...did you just say ‘mute point’ ?

The batteries probably have chain guides on them somewhere.

I better fix that

You could just start with a fake hood scoop and add a little door at the front.
A pizza scoop.  Obviously it would have to be insulated, but I think you  are on to something.

Two things can be true.

Any automatic windshield wipers on BMWs. On other cars they seem to work fine. On my taurus I had them set to auto and didn’t touch the switch for four years. Worked flawlessly. On the Bimmers though, you turn it on auto and it ignores you. I’ve had three, and they all fail to work. That means I can either have the…

can i change my answer to be:
the jalopnik slideshow is the worst automotive feature

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

I, for one, am all for taking a Volkswagen-controlled company’s word about clean fuel technology at face-value without any critical commentary.

That’s Paul McQueen.

A base Golf is still a fun car. They have a nicer pedal feel and roll on acceleration than you’d expect. I had one back in 2009, when I couldn’t really afford nice stuff. But a base Golf was a good car then, and it was a nice car. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t fast, but I did enjoy it on the curvy back roads of…

Like am I supposed to care? It looks like a F-150.

Pickups, some kind of pickup and also, pickups.

It’s a total-loss cooling system.  A giant tank of coolant is kept in the bed and pumped into the engine where it does it’s cooling duties.  When the thermostat gets hot, it dumps that load of hot coolant on the ground and circulates the fresh coolant into the void.  It’s great because the cooler coolant more…

If you like your Miata’s uglier, with softer handling and a questionable engine, yeah.

Gearing makes a difference... looks like rockwell toploaders which are probably the 2.5 tons out of a duece and a half... so probably 6.71s in differentials...  so it would move around fine... possibly better than most school buses...  fuel mileage would be rated in gallons per mile though.

Sorry, what?

Unless you take a really shitty photograph, one would hope that anyone with a passing familiarity of how automotive paint ‘works’ could tell from the photo at least something about the paint.

I’m not going to be able to tell if the wax is in good shape, but I can usually see orange peel and overspray, and I…

I’m a Trekkie, and love the conventions, as well as car conventions. I never been to a crappy car meeting, unless it’s like a Ford Grenada/Maverick/Pinto owners meet.

riding this thing across the American West feels like an extremely punk rock thing to do.