Sweet. I’m curious about the US paperwork and will be following. Me and my wife have two cars in Malaysia. Neither of them are 25 year’s old yet. But here in Arizona I can have them titled as either UTVs (they can be made street legal here) or because the engine are so small; golf carts.

You forgot to ask the most important question. Which would make a better rallycross car? Both seem to still have hand operated emergency brakes (not that electric garbage) I have an idea for the next Jalopnik YouTube episode. 

Ohhh I have many. Me and friend used to go down to the Philadelphia Zoo area back when it was basically an empty wasteland of abandoned houses and crack dens. Philly is mostly a grid. There’s mostly a main street, a row of row houses. And an alley or something like that behind the houses. We’d go down to play “hide…

Well just think about it. Make a list of your, say, ten favorite cars. The “dream garage” we all have rotating around in our noggins. Now think if any of those cars wouldn’t be vastly improved (in fun, not always in performance) if it had about five or six extra inches of suspension travel, and some gravel proof mud…

I’ve said this a billion times. And it bares repeating. There is no car (not one) that isn’t made better by making a rally version.

Wow! Someone managed to improve the looks of this era of Durango. 

That’s one of them. I can’t remember the others. But there was another Russian brand. And I think Korean over the years. 

Sigh! I highly doubt this will come here. And I’m keeping this mentality until I can put my ass in a seat for a test drive, AND I see a DOT Monroney sticker on the window.

I replaced a bad electrical component in my car that was surprisingly cheap to buy. but if I had a professional do it would have cost me roughly the GDP of half of South America. (Pats head and laughs in former Saab ownership)    

I was a “professional” auto tech for a few decades. I bought one of these when I was about 19 at Sears. I still have it. It still works. I however replaced it in usage when I was a tech with a carbide countersink bit. Because Pennsylvania winters and little screws to hold rotors in place during the factory assembly,…

Didn’t like? Ehh, it’s more bitterly disappointed. They had such an opportunity. And they just shit all over it. You can talk of paradigm shifts and regime changes all you want. If they did it correctly in the first place all of us would now have some used cars and maybe something worth buying at the dealer (imagine a…

I love the idea of taking something and using it not for it’s intended purpose. And if I had a free mower and some free time I would probably do this.

So Rodger Smith is person we can blame for the half finished abortion that was Saturn? History lessons aside GM just never made a competitive vehicle. They started in 1979 (I think) and didn’t release a vehicle until the 90's. And those first products (though fun and inexpensive) seemed to aiming for Toyota. In the…

If that plate is solid. It probably weighed about 60 tons. The “straps” for front to back movements are 4x4 square tubes. 

Close. Just need some rear controls. Raise the frontend a bit. Pull back the rake. Slightly smaller front wheel. Basically they need ot make the streetfigher. Or whatever the hell they named it.

Well I guess that explains why there’s so many Saturn dealers out there..... Oh wait.

I’ve been there. It mostly involves many BBQs at the dealership and explaining to customers their cars though new. Are falling apart already. Until they were just rebadged Opel’s.

That’s a little high by a grand or so. But it’s a perfect candidate for this.

If I had 40Gs I could spend on a motorcycle, I would have bough one of these in a second. On the plus side you can still buy the engine and transmission. On the minus side, it still costs about 20 grand.

Fun fact. The only death from that bridge collapsing is a dog in that car you see.