This is perfect placement of an Onion article. Genius.

Porthos is wise. Or maybe 100% grille from the bumper back to the B-pillar, then 100% tailgate behind that.

If it’s international, take a different bank card (or have a different payment app, or whatever you millennials do). This is really helpful when you try to pay for fuel or a hotel in a new place and your payment isn’t accepted; maybe your bank’s anti-fraud controls are too twitchy, who knows? In the meantime you’re…

Yes! That would be pure Jalopnik.

Was it the W124 that introduced the headlight dial inherited by lots of iconic Mercedes (R129 and all the derivatives of W202/W203) which included left-sidelight and right-sidelight options...? Pull the knob out for fog lights too. The design was quite clever, although not completely intuitive. The first time I bought…

For people who love the combination of tail-lights and cake (a very exclusive list which may only include Jason), this old Škoda ad is essential viewing:

It’s not the prettiest car, but: Surely lot of cars of that era had similar overbite..? This probably seemed like a practical design in the days before ærodynamics.

It’s easily forgotten now, but Rover cars used to have an air of prestige. They were classy in the 1970s, in a way in which a 1990s Rover never could be.

You’re right. I graphed badly. Sorry!

All the best designs are from the 1980s. We should reïntroduce these graphs. Here’s a mockup of a depreciation graph for a Chevrolet:

I think the engine is housed between the front seats, in—you guessed it—a box, where it’s driving the rear wheels.

Twenty years ago - imagine the effect of inflation on car prices - the UK-market Kia Rio had one of the greatest car adverts of all time, with a Duran Duran soundtrack:

That’s a good point, but Australia, NZ, South Africa &c have similar tensions over “is”/”are” treatment of groups and corporate entities!

Edgyhal94 is wise.

Citroën have been putting a huge amount of effort into the separate DS brand but it’s still based on making a cheap little hatchback look more premium, with a recent pivot to CUVs which is only ten years behind the market. Fiat destroyed Lancia and nearly destroyed Alfa Romeo with this tactic, even in a much more…

The gods of car maintenance require a blood sacrifice, or at very least a brief scream of pain as you accidentally touch something that’s either red hot or 24 volts. This is part of the initiation.

That would be incredible!

That is a beautiful Lancia. Just look at those lines. They’re timeless.

The old VM Motori diesels aren’t so bad. Admittedly there can be problems with the heads and with the coolant circuit but neither of those are super-difficult to fix (OK, it’s harder than replacing a fuse or a bulb, but it’s easier than most of your Jeep projects. I dealt with both those issues in a VM Motori-powered X…

I don’t want to be that guy, but...