Surely Hyundai and Kia were already doing this...

Confession: When I was younger and insecure, I was proud of my first Mercedes. Maybe a little too proud. A couple of guys in the office were dropping unsubtle hints about what they drove, so I went one step beyond the “casually leaving your keys on the desk with the logo facing upwards” stage; I added Mercedes…

Yes! We need a whole new Jalopnik article on Scandinavian cargo-Porsches.

Daily driver:

Good point!

There are a lot of Porsche pickups “in the wild”. One reason is that some European countries have historically had lower taxes for work vehicles than for luxury vehicles, so some 928/944/968 buyers would save money by having custom bodywork done, which turns their “luxury” car into something that qualifies as a van or…

I think it depends on local geography & climate. To some folk, “offroad” means rocks, drier ground, and the grip is usually good enough that they can rely on low-range. To other folk, especially in Northern Europe, “offroad” tends to mean slippery mud and occasionally snow/ice; if you can easily wheelspin in a normal 1…

For you and me, maybe, the whole point of a bike is to work hard. But for a lot of other people the electric assistance helps them get from A to B, and if they didn’t have it they probably wouldn’t get on a bike at all. Especially during the recent lockdown, shops around here have sold out of electric bikes. It warms…

I love this. Mitsuoka are awesome. I’d love to buy one, but it’s been a moot point since my girlfriend banned me from buying a Flying Pug.

That’s not exactly true, is it? They just have a parent company with a different name which owns Detroit Diesel, Mitsubishi Fuso, Setra, Smart, Maybach, and so on. No different to VAG owning Audi, Bentley, MAN, and so on. Both groups seek the same synergies, sharing technologies and supply-chains and service centres…

People used to say the Cayenne was ugly, but it kept Porsche in the sportscar market. Mercedes itself would have gone into a death-spiral years ago if it wasn’t for models in popular niches that internet-purists derided, like the W163 or the W168. Now, about the Urus...

Didn’t early “Twin Engine” Volvos do something similar? But with the internal combustion engine driving front wheels, and electric rear. (I think Volvo have shifted towards an electric motor “upstream” of the gearbox, which opens up different possibilities).

This is everything that Jalopnik loves. Jeep XJ with a Peugeot manual gearbox, purple and gold paint, it’s even a shooting brake of sorts. The engine is a little bit dull, but we could fix that by swapping in a diesel rotary.

Could you replace the seats? Like the aftermarket tilting/swivelling seats that convert into beds, for camper conversions of Vitos and Transits &c. It’s probably not possible to reüse exactly the same seat design, but if a similar convertible seat could be fitted, you might just need a tent to provide some extra…

The final insult: In many markets, the Jeep Liberty (KJ) was rebranded as the Cherokee, trampling all over the memory of a perfectly good XJ.

That is amazing. Why hasn’t there been a Jalopnik article about this? A 1970s shooting-brake camper is gloriously retro and ugly and cool in all the right ways.

That’s a terrible car in a beautiful shade of green. We need more greens like that.

What kind of dystopian consumer-rights nightmare do you live in, that you can see a price on the internet but then you can’t buy the product for that price when you go instore?