Re: 2013 Miata with 51k miles.

There’s a semi-retired, part-time parts guy at our local AutoZone who pretty much does the same thing. Great dude. He drives his ‘62 Vette, unrestored, to the AutoZone in a questionable neighborhood and just parks it outside for a few hours while he fetches brake pads and sundries for other shadetree mechanics. Most…

Every single vehicle on the train is going to be scrapped. Pour one out on Copart.

The Cutlass Supreme was the best-selling car in America until 1987. Then the Honda Accord and Ford Taurus battled it out through the late ‘90s when FWD sedans, minivans, and truck-based SUVs became the hauler of choice. These were nice cars back then. Velour seats, tasteful wood and chrome, and parents loved the coupes…

5th gear: Most women I know, including my wife, hate getting gas for the car. It’s really inconvenient, smells bad, and nobody wants to break a nail on the pump handle or drip gas from the nozzle on their shoes. Electric cars you can plug in every night when you get home should be a clear winner.

I’m not sure if the author was actually alive in the 70s and 80s to recall any of the history cited in his article, but if “Senior Reporter” means anything, I would hope that he was. Parsing words from a WaPost article to create a hit piece on someone who factually saved and brought American automobile manufacturing…

Ram is flooding the market with Classics that won’t hold their value on the used market. Our local FCA lot has 2019 2wd Hemi Classics going for $20k out the door with all the cash they’re putting on the hood. The redesigned model is going for $33k after rebates, which is about what Chevy is doing on both versions of…

Tachometer on an automatic transmission. Yet they provide a warning light for coolant temp and oil pressure.

If you want to employ Americans with your car purchases, Honda and Toyota are your best bet, even compared to American companies.

It’s still 145,000 lbs. (empty) sitting on the landing gear, pushing into the pavement on three points of contact.

I’m pretty sure the only people who think J.D. Power results are a punchline are Jalopnik staff and Mahk fans. Auto manufacturers take them seriously because they demonstrate the initial quality of the vehicle after assembly. CU and other journalism-based reports focus on things that have nothing to do with the…

They’re going to have fun rebuilding that parking lot once the planes are allowed to fly again. If they sit through the summer, the asphalt will melt around the tires into neat divots that will prevent the planes from moving. Hopefully they de-fueled the aircraft to reduce the standing weight, but asphalt parking lots…

Hot take: Until ARM makes a SATA compatible SoC, this will never replace an x86-based desktop. You can load as much RAM as you want on this thing, but keeping primary storage based on an SD card is ridiculous. Yeah, I know you can add SATA storage with a USB adapter—it’s still a kludge and not fast or reliable enough…

Easy. The engines were made to different specifications for trucks, Corvette, and Cadillac, and were usually machined and assembled in different engine plants. Those engines usually had four-bolt mains, as opposed to two on the Malibu-spec engine, hydraulic lifters, forged pistons, and those vehicles usually had…

After watching the video, I think she probably should have reached out to Smyth Performance for advice on cutting up the vehicle and reinforcing it for the conversion. That’s the shop that sells ute conversion kits for Chargers, A4s, Jettas, and Beetles. They probably would have loved to help out if they could design…

Bob Lutz also completely made the story up. He came back to GM in 2001. Ask any line worker or production supervisor who worked in any assembly plant between 1990 and 2000 (except Saturn, Corvette, and U-van, for obvious reasons). Panel gaps were a big deal in the 90s and the standard was 5.0 MM. The priority was…

CP. The motor was replaced a week ago and this guy is trying to dump the lemon before it’s out of warranty. I’d be willing to bet this isn’t the first issue he’s had with it and he’s probably just tired of it being a shop queen at less than 100k on the odo. It’s a $29,000 1987 Olds Cutlass Supreme.

Well, it’s an MG sooo...

Eh. That’ll be fine. I once saw a Grand Prix come into our shop that someone stuck a 3,000 lb. boulder on the roof as a practical joke. New roof panel, windshield, and cross supports, car looked good as new. Cars of this XJ’s vintage are pretty much garbage in a rollover anyway, a new panel and cross supports isn’t…

Neutral: The future is a few human-operated EV models for each manufacturer that will eventually morph into full self-driving vehicles. The bulk of engineering costs will be born by software development that can be shared across multiple vehicle lines. Most of the physical hardware, like traction motors, will be…