If sales figures are what makes a car good, the Prius is the best in the world. The Jeep is not a Jeep any more, it's a stylistic outlier in the mommy-mobile class as evidenced by the sheer volume of them rolling off the salesroom floor and onto soccer fields across the country.

Sarcasm is not lost. I mentioned the glove box as an indicator of build quality solely because it was so astonishingly bad. Chrysler's reliability ratings speak for themselves.

And to be fair, the build quality last I checked (which was admittedly 2-3 years ago) is so poor that I can't imagine it actually holding up to any real off road abuse. The glovebox was so flimsy in the new 2011 model (I think that's when I last glanced in that direction) it felt like it was going to break off in my…

I think you're onto something. I stated elsewhere that I thought the El Camino/Ranchero/etc. cars were what first came to mind, but trucks in general are probably the #1 answer (though I doubt they'll get a lot of play from this crowd as I don't imagine there are a bunch of truck people here). I drove an F150 in…

This is a post about the worst winter cars, not the worst cars in history.

There's a similar conversation going on where someone suggested the Beetle. I live in the mountains of Colorado where there is about 3 inches of snow on the ground right now and the roads have an inch of ice pack in places, and DD a '57 Karmann Ghia. They're pretty great. As long as you don't do the sort of thing that…

This and similar muscle utes are what immediately leapt to my mind. I've never driven one though, so can't really speak to it. I'm sure there are people out there that have driven these through the winter with nary a problem or complaint.

That's why they're so popular in Alaska... Air cooled always starts. Air cooled always goes.

I'm not sure how this hasn't come up yet save that it's the headline photo for the article.

That equals a 5.4 second sprint to 60 in the six speed manual and 5.9 in the CVT. Yep, CVT wasn't a lie, it's true. There is a "sport sharp" setting for the CVT, which makes the CVT act like it has eight gears. Don't buy the CVT. Just don't. Thanks.

It's a factory staffed by vampires.

It may make more noise than go at times, but what a noise!

My current DD is a '57 VW, and I've mulled the attraction/revulsion on many occasions. I completely understand the adventure aspect, but personally I do my best to mitigate this part of the experience through regular and thorough maintenance. To me, it's more about the relationship you form with the machine. If you…

I'm a Karmann Ghia guy; my DD is a '57. I'm also a Porsche guy (though there are currently none in the stable owing in part to the needs of a startup company). I have two Porsche (914/912E) engine cores in a shipping container across town right now destined to be made to fit in the back of said Karmann Ghia and…

I didn't say anything about rednecks or low displacement. The implication was that nerds like to play with numbers and precision tools, and that this is required for air cooled engines. When people don't apply that mentality their air cooled engines don't last very long, and when they do they are rewarded by…

Muscle car guys don't worry about torque specs and set timing by ear. Air cooled guys have to use all the fun tools; big displacement water cooled cars are boring by comparison. Air cooled is the engine of choice for cerebral car nerds who wear lab coats in the shop. Special care must be taken to account for the…

I'm indifferent to the styling (a "straight-7s" move for sure), but it surely appealed to the greatest number of people in the focus group. As long as it keeps the horizontally opposed engine configuration, I say bully! If they slap another goddamn V6 in it like every other bore-box on the road, Subaru will be dead to…

But if the paint is that fresh and there's still rust warranting disclosure, it was assuredly not properly fixed and will not be easily mitigated without significant expense.

Well said! Now if only the rest of the V6/I4 car buying public would understand the inherent awesomeness of these engine configurations, we could hang up our Jalop towels and relax in our new Shangri-La!

One of the few configurations better than a straight six is a flat six...