My parents had the Mercury Topaz variant that came “loaded” with power door locks and windows and power mirrors if I recall correctly. Also had AM AND FM radio and air conditioning. Truly a marvel of modern automobiles at the time. Except it was a gigantic pile of shit that had a tendency to stall itself (and it was…

My friend had a Tempo all throughout HS.  The way he drove it, the car was never boring.  But wasn’t fun either- more like terrifying.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s going on here and how blogs function.

No, we don’t have a budget to buy twenty comm units and test them against each other, and even if we did, it wouldn’t get anywhere near enough clicks to justify the purchase. Jalopnik is not Consumer Reports. Cardo sent me a unit,…

Good stuff! In my case, the corrosion was so bad that the positive lug just wasn’t connected to anything anymore. Ah, the Midwest. lol

So they paid 33k when a brand new off the lot model with better tech and a warranty is maybe 6k more? That site has to be money laundering or half of the bidders are in the early stages of dementia.

Don’t be like NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, who was detained at Cancun International Airport for bringing a handgun into the country last year.

I think he got kicked out of NC after getting caught. I wonder how he is able to get any type of insurance, even just liability He’s wadded at least four BMW 1000RR’s, a R1 and other bikes.

There are a lot of candidates for this list, but I’m going with one of the more attainable ones.

I don’t know if that’ll buff out...

Very early — that episode might even have been recorded before he was named CEO. (It was the same year, anyway.)

It’s real weird to for two people to confidently pontificate

Just as I was starting to feel for the plight of the poor tow truck driver simply trying to do his job, the diminutive wigger had to go and drop the n-word. (00:59 in the vid) There are sooooo many non-racist ways to express your anger, dude. Using that word does not, in fact, make you ‘gangsta as shit.’ “That motherfu…

that’s supposed to be a kid?

I’m a firefighter/paramedic and one of my coworkers found one at a Goodwill store and now he gets set in places in an attempt to scare fellow crew members as they walk into a room or around a corner. He's even spent time on the fire truck and ambulance. He's VERY effective and gets angrily thrown a lot! IMO, this is…

My understanding: It represents a child crying because the parents spent all their money on the vehicle instead of the kid. Whenever I see one of those, I ignore that car and move on to the next one.

Or just get the damn permits

Right.  And Jaguar?

They weren’t in the study. Neither were Jag, Alfa, or Maserati even though they’re all still pretty mainstream brands with plenty of used stock out there.

They’re making the worst used cars??

It probably barely ran. It’s an old Evo ElectraGlide that someone had modified into a Road King clone. Why?