Do you have any idea how insane the Japanese justice system or prison system is?

You know how this works though. When you see someone put the pizza on top of the loaded Chinese plate, that’s a man inviting chaos into his life.

My mother once went to a RHPS screening in the 80s when she was in college, and when she saw the movie at blockbuster she rented it to watch with me, her straight and not-interested-in-theater-arts teenaged son. Between her inexplicable memories of it and my complete unfamiliarity with the culture around it, it was a…

It’s completely fine as a smoking alternative or method to wean oneself off smokes, but since I mostly post on jalopnik my personal favorite completely true stereotype is the Subaru WRX STI driver (boy racer with a big spoiler and tinted windows) who rolls down his window at stoplights and blows a HUGE cloud of vape…

Well, they had other options at the time that would have paid similarly.  The whole thing with the show was fat old idiots driving glamorous cars and the soundtrack usage really was one of the most important things about how it became such a huge hit series in the 00s.  The humor and the chemistry came later on, watch…

Haven’t the faintest, it’s a 30+ year old article which, as far as I can tell, was OCR’d like those old newspaper articles you can find on the NYT or WP websites.  Some funky computer-scanning spelling/grammar errors here and there.

By the way, if you or anyone else hasn’t read this, it’s a classic:

You’d hope so, an honorable death.

Who wouldn’t?

I don’t know why anyone would watch it on BBCA when they replace all of the music, which they’re licensed to broadcast in the UK, with some horrible c-rank background crap. Kills the whole vibe of the show.

It was the rave years in Europe, so everything was colorful.

I don’t think they ever made a 4x4 Polo. Closest little hatchback models that were available in the US were the ultra-rare Mazda 323 GTX, most of which have rusted away I think, and the Civic Wagon RT4WD, most of which probably also suffered the same fate. The Fiat Panda 4x4 can be imported now and is extremely…

I mentioned above that Skoda had similar importation bans for a long time to SEAT, but the other thing about VW sub-brands is that everywhere else on earth, they’re relatively inexpensive. For some reason, they try to price them as a premium product in the US, so cheaper VWs would undercut their own sales, which…

SEAT was banned from importation into the US due to Franco, as I recall, and for most of the post-war years they were mostly making rebadged FIATs which we already got anyway, so they never built a brand here and now they mostly make less-expensive versions of VWs. The era to have started importing SEATs to the US…

Do people not own brooms anymore?  I mean, I’ve got my brush/scraper in the car but the initial stage of shoving the snow off of things is a lot easier when you’ve got a long house broom and you can use both hands.  Depending on snow depth, you can also clear it a bit in front of the car to help you get out once the…

My favorite unbelievably stupid and wildly incorrect method that I’ve heard on more than one occasion is to throw hot or boiling water on it.

It seems like an ideal trade-off between the crew cab (which always has a too-small bed) and a regular truck with a longer bed, but I wonder what the effect is.  It’s not as bad as, say, making it a convertable, but it does look like it might be a bit... floppy.

Oh if you want good reading, Grassroots Motorsport. It costs like twenty five bucks a year or something but it’s a print magazine and they have a very good internet forum.  It’s really small-time print media though so if you ever call them you’ll probably wind up talking to an intern actually in their offices in…

thetruthaboutcars but don’t delve into the comments on that one, articles are fine. There are more but I can never remember them until someone links them or I stumble on to them, which usually isn’t a problem because they don’t update much. There aren’t many straight up car blogs out there though, which is why it’s…