Dude, this is Jalopnik. This car could have been designed by Chip Foose and carved out of billet tungsten by hand by Boyd Coddington himself and it would still die a No Dice at Any Price death by a thousand angry Jalops. Ironically enough, it’s the very definition of a jalopy.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Which is exactly what I want from Washington.

Former defense attorney here too. The field sobriety tests are just as easy for the officers to screw up as well. I’ve had so-called FST Trainers on the stand admitting they screwed up the FSTs when we reviewed the video footage and the instructions in the NHTSA manual. There is a giant disclaimer at the end of each…

Blowing a .02 on a PBT isn’t evidence of anything. PBT’s aren’t admissible and if you’ve consumed anything within 15 minutes of using it, the number will be off anyway. Failing field sobriety tests and driving errors (lane drifting, failure to stop, etc.) are evidence of intoxication, as is blowing over the limit on…

Start selling the Opel Insignia rebadged as a Chrysler 200, just to confuse everyone who bought a Buick Regal last year.

It’s probably been scrapped by now. A Dodge flatbed hauling this thing off just screams Desperate Tweakers. They’ll probably find the plastic bits down a ravine somewhere.

Cool story, bro. By the way, the C4 didn’t come out until ‘84, so whatever you were racing against in ‘77 was definitely not comparable to this car.

Yep. My parents have a ‘95 LT1. GM didn’t recalibrate the coolant temp gauge for the LT1 so it always looks like it’s about to overheat on the analog gauge, but it’s also reverse-flow so it runs hot too. Optispark hasn’t gone bad, but it’s the later model and the A/C needs to be rebuilt.

Apple people will still buy Apple products. Very few people have ever actually cross-shopped Apple with competitive products. I don’t own a Mac because I like the ability to upgrade my PC components whenever I want and I can’t stand OSX, but I have iPhones and iPads because Android is a hot mess and I hate it, and I’d…

The issue is whether people will pay a premium for a Kia branded as Apple. It’s kind of like Sony branding a Suzuki Swift/Geo Metro in the ‘90s, installing a killer stereo, and charging three times the price for a POS car.

My brother in law is still pissed about that.

Auto manufacturers will go through several rounds of pilot production before Job One in order to resolve most of these issues. Panel fitment, fastener placement, and some of the things found by Munro like the rear end assembly of the Model 3 are usually all resolved during the pilot process. Tesla deliberately skipped…

Or GM anything. You can throw an Ecotec, LS, LT, small block, big block, Northstar, Vortec, whatever engine into anything and someone will make a harness and ECU for it if GM doesn’t already have one. That’s why hot rodders use them and Mopar has made major inroads with the HEMI and derivatives over the last 15 years…

Do they relocate the gas tanks or are we still gambling with that issue? It’s a man’s truck so I expect it to carry 60 gallons of gas hanging out between the cab and the frame.

That’s why there’s an air freshener on the vent in the first interior pic.

This car is actually quite desirable:

Both of my cars are at 14 years old and 6 years old, respectively. Both have under 100,000 miles. Unless one of them gets destroyed in a wreck or becomes mechanically totaled in the next decade, I probably won’t buy a new ICE vehicle unless it’s a pickup truck before GM goes 100% EV for passenger vehicles.

What’s amazing is that Parkview is a NONPROFIT. They don’t have any shareholders they are beholden to. It’s bad enough when venture capital funds start investing in small practices, but WTF is a nonprofit corporation doing trying to extort more money out of people who are actually covered by the limited…

Well, I do understand explosive decompression, and I’m also a scuba diver and know that my tank is only rated to 3,000 PSI, not 10,000 PSI, for very good reasons. I also have a friend who was in an accident with his CNG-powered Honda Civic. The tank exploded, but there was no fire or injuries. According to Hyundai, no…

These are halo cars. Nobody needs a halo car. The Corvette is a halo car. Chevrolet is still Chevrolet without the Corvette. But they are aspirational vehicles and good for marketing.