I had a ‘96 5-speed Accord in college, and yeah I can back this statement up. I drove it like a rally car, and in fact used to race my friend in his then-new Lancer (base model) on back roads in the winter, in upstate NY. It’s not like my E46 but it was a Good Car if you ask me.

As a die-hard manual owner/driver, I agree. I do not push my religion on others. I only encourage them to learn as a life skill to have, like swimming.

It is a cool place... it’s right in my small town in NH. This has to be one of the rarest cars they’ve ever had, now that I’m looking online a bit more. Apparently there were only 259 ever made, and currently there are zero of this bodystyle on the Alpina Register which only means the owners haven’t put them on there,…

I know I’m resurrecting this article from the internet graveyard, but I’m curious what you think about this:

Good idea on the wipers! I’ve seen the DRL-only thing on a 2001 Subaru Outback, a late 90's Toyota Land Cruiser, a 2017 Nissan (not sure the model), and more I’m sure I can’t think of.

This, exactly. Even my ‘01 GMC yukon xl had the lights set up that way, except you could turn it totally off if you really wanted.

This isn’t so much a rule, as both ignorance of how lights work and poor design of lights by manufacturers: many cars have daytime running lights that include ONLY headlights, not taillights. Some even have a lit dash/gauge cluster (or digital display) where you really can’t tell your taillights aren’t on (in some…

As the owner of a mostly-original ‘61 Ford F100 4x4, I’m disappointed they dropped this on a Ram too. I like it, but not as much as I would if they had just restored the truck as it was from the factory, with some restomod improvements here and there. But that’s not ICON I guess.

My truck is disappointed too. With an unlimited budget, I’d fix all the existing parts of this truck to make them like new. Improve the overall driveability but don’t drop it on a Raptor chassis or something. About the biggest concession I’d make is an electronic distributor to replace the points ignition.

Sometimes it’s nice for a salesperson to quickly identify something like that about a car, without having to look it up. I worked at a place that coded the actual cost of various retail items into the price tag, but not in a way that you’d recognize unless you knew the system. It was the kind of place that gave…

Before gas lights, range computers, and all that, I was driving my father’s 1979 Ford F100 on the highway, chatting with my friend. Okay, yelling to my friend because it’s a 70's Ford on the highway. Suddenly, it starts to buck and cough, and I go “oh right, I never got gas this morning” as I take stock of where we…

“stance” is about the “relationship” between the wheels and the car

I don’t like “stance” when it means 25 degrees of negative camber. I don’t really love slammed cars, either. This car looks properly “stanced” and I don’t mean that in the stancebro way, but in the way that describes how a car sits.

I still get compliments on my E46 wagon of the same generation. People can’t believe it’s an ‘03. They did such a good job at that time of tying the models together visually, without making the same car in different sizes (ahem, current Audi).

The first time I saw one of these was at a car show in Salt Lake City, on a family trip. We happened to have rented an Isuzu Trooper for that trip, and I remember specifically seeing this, and even at age 15, thinking: “This is EXACTLY THE SAME. Who the hell would spend an extra $10k just for that Acura badge?!” Ok so…

It’s still the same problem; I remember reading about this, probably on Jalopnik a while back. It takes very little for the feds to say, “that’s different and requires all separate crash testing” and that can kill it.

The only tragedy here is the bumpers on this 2002:

There are certain standard features on cars that we’re so accustomed to that we don’t even think about them much. Seat belts, for one. The steering wheel. Pedals. Or FM radio

LOL @ 11:00 ish where they passed someone! Someone not in a Lada?!

This detail on SUVs/wagons: