Tom- I really appreciate these columns. While not as lurid as some other Jalop features, this stuff is genuinely useful.

Just to clarify something. If you pursue a diminished value claim, it is based on the loss of retail value. No one is going to care that a dealer is raking you over the coals on trade in. That same dealer who is low balling your trade in is likely to price the vehicle at full retail value for sale (or send it to…

I instead want to take this time to point out how good the 1 series looks on style 313Ms.

This is nothing new. For how many years after Europe adopted quartz-halogen headlight bulbs did the USA continue to mandate sealed beam units?

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Except they shut off when other cars are around unlike true adaptive ones which are light years better. BMW has the best headlights on the market. If or whomever approves full functionality here I'll be smiling while using my laser lights all night long 

Ehhh, i dunno man. That 3.0L Twin Turbo with 400 hp.

What?? No speakers in the seats to rumble my butt? No digital dash? All they kept was the two tone paint but they got it screwed up? Sorry but the last 50th AE Z was way cooler. (50th Anniversary of Datsun/Nissan not the Z)

Da fuq? No. This is half assing it. They should have gone (Planters) nuts with a Paul Newman/Bob Sharp scheme:

You guys really need to get your union to negotiate for some better vision insurance benefits...

But...this is ugly. The red going over the top of the door frames with the white roof and red hood just looks dumb

Slapping a different color body panel on the car doesn't make it look good. It makes it look like a decade old car that was wrecked by someone too cheap to have a proper repair done and just slapped the cheapest junkyard part on to get rolling again. It looks lazy.

I don’t blame you, mostly because the base Mustang GT interior (and base 4 cylinder Mustang interior for that matter) looks like shit. If you can’t afford a nicer GT I’d rather get a nicer Ecoboost  

Cool story.

Try it. Generally, yes, there are a lot of “fish in the sea”, as it were.

I had an 11 year old car I didn’t own free and clear.  I made payments because the interest rate was so low it was like free money.  And I kept up with all the maintenance quite easily.  When I found an interested buyer I made arrangements to pay it off and have the title sent to me.  Sure, there was an extra step,…

The mortgage vs used car lein situation is a false equivalence. When you buy a home, there is an extremely well known process for handling every step of the transaction, from inspecting the home through to clearing the title. You even get insurance to protect you from title issues. When’s the last time you bought…

That’s the issue right there. Someone who can’t own an 11 year old car free and clear is also someone who doesn’t pay to keep up the maintenance on said 11 year old car. 

90% of the people commenting about the lien being a deal-breaker currently have a lien against their car. Do the sale at the bank instead of the Home Depot parking lot and you're done. That's it. 

Well the Monte/Beta/037/Delta all used the Fiat Lampredi Twin Cam. Now Lancia just didn’t plug and play, that’s not Lancia. They mounted it transversely for better weight distribution. They also tweaked it up (The Lampredi is known for it’s ability to be modified) by advancing timing among other things to get more…