Yes, but just tilt your head a little and they are “basically” the same. Sleek and low, 2 door, 2 passenger, 2 wheel drive, manual transmission, liftback, built for a single purpose. It just one company chose the purpose to be efficiency and the other chose speed. ;)

I have 2 best decisions. Most recent was a 2000 Honda Insight 5-speed for $500 during the pandemic. Needed brake lines, tires, and a good cleaning. Hybrid battery was supposedly dead. Replaced the brakes and tires cheap and had a running driving car that got 50 mpg for about $1500 total investment. Dug into the…

The stripes appear to just be vinyl, so likely just an original black car that the owner wanted to personalize somehow. I would just peel them off and stick to classic black or if I wanted stripes again go with white or silver. I agree give me silver or polished wheels instead of black.

While the prowler could have been more, it still had pretty good substance. Aluminum double wishbone suspension at all 4 corners, aluminum space frame with bonded lightweight panels, a 2850lb curb weight, and nearly 50/50 weight balance.

I went NP, I would probably peel the stripes or go with a different color for them. Only 1 clarification I can see for the article Rob, those wheels are not aftermarket. They are OEM 18" Viper wheels powder coated black, just from a gen 2 (1997-2002) instead of the 1st gen. There are a lot better selection of 18"…

I love this quote from the resident “There are decibel ratings and ordinances that we have here that limit the amount of noise you can make and how far away that noise can be, and I think it’s somewhere between 60 to 80 decibels.”

Yeah, I was a little confused too. The chosen comment was about the RS4 which should be the proper M3 comparison, and then they use a picture of an RS3 and talk about it. RS3 is a BMW 2 series competitor. M3, as stated, is much more expensive than an RS3.

Reading this article reminded me of something interesting. It is kind of wild thinking about just how much 80/90's advertising and television has been converted and uploaded to the internet to exist forever. Programable VHS recorders were pretty common place to save your show if you weren’t at home to watch it, and…

I guess I fall into the weird group, according to some of the comments, with you that I don’t notice tattoo’s. Tattoos are so common now and so many people have them around me that they are nothing special, not even worth a passing glance. I sold my old boat last weekend and I know the guy had sleeves but I couldn’t…

I think the cost they came up with is the interesting part, not the concept. If you bought a new light duty truck from the Big 3 with a V8 and did only city miles (lowest I saw was 15mpg for non Raptor/trx) at the US DOT average miles driven per year of 13,476; you would pay $180 in road tax to Texas. The charge for…

If you use the US DOT average miles driven per year of 13,476 that means basically everything short of a V8 Raptor or Ram TRX will cost less in road tax than an EV in Texas. If you bought a regular Civic and just did highway miles you would only pay $67 in road fuel tax.  EV owners are getting screwed.

1986 Jeep Comanche with the GM 2.8 V6. God that motor sucked! Crappy carb, head gaskets that leaked if you sneezed too hard, no power, and wasn’t efficient. Oh and it was the 3 speed slushbox just to add insult to injury. I later got a 4.0l 5 speed Comanche and it was much more enjoyable.

Assuming markups aren’t ridiculous, I plan to order an RS3 sometime next year.

Yeah, the ev trucks can tow, but even before the price hike a Rivian was still almost $20k more expensive than what we bought, also exactly 2 ft longer and size was important. Hopefully soon there will be some nice midsize 2 row electric SUVs with around 5-6000lbs of towing capability on the market that don’t cost an…

Price and features is what steered me and the wife from getting electric this go around. To get a similarly equipped electric it was going to be around $12k more and it would still be missing something I considered essential, a decent tow rating. Range wasn’t even a deal breaker for us. We bought an SUV because a…

The guy in the video really had no excuse if his tires were old since those are the 18in gen 2 wheels which use a 335/30/18 of which there are plenty of good options on Tire Rack.

You do realize that no Viper ever built has more weight on the front than the rear? They are all rear bias as far as weight, some more than others. The rt-10 like in the video should be around 51% of static weight on the rear. The hardtop GTS models were close to 54% rear bias.  Fun fact the giant engine sits entirely…

Glad to see there is still no editing or proofreading being done before publishing articles at Jalopnik.

If it was a 2014 or newer, which had the 8 speed and the updated interior, maybe I would have said nice price. But a low trim level, maybe Big Horn at best judging by the pics, with a hemi is nothing special, color not withstanding. I find it funny that they mention it has a tonneau cover but not a single picture with…

I feel like the regular to premium spread really started getting wider around 2012-13. I got my first turbo car in 2009 and even in Chicago where I was living it was still stuck at 10 cent jumps between grades. I would regularly drive between Illinois, Central Indiana, and SE Michigan and when I moved to michigan in…