorer or Jeep Grand Cherokee, aim towards the object you’re about to hit so you hit it more squarely.

This begs for a DLC expansion with a festival site at the Dunsfold Aerodrome. Given that it’s hosted one of the best car shows of all time for most of the last two decades, and that it’s soon to go the way of the Dodo, it would be a proper send-off. And Forza has had a tie-up with Top Gear for a number of years now,…

Wow, I didn’t know that! That’s an odd coincidence... I wonder if it’s just that or if some of the people developing Zelda are Corvette nerds?

How about a compromise; give them all actual names that start with Z! The top line Camaro could be the Zoombaby. The off-road Colorado could be the Zanzibar. They could make an extra soft-riding Impala called Zzzz-dreams.

I wouldn’t call this thing anywhere NEAR “alarmingly ugly”. I think it’s actually relatively attractive and modern looking.

The 5.7 IROC was relatively rare... most had the 5.0/305 (like mine originally...). The TPI system was a big step up from the throttle body injected cars and there were things you could do to tune it, although not as easily as today’s cars.

I was lucky with my IROC, the only time the doors wouldn’t open was in the winter. The doors used to actually freeze to the body, so I’d have to resort to either body checking it in just the right spot to try to break the ice free, or climb in through the hatch. At 6' 4", the hatch option wasn’t easy!

That’s one thing I never did on my ‘87 IROC... It was in my plans but I spent so much time trying to fix other issues that came up I never got around to it before I eventually gave up on the car altogether. Managed to upgrade the engine, trans, exhaust and suspension in the time that I had it, but then spent a lot of…

It must be; I don’t think any of them ever rolled off the line as convertibles. At least not in the 3rd gen.

I’m with you on this, except I think I’d honestly prefer a hardtop or even t-top version over the convertible. $6k would even be steep then; these cars are great looking but they can bleed you dry when you really start digging into them.

And on these cars a worthy powerplant and transmission are a waste unless you go through the expense of adding subframe connectors as well to keep it from twisting itself in half on a hard launch. The t-top versions of these cars had a lot of body flex, so I can only assume that the convertible version has all of the…

Hypothetically, could this be built on the JL Wrangler’s chassis with its own unique body? Might cut down production costs and easily open it up to the custom accessories market.

What’s Bob Lutz up to?

My wife shopped a CX5 a couple of months ago. My parents had one for a while and she really liked it, but we were disappointed with the updated design. The materials felt nicer, but outward visibility seemed a lot worse, like the pillars got a lot thicker.

This is a very informative article! There really is a lot of misinformation out there about oil and it properly addressed a lot of the common misconceptions I hear.

On a somewhat related note, has anybody here tried the “Naskart” indoor karting track that opened up in Connecticut last year? I’m about three hours away from it... is it worth the drive in your opinion?

I think you’re onto something there. It’s more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slowly.

I got tired of the two previous cars that I leased relatively quickly.

I really can’t understand how this is a problem. Every car I’ve ever driven with a proximity key (across a number of foreign + domestic nameplates) beeps loudly if you get out of the vehicle while it’s still running. That’s in addition to the traditional door chime you’d get when the car was running with the key in…

Kind of an awesome idea for a new childrens’ book though... Goldilocks as an astrophysicist might get more kids into STEM!