I helped someone who was struggling to put the top up on their spouse’s Wrangler at a gas station. Maybe with a lot of practice (possibly the rest of your relative’s life), you can make it look easy. My condolences to the OP and family.

Sorry to hear about this situation. Love to hear that she is getting a convertible like she’s always wanted though. That’s really awesome.

I’d recommend a BMW Z4. You can pick one up from Carvana (and have it delivered!) for $25K and it’s got a hard top for added security and better comfort in the winter. This one is a…

Man, these are some boring convertibles. She should get a Boxster or a 996 Cabriolet.  

A lot of people here sure don’t seem to know what old trucks cost these days.

Trick question. The driver is wearing neither blue jeans nor boots; therefore he is not a cowboy.

Where is the driver? Or is this a right hand drive Beetle?

I still find it a bit depressing that there are auto enthusiasts who think this way, at all. I’d thought the multifaceted weirdnesses of Jalopnik—the Radwood specials, the NPCP polls, the design foci, the apparent appreciation—meant people’d evolved out of the whole “if it’s not hard, fast, and loud, it’s for the…

being a gearhead manifests itself differently for everyone, but for myself and several of my friends it all started with being able to identify every single last vehicle on the road by heart as a kid. this type of mis-badging would have driven seven-year-old me bonkers.

wooosh

Factory error.  Gonna be worth a lot at Barrett-Jackson someday, but you’ll have to keep a lot of documentation to set it apart from all the inevitable clones.

I mean, if I had a dollar for every time we received a Sierra or Yukon with Chevy parts on it (door sills, wheels, trim pieces, etc.) I could afford to buy one.

Yeah, I never got that logic. They only get credits because they sell BEVs (they get none if they don’t), and having the credits allows them to sell the cars at a lower price than otherwise (which they obviously account for in setting pricing). People don’t exclude other tax credits from the profits of automakers, not…

These also had a nickname in the US. I’ve heard they have been called “b$%ch baskets” due to the girls that used to drive them all the time in the 80's.

3rd Gear: I imagine a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers have moved over to gig economy delivery services instead.

You expected someone attractive? 

Buying shitty cars, sure. Working on shitty cars, okay. But he’s surprisingly good at it. He gets those zombies running, somehow. Gotta give credit where it’s due, cranky.

This car is pointed squarely at me.

They may call a friend who’s got a truck for a little pull — after all, they’re barely stuck — and when they come and don’t find the recovery hook, what do they do?

Because hybrid systems are less up front cost than a diesel engine and provide a much bigger benefit over the lifetime of the vehicle. Diesel engines are enormously expensive and have tons more maintenance costs.  If your going to build an eco focused vehicle it is going to be hybrid or electric or a phev.   

2020 leftover Leafs with the 150-mile range are crazy, crazy cheap if you can use one.