bobrayner
bobrayner
bobrayner

If it’s already been repaired with roofing tar and grandma’s carpet, I don’t think this the kind of concours-spec car which can only ever have OEM parts fitted by a factory-certified technician. A lot more string and solder and sealing-wax has probably been used under the hood. Getting the right parts doesn’t have to

That would make sense in the Muskverse, where the “short” bogeyman is manipulating the otherwise perfectly reasonable share prices and trying to crush Tesla, and stopping Musk doing his job of running a business.

This is Jalopnik; think about it like buying and selling cars, where there is an element of risk but it’s not simply rolling a dice.

I have seen similar tricks tried at auction. One buyer finds a car that they like, does something superficial to the car that looks scary to others before it reaches the podium, hence other potential bidders sit on their hands, and the saboteur gets a very cheap car.

There are several rallies which start in Europe and end somewhere more exotic in Central Asia or West Africa, which offer plenty of adventure without *too much* risk & cost.

The restrictions on numbers of taxis are something that taxi drivers themselves lobbied for. It’s classic guild behaviour; prevent new entry, bolster income & job security for the in-group, customers and would-be drivers are harmed but who cares about that? They’ve gotta protect their own. Cf the history of New York

I love it. The Defender is dying, the G-wagen has bizarrely turned into blinged-up urban transport for celebrities and drug-dealers, every other 4x4 has got fatter and softer and expensiver and turned into an SUV... but the Jimny is still an honest, basic 4x4 that will go wherever you want.

This is what happens if you try to save money by building a van on an old car platform, without widening the track:

Sometimes I can’t tell whether I’m reading a Torchinsky article, or an Onion article. This is a wonderful world.

Seats can be taken out of the car and used for picnic. It really is a great idea. Shame about modern safety standards making seats into heavy, tightly-integrated pieces of engineering...

Norfolk is very like Florida - flat and coastal - but with some slight differences. Norfolk is cold, damp, would make a really shitty Miami Vice location, and none of the meth addicts will survive winter. Hmm, maybe Norfolk isn’t *quite* like Florida.

I used to drive 500-1000 miles per week in a Mercedes CL. The running costs (both fuel and maintenance) were eyewatering.

Crime prevention is a genuine issue. People are used to seeing parcel-delivery vans, and waving them through.

It’s amazing. I love it.

TR7 exports to the USA were Britain’s punishment for ungrateful colonials.

The problem with forums is that they attract:

If a dealer lies in a posting, or puts in fake tags (my favourites are the Lexus dealers who flag the car as a Mercedes, hoping to attract a few more buyers), it’s totally justifiable and ethical to call them with a story about how you really need to buy that specific car, you have cash ready, but you’ve got to

Making it easier for owners to disable airbags? Sounds like a good way to increase the number of poor-decision-makers who are killed/maimed in crashes.

Miss Mercedes is wise.