Uh, what? If you can only afford $1000 down, you shouldn’t be buying a $40k truck, or a $30k one...

You’re thinking of the Lincoln Futura concept car:

My dad had a burnt orange Baja Bug back in the ‘70s. He loved that car, and I always wished he still had it.

Bisi Ezerioha of Bisimoto fame is a pretty fascinating guy to follow. His 1000 hp minivan and EV 911 builds have a lot of cool engineering in them:

My unchecked antics have been tremendously successful from a readership standpoint, contributing to Jalopnik garnering the most traffic the website has ever seen.

This actually seems like a pretty brilliant driving school fleet car:

Looks like a solid improvement overall. The new looks don’t bother me one bit, and but the real story here is the ProPilot upgrades.

Many German cars have had this for decades. My old E30 had bulb out detection.

AMC? Jeep is going plug-in hybrid these days, and feel like AMC could have pulled it off. 

Did they ever really stop? The Frontier has averaged over 63000 sales a year in the US since 2005. Granted, that’s 100k less per year than the Tacoma over the same time period, but still, 63000 sales a year for a US-market truck with little to no changes for 15 years isn’t bad at all.

I get your point about the Chrysler, but the Ridgeline has a 300lb higher payload capacity than a Tacoma, and has always had a spare tire in the cargo box. Yes, it sucks if you get a flat and the bed is full lumber, but it absolutely has a spare. 

False. My wife’s new Honda had 6 miles, and her Nissan had 9. My dad’s BMW had 4 miles. 

Devil’s advocate here: the semiconductor industry was deemed critical infrastructure as it supports just about everything: data centers, communication, healthcare, defense, etc, and rightly so. With more people than ever working from home and stressing network infrastructure, semiconductor demand is high to keep…

The US two-party system is so entrenched at this point that I doubt any president on each side could bring down the entire party. Look at history: Nixon didn’t bring down the Republicans, and Carter didn’t bring down the Democrats.

Truman was absolutely despised by both parties during his first term, and only barely…

Easy. Mercedes 450SL convertible, in burgundy, with hardtop and soft top. It’s been my mom’s favorite car for as long as I can remember, but she’s never owned one. She’d prefer a manual, but I don’t think the 450s offered them, only the 280/300s, and she’s explicitly stated she wants the 450.

Ah, you right. Fat fingered it. 

I actually had a 1992 automatic E30 convertible. Do NOT get an automatic E30. That automatic sucks all joy out of what’s otherwise a glorious drivetrain, and knocks something like 2 seconds off the 0-60 time. It’s bad.

Fellow mechanical engineer here. I followed pretty much the exact same path: applied to a bunch of schools, ended up at the in-state one since it was much cheaper and has a well-respected engineering program, studied my ass off, and joined Baja SAE. The Baja team shared a shop with the Formula SAE team, so there was a…