I live in Panama (where every other used car has been shipped from the U.S. after an auction) and we’ve always known Texas cars are the shadiest. Serious used car sales outfits would only bring down retired school buses from Texas after careful inspection, before they were outlawed for use in public transportation. At…

E-bikes and e-mopeds are the true EVs of the masses. Even a Nissan Leaf is excessive when energy used, weight, materials used, physical and carbon footprints are objectively considered, not even mentioning actual monetary cost /MSRP. But hey, car culture, and comfortable, spread-out living, right? Gotta have our…

Oh man, one of my car purchasing rules is to never buy a car I can’t push onto the road shoulder by myself...no new cars and definitely no EVs for me.

EV adoption? Sure, I’m trying the two wheel EVs (the kind you can pedal too) for now, thank you.

The stupidity of paying top dollar (or top euro) for a car, on the promise that MAYBE one day you won’t have to drive it yourself, but will still have to charge and clean and maintain it over years. While you wait for that MAYBE to materialize, you eat strong depreciation, ridiculous parts and insurance/collision…

U.S. dollars will soon be worth about as much as Monopoly cash. Probably mostly because of suckers like these...

This may be the ultimate bank heist getaway vehicle. Investment can be recouped shortly after purchase.

I have most enjoyed driving EVs and am fully aware of their green future *potential* and better air quality their adoption *may* bring. HoWeVer, I have to humbly but actively stand against their present state of development and will boycott automakers as long as:

Officially a real tragedy now that it sunk. Screw the cars, I’m shedding a tear for the marine life that will have to deal with the fuels, lithium, cobalt, motor oil, rubber, heavy metals, plastics, etc. These will slowly seep out of the wreckage and end up in our bodies sooner or later (as so many things we dump…

A construction company I used to work at owned a compact off road truck fleet, consisting of 5 Toyota Hilux, 2 Nissan Navara (Frontier), and 2 Amaroks. The VW was most sought after (when an employee had a choice) because of the much better ride when both loaded and unloaded. One single complaint: that diesel 2.0T…

Funny how we think this is gruesome and “too much”, yet few can look away...except maybe when the badly injured start to wail. This film genre thrives on the darker parts of human curiosity. We know these are unnecessary, ineffective and all know the ways showing these films is wrong, and yet 90% of jalops reading…

Another instance of a driving “teacher” vs. aggressive driver. Anyone willing to put others at risk of death or injury for the sake of “teaching a lesson” is just a slightly different kind of a**hole. I know because over the course of a lifetime I’ve been BOTH those types of a**holes before, sometimes to bad…

Every three months I had to go through the ignition points/condenser/spark plugs ritual. A quality set installed by magic hands could go 5-6 months, a cheaper job lasted 2.5 months. New distributor cap every 9 months. New ignition coil every 1.5 years. Yearly set of spark plug cables. Surprisingly never had carb…

I love how their name sounds kinda honest in Spanish: Dyed River, or tainted river even...

It’s funny how you can’t accumulate tickets or points on your license when you don’t have a license to pin the heat onto. If you can somehow avoid getting your car impounded after getting caught, you still won’t accumulate any tickets depending on where you live...even better when you live in a place with low traffic…

The Chicken Tax. It has helped create an absurd, protected environment for (U.S. domestic/North America) trucks where they have thrived to the point where their size, weight and abundance exacerbate the already hazardous conditions faced by all road users. Individual and household carbon footprints are ridiculously…

Considering other contemporary Daihatsus, man this thing was a limo...! Here in Panama, it sold for a few hundred less than Corolla, nicely equipped (power windows and locks, auto-reverse tape deck/AM FM and four speakers, and some plush velour seats...) This was the asian value brand before the Korean brands came…

I hear LingLong tires will be the new OEM tire supplier after this fiasco

There can rarely (never?) be any sound financial advice on a new car purchase. The smart money buys Select 4 to 5-year-old cars. New cars keep you poor...!

They can absolutely eat every other automaker’s lunch if they propose standardized swappable EV battery modules and charge/swap stations along with the cars...