Given the pillorying that’s occurring in this comments section, I won’t pile on. It’s a jalop rite of passage to get soaked once on a dealer service: mine was a $950 routine 60k service maintenance on my Altima back before I knew much about cars (yes, I’m a self-proclaimed jalop and drive an Altima. Fight me).

I remember once reading that a new Nissan Versa makes a great case for buying a used Camry/Accord. So here’s my Bimmer edition of that dilemma: given the shared parts between this and an i3, is this actually worthwhile over a used i3?

Welcome to how I’ve treated the last 40k miles of TPMS lights and steering wheel chatter in my current ride :)

No more $500 TPMS replacements? *dobby is free*

...Is A Panserbjørn

If you’re in your 20s, “more than 50 years ago” might seem like a long time.

Lazy screen implementation is usually my cue that the automaker was adding value for themselves rather than for the customer.

I’m mostly disappointed that “Oh Shit These Bitches Are Pink” wasn’t your last published work at Jalopnik.

Time To Find Out What’s More Exciting: 575 HP Or Drum Brakes And No Airbags

Fifth Gear: Living in Denver, there are hordes of luxury SUVs everywhere. Maybe it’s JLR’s Upper Middle Class Self-Styled Aristocrat-targeting marketing angle, but consistently the only demographic that’s shitty to me in traffic is drivers of Land Rovers. I’m entirely OK with them fading away (but please keep Jaguar…

Wait wait hold up. How is the parking brake trick any different from just staying on your brakes while you shift to Park, as I assume literally everyone does? 1) Apply brakes to stop. 2) Shift into P (momentum transfers to all brakes). 3) Engage park brake. 4) Let off brake pedal. 5) Celebrate another successful…

I’ll take interesting and weird-looking over boring every day.

Honda Element. Fight me.

David, I say this as someone with a genuine concern for your well-being: thank the automotive gods it’s physically impossible for you to drive a clapped-out shitbox from Michigan to Germany to pick up a $500 “holy grail” minivan. 

This scorching take occupies a weird middle ground between viscerally horrifying and pleasingly sensible, and I think it's broken my brain.

Shopping for an EV earlier this year made me realize that long-range EVs make zero sense given our current infrastructure. There will ALWAYS be a semi-routine case where the range is inadequate, at which point you’re back to needing two vehicles; if your daily isn't lugging around 100kWH of batteries, that's perfectly…

I damn near died on I-70 (Eisenhower Tunnel, west side) the weekend you were in town to pick that Jeep up. On top of a harebrained plan,you picked quite the nasty weather weekend to do this. Really looking forward to the full account of what happened.

Thanks for mixing it up here in the comment section. The side by side with basic models definitely provides much-needed context for this otherwise-excellent review.

Driving through the San Bernardino mountains around dusk this August, I see a Subaru idling in a turnoff and it just looks...wrong. Too long to be an impreza, too low to be an Outback.

Don’t mind me, I’m just hanging out in the comment section to peanut gallery everyone who missed the satire.