I’ve come to find out that having a shitbox car is a luxury only for the middle class. I’m middle class and daily drive an BMW e46. If I break down, my workplace is understanding. I can say “having car trouble..” and its all good. I have time and money to fix it myself, or I can take it to a shop.

As a fellow Mazda stan, I’m keeping my hopes high. There’s been a test mule based on an RX-8 sneaking around the last year or so, and with Toyota likely looking for a RWD partner to replace their aging Lexus platforms, this seems more and more plausible. If this joint venture ends up anything like how Toyota worked…

Obligatory. 

Jalopnik is a site about cars and the people that love them. The fucking President of the United States addresses a tweet to people who “like automobiles.” Those are cars. The tweet, again from the President, states things that cannot be proven as true regarding cars and car ownership by Americans. It’s hard to see…

In the immortal words of Michael Bolton...

I too watched Doug DeMuro’s latest video.

$35k will get you into an early Panamera. Can be had with a V6, it’ll baby, and properly maintained will last quite a while. Also, it’s a hatchback and will hold quite a bit of gear for roadtripping. You’ll love driving it almost as much as you’ll love the other associates wondering how you’re doing so well.

leave it to GM to be two decades behind itself.

Hard to be sneaky with a tow truck.

Lancia 6X6 LWB

“That’s one huge load of BS.”

Who ever said 180 hp in a mazda 6 was fast? Pretty sure no one. The bigger or turbo motor is where it’s at. People praise the 180hp in the miata, but, like everyone is saying, that’s much smaller car.

Holy shit, are you ACTUALLY working today? As in, apparently the only person in the Jalopnik office, since every other post so far seems to be just reposted crap from sometime in the last 6 months? So far we’ve got a story on the Iran missile crisis from January (including the first sentence “yesterday Iran launched a…

It’s still all BMW including the 4 cylinder.

Well in that case....

Cheap shot in the headline, especially considering emissions regulations were largely responsible for the demise of the rotary engine.

Counterpoint: Miatas are low volume and have less vehicles to spread development costs across on their unique platform. Mazda is not exactly swimming in cash. Miatas have no direct competition in the small RWD convertible department.

If losing a rotary is inevitable, an Inline 6 is at least an acceptable consolation. I’m not a big rotary nerd, I just think they sound cool and I appreciate things that are different. But I also recognize it might just be a concept that will never pan out to the extent that piston engines have.

Get a leftover 2019 beige Corolla.

Yeah, the women are asleep...