I am not sorry to insult Richard Petty.

My unpopular (around here) car opinion is that German car reliability CANNOT be fixed by good maintenance. All car brands have plenty of schlubs who buy them and don’t maintain them, or do maintain them. It all averages out. And yet German cars, speaking broadly, do not manage to be as reliable as others. Some German…

This has always been the challenge of the Germans and it’s not new. Look at the ways German, American, British, and Japanese engineers approach a problem.

The only counterpoint worth saying, then, is simple and vulgar: Richard Petty, go fuck yourself.

I’ll even take it a step further: modern cars are too fast and too powerful for 99% of what enthusiasts do.

german reliability is the biggest farce ever sold to the american public

I think modern cars are too fast and powerful for 99% of what most people do.

“German Quality” - It’s a warning.

“German Quality”, i know people still swear by it and live buy. They think that everything German is built to last. But i just dont buy it and its just not true. Its more marketing than any actual quality if you ask me.

3600 lbs is light for an AWD sedan that size. Most others are close to 4000 lbs.

You ever seen a sunburnt fish? Makes you think.

It’s preposterous, calming down, things of that nature.

A.C. Green, meanwhile, is fine with it.

Structural engineer here. The fact that this is the largest of the 3 (apparent) braces running across the short axis of the car to stiffen the frame rails tells me it has the most load on it (yes real engineering-ish). I’m having a hard time orienting the pictures with each other but regardless: corners are always the…

At ESPN Deportes his job is to provide his journalistic services in Spanish. At ESPN, it’s to do it in English. He did that poorly last night.

Why does it seem more and more that yesterdays Reddit becomes todays Jalopnik

The older they are the better looking to me.

Ditto for Jaguar. Does any Jaguar, absent badging, look like a Jaguar?