Neutral ... As the owner of both a GTI and an old Ranger truck I would absolutely buy a VW trucklet without a second thought.

Day’s a strange name for a car...

This is all interesting stuff but the most surprising to me is the existence of a machine for doing what I was specifically told never to do, putting cold water in a hot engine. 

It certainly matches the highly scientific rule that only a good-looking car is a fast car.

All of these “this is incredibly childish”, “this is unprofessional”, and “this doesn’t belong in racing” comments make me laugh. For the younger folks out there, you may not realize that most races were not nationally televised in the beginning of NASCAR. That all changed after the 1979 Daytona 500. “Why?” you may…

You ever have someone try to wreck you at 140mph? These guys behaved better than some people who drive on the interstate at 60mph.

I’m sorry that you think this behaviour is limited to sports. If everyone in America worked under the same public scrutiny as sports people do, I don’t think you’d be singling them out or indeed even commenting on this article

Yeah, unless OP has kids or something, they shouldn’t even bother buying a car. It’s a waste of money at that usage rate.

“I put an average of 3,000 miles/year on my car”

What happened to you all here on Jalopnik? Did your balls drop off? (talking to the men commenting here.) this guy has made a great home built kart that is so overpowered and trust worthy of some jalopy praise. Get over your high horses of couch physics and enjoy it for what it is. He did it for laughs and fun. End of…

Have kid = Sell kid vehicle?

There is no modern equivalence. The AWD van is basically dead in America, save for the Sienna.

It’s not talked about a lot, but these things had great performance for what they were. My friend ran a lawn-mowing business, we used the Astro as a tow vehicle, towed an 18' trailer with 2 zero-turns, 1 walk behind deck and all the accouterments. Would cruise at 65 with that, without the trailer - hammer the gas and…

It’s surprising how many subcultures popped up around them, while I always had them at the bottom of the middle-school soccer chariot power rankings. I suppose they were a sturdy base on which you could do anything, even very bad ideas.

Yeah.  These are the equivalent of those bullet proof Benz cars from the 1960s... WAAAAYYY more reliable than they should be.  Spooky good.  And nobody but carpenters and tradesmen bought ‘em new.  Go figger.

Holy moly, my family went through so many Astro vans back in the day. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, everyone had an AWD Astro. They were perfect for our upper-lower-middle-class lifestyle of camping, hanging out at the lake, exploring the mountains. What’s the modern equivalent? Because that’s pretty much what I’m…

Right there!  You cross right there!

I think it’s definitely for the better that Mercedes and Ferrari aren’t included in this, and I say that as a Ferrari fan. There is already SO much coverage of those two teams by virtue of them fighting for the title that it’s easy to forget about the great stories further down the grid, such as...

Easy solution.
The show starts in a windowless office, night, everyone looks like they haven’t slept in two weeks, the sound of the florescent lights fill the sound track. One guy is standing with anger on his face, he pointedly looks at his antagonist. Words spill out of his mouth like an overrunning oil tank, I’ll…

“Mercedes and Ferrari wanted to operate under different terms to the rest of the teams...”