WTF is this article doing on Jalop? Bad editorial choice.

That is a little suspicious.

Well I mean suspicious that a bunch of students are buying a 225 dollar chain lock for 85 dollars.

“American Muscle” is a very specific style of vehicle. It does not mean “fast car made by an American brand”. 

They took over my local Ford dealer a while ago. Went from, ‘meh , it’s a dealer’ to ‘yeah, I ain’t dealing with this shit’. Won’t be buying another vehicle from there.

Plenty of people, stop being a dick and look outside once in a while.

Chevrolet used it the exact wrong way.

My mom just turned 73 and she drives a Honda Fit Sport, five-speed manual. Orange Revolution Metallic. Of course, she’s a sample of one.

Around here (Central Alberta) it’s a $110,000 F-350 King Ranch. All the old guys now have huge trailers and still think they need to support the oil patch. They’re a menace.

This is the correct answer. It also (sort of) lead to another personal favorite of mine, Volvo’s Rebel Blue which is cheekily referred to as Swedish Racing Green:

Mystichrome is definitely up there for me

Chryslers Nitro Yellow Green used on the 1995 Neon. It was Chryslers first time doing a throwback to the Hi-Impact colors of the 70s. I think it looks particularly handsome with the matte anthracite painted mouldings and bumper stripes to give it a little extra. Chrysler later released several other extremely…

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I don’t think Midori Green will ever be topped. Honda used it exclusively on the 1996 Civic hatch and never again.

World Rally Blue from Subaru. Beautiful on almost every car they put it on.

The first car with knock detection was the Saab 900 in 1982. They didn’t become standard for some time after that, but a quick googling indicates that the first gen SHO had one starting in 1989.

Listen, some people have a long way to go and a short time to get there.

Toyota started that fad. Those were called “Altezza” tail lights, because they appeared first as the stock tail light design on the Altezza, which was sold in the US as the IS300.

Toyota didn’t jump on this trend; they started it. These were originally known as “Altezza lights” because they debuted on the 1998 Toyota Altezza (Lexus IS300). 

Altezza yo!  JDM, Bro!