Obviously, you’ve never had the misfortune of trying to test drive a vehicle that had absolutely the wrong transmission installed. Until you do, you’ll not understand.

Fairly cheap motorized and enclosed trikes were a thing in that period, if you weren’t going after a knockoff of a Vespa scooter. The Citroën Prototype C, FMR Tg500, Fuldamobil, Heinkel Kabine, Isetta, Messerschmitt KR175, KR200 and KR250, Peel P50, Peel Trident,Trojan 200 and Kleinschnittger F125 were all similar…

Many years ago, that very practice got me a speeding ticket for briefly doing 30 over the speed limit in a 50 mph zone.

It took a few runs through the video before things started making sense. After the wrong way truck passed, I notice the guard rail wasn’t in ruins anywhere ahead to show it had driven through from the other side of the road.

And exactly how many vehicles have you driven that could go without a transmission? Direct drive really doesn’t work once you pass a certain weight limit. Pass that and you end up stalling and damaging the vehicle instead.

See? When you don’t feed your Mustang a proper diet of pedestrians, it will eventually start trying to eat anything else on the road. And usually fail.

Survives that leap only to nearly fall through the fake sunroof on the flimsy top of the vehicle. LOL

Many years ago, I attended races at that track a few times. Made for a nice little weekend getaway not too far from home.

There is ALWAYS someone in the year that should have been cut long ago. When I was in 9th grade (way back in the early 80's), we had a 23-year-old 9th grader in the Junior High. I only learned of his existence because he was in my health class. It was his final year of school before mandatory schooling ended (NJ had…

Most people have zero clue of the purpose of tariffs, let alone how they work, as the US press has been demonstrating for many, many months.

And thus, Jalopnik started its own “entitled parents” section to compete with reddit. Because that sheriff’s deputy fits the bill.

I see a less than thorough or accurate attempt at an 80's Monte Carlo.

How exactly are those cassette adapters obsolete? Those FM cigarette lighter adapters will inevitably run into interference from existing radio stations, so I need something that lets me plug in MP3 player into a factory standard radio. The 6-disc cartridge-based CD player won’t play MP3 files off disc and I like…

They protected the tapes, not the VCR. Both audio a video cassette players had the same fatal flaw - there were mechanical parts the players inserted into the path of the tape, which could result in a tape-destroying snag when the tape was run at speeds higher than playback speed. These, on the other hand, just spun…

So many people and insurance companies give us NJ drivers crap without ever considering for a moment that our problem is the fact that drunken morons like the one in the news story head for our shore towns from NY, PA, DE and MD for about 8 months out of every year.

I’m not surprised it can reach 20 MPH as a top speed. What I’m curious about is how much time it takes to finally reach that top speed. After all, that is why motor vehicles use transmissions in the drive train - it allows the vehicle to eventually reach a speed far greater that it could with straight engine RPMs…

LOL. My first thought there is... “Have fun finding a decent replacement exhaust kit.” The aftermarket stuff is mild steel garbage that lasts maybe 18 months if you’re lucky. My original exhaust rusted out after 18 years and I have dealt with nearly annual replacement for more than a half decade now. I’m thinking…

I’ve got a 1994 Accord and two spare engines. I’ve driven nearly 2.5 miles for every miles this guy has driven and I swap motors about every 500k. They are in a perpetual state of 1 driving and 2 rebuilding. Picked up the spare engines from a couple of insurance wrecks.

Sorry, but NJ is NOT a desolate part of the world. Long, LONG before this even became a thing in CA, we had our first official facilities dedicated to getting racing and sideshows off the street. You pay a fee, you get to drag or race or drive in silly tire-burning circles, and in return you don’t have to worry about…

Hell, I can go into downtown Camden NJ and buy a copy off a sidewalk vendor in front of the transit center. In full sight of security cameras and transit and city cops!