Green (the brown of colors that aren’t brown). Manual. Occasionally diesel. Wagon (wagen?).

David needs to wade into the amazing world of 90s Japanese sports cars; especially coming from Jeeps, everything will feel like a McLaren from the cockpit. I finally got an NA Miata this year, and the driving experience is exactly what David got from the MR2, but at a slightly lower entry cost.

*Midnight Club has entered the chat*

I find it hilarious that the same company responsible for the current-gen Silverado’s appearance is worried about “brand image.” 

Company: We still offer the Blip feature! It’s just hard to find, on a niche configuration .

I used to work as a production support engineer in the automotive world and...yeah, you just described a monthly occurrence on the job. Take your well-deserved star. 

Just to ruin your day more, the rear view looks like the Aston is giving birth to an old-school Mustang.

It might be a New England/Colorado/Pacific Northwest thing. Out here in CO, folks with E-Class money tend to go with a loaded 4Runner or Outback 3.6R.

Mate, you need this Daihatsu Rocky-shaped bundle of fun from the Australian domestic market. I spotted this particular one on Marketplace for $4500 in my neck of the woods.

You haven’t been lied to. Per the article, every vehicle still needs to go through internal crash testing, to federal standards, by the OEM. And that shit is expensive.

On these pages, the Rebel 770s—chromier, plusher, lusher than the 550s.

Normally, the appeal of cybercrime is that it doesn’t involve travel at all — usually attacks like this are attempted remotely, from the safety of being half a world away.

David, I get such thrilling proud dad vibes from watching you combine Jeeps with some semblance of a love life.

But don’t you just love when your car is festooned with visual reminders of the company’s vaguely-xenophobic Great Recession-era “Imported from America” ad campaign?

Pro tip, the new Firefox update on Android made Jalopnik (including comments) usable again as of yesterday for me. 

My ride in high school was an ‘01 Odyssey with these same powered vent windows, which you call “not the most useful feature.”

Look at a modern Chevrolet or Lexus and tell me, with a straight face, that the monstrosities coming off the production line are exactly what the designer intended, rather than the sea of engineers, accountants, PMs, and dimwitted VPs that stand between the designer and the final product. 

At least some of that issue can be traced back to routine maintenance. On my Jatco-equipped ‘09 Altima, the manual implies that the CVT is lifetime fill, with transmission fluid changes never mentioned in the 120k-mile service schedule. But in the towing section, there’s a note that all vehicles require automatic…

Jalopnik staff, from the 9th-dimension Blog Wormhole stashed inside a long-forgotten BMC Mini concept’s frunk: “Kristen Lee, come back. We even made a We Miss You sandwich”

Yeah...it’s rough. Especially the concepts and Auto-Union/subsidiary company stuff. I don’t have a chance in hell of getting even a quarter of these right, but it’s still been a magnificent excuse to read up on interesting automotive history and learn about some new cars.