I was once pulled over TWICE in one day, in California, for “expired” registration stickers. I was home from college, driving my mom’s suburban. She had the new sticker in the center console and hadn’t yet stuck it on the plates. The first officer gave me a warning. The second officer, no more than ten minutes later,…

I will be in the market for a new car next year, and I agree, since we don’t get the Mazda 6 Wagon, this is the next best thing. I likely will buy one, although I wish it didn’t come with the black plastic around the fenders.

This is true of most Subaru’s I’ve driven. Just leave the lights on all the time and they turn off when you shut off the ignition. In my Xterra (no auto-lights), the lights will stay on even with the ignition off (but it does warn you with loud chimes).

My mother’s 2001 suburban, and my 1998 Oldsmobile Intrigue (GM centric family) operated in this manner. In the Suburban, there was only Auto/Park/On, but if you triple pressed (may have been double, can’t remember) the interior dome light switch, the headlamps/tail-lamps would turn off. We didn’t figure that out until…

I know the design hasn’t changed much, but the exterior is screaming “Jetta” to me. Especially the head-on shot of the red sedan, it looks very GLI. For some reason IMO, the S6 looks much, much better.

I call them muggles. It’s easy, and well-known enough that most people gleam the meaning from context without me having to explain.

I have some serious lust for this car. Something about it just really tickles my fancy, more than any other automobile. I’d say this an the Chevy SS are at the top of my list.

I like the idea of a Reliant Robin (that doesn’t actually roll over constantly), but I know that’d be seen as feeding off of Top Gear.

Based purely on the visuals (everyone else is doing a better job than I could with the possible measurements), it looks like a recent model Ford Focus sedan. Especially the headlights, the rising beltline, and the chrome accent along the side reaching the tail lights. My two cents.

It’s a Hellcamino

That looks great and all, but what I’d still really like to see is the European Mazda 6 Wagon make it over here. Preferably with AWD, a manual and their turbo-4, though even if it were just the NA 2.5 from the 6 sedan I’d still buy it in a heartbeat. Heck, even if it stayed FWD I’d still buy it, as long as it came…

I’ve never personally had more than one car from any brand, so I’m not particularly loyal. The one exception is Chevy, because I grew up with Suburbans/Silverados, and my family will keep buying them regardless of how silly they have become, I love them.

I’m not an engineer and have no science background, so feel free to point out why this wouldn’t work, but couldn’t those fuel economy tests be improved by also providing a minimum fuel economy? As in, flog the s*** out of it during testing, and then assign an MPG or Gal/100 miles rating as the minimum? Regardless…

There are a tonne of celebrity cameos in that movie (just re-watched last night). Victoria Beckham, Gwen Stefani, David Bowie, Sandra Bernhard, Donald Trump, etc.

Even simple trucks are complex. My ‘04 Xterra requires you to remove the entire front grill and bumper assembly to change the f***ing parking light! Not the blinker or headlights, luckily, and pretty much the whole front end is plastic held on with a few bolts, but still, it’s enough of a pain that I’ve had a burned…

The best “in-car” safety feature I can think of is an attentive, capable driver. That being said, I think the best idea is for driving instruction and tests to be much, much more thorough.

There are only three states I see that picked a liquor I’d actually drink. CT, WA, & VA. What baffles me is that not a single state picked a gin as their favorite! How can Hendrick’s not be on that list?! Or at least Tanqueray.

Someone smart on Jalopnik needs to explain this to me. If I understand correctly.

This makes me sad, but I’m biased. My ‘04 Xterra has been bulletproof, I’m keeping it forever! May not be the best at what it does, but you can’t fault the practicality and reliability. It was one of the last simple, plucky, honest vehicles.

I watched the whole video, no idea what happened. I couldn’t stop gawking at Andrew and Doug’s choice of shoes.