Closed head injury is what was said earlier, i.e., concussion.

Among the technological “advancements” of the Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest cars (which included speed-sensitive windshield wipers back in 1983) were rear-only ABS brakes. I’ve owned five of these cars and have never been able to make the system activate on any of them. Most owners delete the system if doing…

I almost hate to ask this question, because it will either show I know more about this car than I have any right to know, or less than I should ...

Thank you for saying that. The motto of this site is “Drive Free or Die,” yet several featured articles seem to be about the opposite: mass transport, autonomous vehicles, and climate-change-related snark designed to look down the nose at anyone who would deign to want to drive an ICE-powered enthusiast’s car.

And, as…

Assuming the rest of the headline on that BMW says “How is it no one else can drive?”, I always get a chuckle of that stereotype, because I was at a Mitsubishi Starion/Chrysler Conquest club meet one year in northeast Alabama at the same time a BMW club was there. They treated us unmercifully. And then we find out the…

I would love to know the color code for that Barra Z. That’s the perfect copper color for a project I’m considering.

On a separate note, let me explain how to fix Mitsubishi in one word: Starion.

Well, two: Starion Relaunch.

There’s room for small sports cars out there right now. It’s sort of the automotive version of buying into those mutual funds that do the opposite of whatever the market is doing at the time.

The green one looks like a minion with wheels.

I’m not going to completely say “F the planet,” but I am going to say, without any reservation or apology whatsoever, that the race to electrify the automotive world regardless of range, charging infrastructure or even good ol’ customer choice, can go “F” itself.

I’m also dismayed by how Jalopnik in particular is…

Well, she’s treating you at the proper maturity level, that’s for sure.

I was about to say, get ready to see this really succeed in the truck market -- especially for companies buying work trucks. I hear business owners (especially contractors) gripe about the bells/whistles cost on trucks all the time.

The word “Brougham”, as pronounced by my aunt, came out very near to “Bram.”

What I can’t figure out is the rush to move starting the car over to a cell phone app.

At some point you have to own your own life.

No matter how shitty your upbringing was, once you hit adulthood you either choose to be shitty or not. No one gets a lifetime supply of excuses forever refilled by their Boomer/X/whatever parents.

My grandmother had that identical car. AM radio only, bench seat in the front, manual doors/windows, no A/C. And we lived in the South, where A/C is more important than the engine itself.

Never failed to start or run, never broke down while she was on the road. Stupid simple to work on, too. I miss that old thing.

It’s also not hard to call their position bullshit.

Scrolling through the comments, just some random observations here...

* My family has owned 10 Jaguars over the years. We have three right now, a 2010 XF Premium and two oldies (87 XJ6, 89 XJS). My XF is hands-down the best and most reliable car I’ve ever owned and it’s not close. I don’t always buy “problem children,”…

I just bought a Mitsubishi Starion, 88 model, the fourth I’ve owned. Even comparing it to my 2010 XF is like going to another world — the amount of engagement being so much more demanding in the older car. Whereas the XF almost drives itself through corners, the Starion must be led through, braking and shifting done…

Small objection: The picture used is of the refreshed model. Still technically first-generation but not the original original.

I wouldn’t care. We’re beyond that kind of stuff. And when Ford sold Jaguar Land Rover to Tata, things got better for JLR, especially Jag. I remember the then-president of Tata coming to the national Jaguar dealers meeting that year and asking for feedback, and the dealers’ first concern was, “we need a true sports…