I have yet to see a new Z, and I live in FL where retirees come to spend their children’s’ inheritance the money they saved during their career on playthings.

They are caught in a doom spiral that is the inevitable result of cost cutting. Cost cutting leads to less R&D and cheaper feeling vehicles, which leads to needing to tap subprime and fleet sales to move metal (upmarket buyers don’t want dated cheap-feeling vehicles). The subprime and fleet sales keep the cash coming…

To get an Ohio used car dealer license, you need to have a $25,000 surety bond. Even though the dealer closed, I don’t think the bond would be revoked/given back to the dealer since there was pending litigation. Earleta Homes could have their lawyers claw back the $3k from the bond money (since that’s what it’s for).

Stellantis obviously prefers the pronouns she/it.

I don’t understand. How could it not when you have a bunch of American cars that are too big to sell anywhere else in the world, and a bunch of European cars that are too small to sell in ‘Merica, and then you don’t bother to try to share crossover platforms until way too late and then produce sub-par cars for too…

“Stellantis said it took exception to the letter and that it doesn’t believe public personal attacks are the most effective way to solve problems.”

There’s no other answer. Shortest slideshow in Jalopnik history. 

1987 Mercedes-Benz AMG Hammer

Sounds like the hole-in-one scam Trump pulled at one of his courses, where the tee was set up to make the hole too short to qualify for the prize.

What a terrible idea. Imagine if you had someone that really didn’t like you and they decided to light up your house all night? I am getting a bit sick of the “move fast, break something” mentality that has no regard for anything but themselves.

Isn’t the current Corvette essentially the new Fiero?  I mean the styling screams Pontiac with all the different color plastics, etc.  I like to think the C8 is GMs way of admitting they F’d up in 1988.

Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades

First gear — Towing someone’s car like that seems like serious overreach. I mean, you can’t compel a human witness to testify even if they were right there at the scene, so taking someone’s car seems like a huge violation. I mean, sure — ask the owner for the footage, and get a warrant if needed, but people also have…

I went to spectate at a Mustang Club show a few years back in my 2014 V6 and the organizers tried to get me to enter really enthusiastically. It’s an interesting color (Gotta Have it Green) and they didn’t make a lot in the base model, but it’s not exactly rare and it definitely wasn't super clean that day. Those…

The sad look is so much better

A few years ago, I went to a classic car show and saw a guy wiping down his brand-new Mustang. It still had the temp tags on it. Ridiculous.

I might misunderstand, but here’s what it looks like to me: Tina applied to 2 financing companies, selected the offer from one, finished the paperwork, and owned the car. So far, so good, a normal process. But then the dealership submitted a third financing request to a third company, but giving materially different…

Eh, Frankie was doing stuff that very few other architects were willing to try. He pushed as many limits as he could, always living on the brink of bankruptcy and failure. I think the world of architecture is much better off with his contributions than without. I'd take a FLW house with odd room sizes and leaky…

So he's the Alfa Romeo of architecture then?

Living a few towns over from Wright's hometown I can say this. His stuff is junk. It needs constant maintenance and work. Oh, it looks cool as hell but it isn't functional in Wisconsin weather. I don't know how his Arizona buildings and designs worked out but everything here is always leaking.