I don’t either, but I realize that if there were no landlords and no rentals, I would never have been able to leave my parents house in my god-forsaken-bible-thumping-meth-riddled-backwater-impoverished hometown. There’s no way I could have ever made enough money there to buy a home in any city, without having a job…

The problem with Marxist property principles is resources. When property is cost-free, everyone wants to live in the same few places and there isn’t the capacity to handle that.

I don’t get this piece, despite being an ultra-progressive tenant’s rights advocate myself. If we abolished rent and required solely homeownership (whether purchased or granted to current residents), it would fuck over most poor and middle class people who don’t already live in cities.

I’ve had good luck calling the dealers that appear on the Carfax and asking about warranty work. I did this on my BMW and confirmed that a very expensive fatal flaw had NOT been fixed. So I negotiated $1500 more off the car, which is almost exactly what it cost me to replace the fatal flaw a month later. 

I also did a lot of research on this generation JGC for a friend who was deadset on buying a used one (despite my recommendations). From my research, the one model you should absolutely avoid at all costs is the 2011 JGC Overland Summit 5.7l 4WD.

My mom had an identical one, but in the sexy brown on brown combo. It was a piece of shit from the start and needed repairs every couple of months for something electronic (and occasionally mechanical). There was an issue causing the Blind Spot monitor to constantly ding and they never found the source of the issue,…

Lots of them. Here is one for $38k with under 20k miles

XC90 T8 Hybrid. Luxurious, practical, fast... Plug in hybrid fuel economy.

Update: Fiat-Ferrari is now going to build ventilators. You should update your slam piece with facts. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ventilators-italy/exclusive-ferrari-and-fiat-look-at-helping-italy-make-ventilators-in-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN2162YT

Everyone is splitting hairs in the crossover category. This is slightly larger and higher quality than the Trax. Think of the Trax and the Equinox as the discount models and the Trailblazer and Blazer as the "stylish, premium" models... It's a tough market out there. 

What percentage of your net worth did you donate to coronavirus? Do you think the moral superiority of your donation will save more lives than 10M EUR will?

I really like this, but they only offer it on the base model. No sunroof or real leather seats with the manual. 

As someone who spends a lot of time in Brazil, I promise you that any car produced there for that market is an utter piece of shit. Extremely high taxes and import duties means that companies need to produce in the country if they want the cars to be affordable. So companies dump old chassis and tooling there with…

I agree. And it would be pretty damn hard to build a truck that feels cheaper and drives worse than the new Wrangler. 

What do you need to watch out for on these? Not that I’m considering this one or anything... but I am.

Props don’t fail though. I’ve replaced enough struts on ten year old Audis and VWs to feel disenchanted by them. 

Jalopnik is an opinion blog. Every article is heavily opinionated and they don’t pretend to be “bipartisan”, whatever that would even mean in the car world.

I welcome an alternative to the Wrangler. I rented a brand new 2020 Wrangler (with under 20 miles) for a road trip. It still drives like crap on the highway and has an extremely cheap and rattly interior.

For the manual, that got me thinking... What if the electric motor is wedged between the clutch and the engine. Engine shuts off at stop and the electric motor starts acceleration and low speed driving. The motor also restarts the ICE for more power if they accelerate hard or pass a certain speed.

This is why they changed it. It clashes with modern design practices. Notice the logo looks like rounded metal with a light shining on it. That’s a very 90s approach to digital design. They just made it compatible with digital medium. Apple did the same thing.