The SCCA requires vehicles to be wider than they are tall, and this requirement is shared by most official autox groups due to insurance requirements. I’ve seen a Fiesta ST roll over at an autox and it totaled a brand new car. Of course, if this safety nightmare were totaled you’d only be out the cost of a set of…

We can only hope and pray that the minuscule grip of those pizza cutters and 1/5 the hp of your average lawnmower will keep him out of any real danger.

Who’s idea was it to start the Jalopnik Darwin awards? Can we get odds on who goes first? While orlove and the schwinn is the obvious choice, i’m taking Torch in the changli. tracy fleeing his hoa for the minivan actually seems like the most rational decisision. holy shit. what are you doing guys doing?

“American car journalist discomfited by sexual trace evidence disclosing strange erotic sessions with Chinese vehicle; color-discriminant restraining fabric strips were employed in unspecified manner”

Maybe he can strap some of these bad boys to the Changli. Let er rip!

This! every single article!! The sheer concern for Torch by Booker is astounding!

Much like the Focus in my garage, the tires are leaking, it’s not safe to drive over 35mph and it’s probably full of spiders.

Couple of thoughts:

My takeaway is that the Changli’s quality is about in line with my Fiesta ST’s after 3 months..

Like a rock-

There. Fixed that for you.

Compared to any American Car built in the era it was.

LOL on that Dodge ... those thumb horn buttons were for when that highway speed wobble got so frantically crazy that you had to hold on for dear life and beep folks outta the way.

And on top of that you get the pleasure of GM running out of parts for your car, even when it’s still in production.

You spelled Dodge wrong

I had a 1981 Prelude with that much power and weight. It was not a firecracker.

You figured out exactly what the buttons did, they made satisfying little clicky sounds,

I like that there are two buttons for the horn.

Meh, I want to shift my transmission from my steering wheel

As a kid growing up in the 80's it always seemed to me that anything Japanese- whether it was a boom box, car, TV set or whatever was approximately 20 years into the future. My Mom had a 1985 Camry and the stereo in it was insane: 200 teeny little buttons and knobs, all of which made neat, satisfying little clicky…