Nissan sources claim ousted former CEO Carlos Ghosn is to blame for chasing market share, ruining the brand image, and deteriorating the quality of the brand, with an anonymous exec adding the turnaround plan is “aimed at unwinding Ghosn’s negative legacies.”

In previous years, people who wanted to appear posh but couldn’t afford actually to be posh would buy them well used. Picture a 50-something Corvette owner with a lower budget and higher socks and/or pants.

So it seems like soccer balls and basketballs do work as air springs, but in classic Garage 54 fashion, they don’t last, and frankly, remain a pretty dumb idea.

We probably shouldn’t. It looks like “auto-no-mobile”, which sounds like a vehicle that doesn’t go anywhere but does so on its own.

Well yeah, but this is a basically a thought exercise. It is a Torch discussion, after all: we’re not exactly shooting for real-world practicality.

Two words: carbon fiber.

Using two straps and an off-road jack as a winch, Ethan and “comrade cheerleader” Justin Westbrook, as he called himself, managed to hand-winch the E36 all the way up onto the trailer

The Roadmaster weighs over 900 pounds ready-to-ride

Now that the 2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette is real

a Russian sedan that I assume isn’t the most air-tight of vehicles ever manufactured.

which makes a strong case for using a fairly modern rig for off-road adventures, since an older SUV might have just crumbled.

Unions are like any other organization, only as good as their actions indicate.

Honestly, I don’t know why wagons and hatchbacks don’t all have independently opening rear windows.

Question for the group.

And if you need heat:

Clarkson, Hammond, and May did exactly that when they built their electric car several years ago. (Well, the generator was inside the vehicle, not on the roof.) I believe May said he got the idea from diesel-electric locomotives.

“Congratulations ZF, you just invented the Powerglide”

It looks like the protest was also attended by a savvy former Southerner. According to the sign the food truck offers smoked pulled pork, pastrami, fries, and “sweet tea”, which AFAIK is a southern thing.

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African or European swallows?