This article makes me miss my XJ. :(

Just means that VW cheated really well.

Not gonna lie, with everything taken off, that Jeep is pretty badass.

No alarms? These guys spent a full half hour stealing cars and no police response?

At least this can actually do something that existing aircraft can’t

Yeah I have no dog in this fight. My lowest powered car put down 75hp to the rear wheels. :(

With a CVT, gasoline reciprocating piston engines make very little sense. Diesels and perhaps gas turbines are more efficient, when you have a transmission which can keep the engine in a narrow but high efficiency power band.

Having never financed a vehicle and almost always doing my own repairs, I usually find it cheaper to repair an old car than to buy another car, even if it’s major work. $500 for a new stainless cat back exhaust? That’s two payments on a new economy car, and that exhaust will last 10 years even in the rust belt. A LOT…

Brilliance.

There’s an entire class dedicated to mostly-stock VW Type 1s in the Baja 500/1000. If that doesn’t speak to their rugged nature, I don’t know what does.

It’s also the only car I know of where you can change the one belt on it in 5 seconds while the engine is running.

Do yourself a favor and get a tube of this:

This is truth.

I’d submit that a VW Type 1 (old Beetle) would be very suitable for the undeveloped world. I’d also give a WWII spec Jeep a pass.

The curves don’t have to be perfect geometric arcs, from what I understand with auto-x, it’s more about having a consistent course than a very specific layout. Attach a rolling dry line marker to a riding mower or ATV and you’d have a course drawn up in an hour or less.

It would take less time than laying out cones I’m sure.

Which are more confusing and less intuitive than a simple drawn path.

Course confusion could pretty easily be avoided by using some kind of temporary spray paint on the pavement (and which will wash away with rain or a garden hose), why don’t autocrosses and such do that?

My gf is on the heavier side, and she loves to ride pillion with me. I’ll never admit it to her, but the bike feels crazy light after she disembarks.

Pilots: Don’t want attention drawn to themselves.