Not always, the ND Miata for example uses it to hide a few wires/hoses.

Test-driving a Chrysler 200.

I personally love the look and proportions of the 3-door.

In California, the carpool lane line is a pretty big deal. $271 fine for crossing into/out without a dashed line. It’s a solid white line and two solid yellow lines. Triple reminder not to cross because of this- the speed differential is sometimes huge. If I’m using the carpool lane in heavy traffic, it’s scary, I’m…

If only we could find a car we knew his son would think is cool, that’s also fast and has a reliable toyota engine. How will we ever dream up such a car.

And varying levels of driving talent

When my lease what 3 months from expiring, I got a call from Ford. They said they wanted to meet me to check if they could work a deal on a new car while trading my lease in early. I hadn’t decided if I was keeping the car or getting a new one so I figured why not.

I had a similar experience. I was having my nissan serviced in an auto-mall type area. I liked BRZ/FR-S so I walked over to the subie dealer and looked around. I asked if they had a BRZ I could test drive, but they told me they had none. I found that strange.

My guess is that you are not Asian. If you looked like an asian kid in his 20s, the dealership will treat you like you are going to buy two loaded M6 @MSRP price.

I once walked into a Kia dealership dressed in a Brioni suit, John Lobb shoes, and wearing a Patek Philippe watch. I was hoping to get long-term financing on a base model Rio but they just laughed and assumed I was too rich! Jerks! I walked out and went immediately to the neighboring Mitsubishi dealer where, to my…

I had a similar experience with my last car I purchased. I got the run around of “well we don’t let anyone test drive special model Camaros or Corvettes(was looking at a 1LE Camaro)”. It’s funny how magically after they ran my credit; a set of car keys gets placed in front of me and the sales guy is like “so where…

so I JUUUUST got done with the hell of buying a car and among MANY of my bad experiences this stood out.

Mine was the exact opposite! I was looking at a Mustang (V6, I know, I know) and a GTI (yes, totally different, I wanted a lot of different things, don’t judge me).

But the EMALS!

The main “advantage” of solid axles is their ability to articulate. Because their pivot point is around a center-point and there are no CV joint angles involved, you can get a large amount of suspension travel out of a production car based platform while keeping most of the stock suspension and driveline components. …

1. Articulation
2. Robustness
3. Lift-ability
4. Ease of modification (you can easily swap an axle to get more driveline strength).

(Also, I was kidding with the “get that crap out of here” remark—it’s what a Jeep fanboy would say to an IFS Wrangler)

More and more customers want to rent SUVs instead of the dinky cars usually associated with rental fleets

LA is crazy for finding your dream/memory cars. I spent the last two years in SoCal and spent a third of my salary buying old, odd cars. I picked this 1980 Brat up in honor of the first car I ever bought when I was 18. It’s about 85 percent done now

Here’s the obvious question. Why doesn’t Toyota sell a crate engine version of this like GM does with its LS?