The requirement for a visual inspection is to have everything in its original configuration. Functional tests apply to all cars 95 and older. The amount of emissions allowed varies from car to car, and we go off percentages and parts per million.

As someone who is slated to take the BAR Smog Exam to attain a smog license later this year, Doug is only scratching the surface of our draconian emissions regulations. But anyone questioning whether we need emissions regulations should go look at pictures of LA in the 60s.

Alas, if only I had vacation time saved up.

If I start now, the Greyhound from California should be there by next weekend.

Affordable train line from LA to Vegas? Every. Damn. Weekend.

Ever daily driven a car with a lightened flywheel? It’s not always the best feeling.

You don’t need to bring it to a shop to defeat wheel locks. I’ve had to break off wheel locks on cars where the customer had lost the wheel lock key. Quick, simple, and cheap. Locks will only deter the most casual wheel thieves.

Yeah, you should be able to just drive off the surface rust. They just wanted the upsell and he probably just wanted the noise gone ASAP. But, I've learned that nothing is impossible in this industry as well...

Usually yes, you can just drive it off. However, I work as a tech in Sunny Southern California, and we've had cars in the lot rust their rotors in just 3 weeks. It takes the perfect storm to do so in SoCal but I have a feeling Florida is a little more unforgiving.

This might just sound crazy to you, but rotors do rust when they sit. Especially in a humid environment like Florida.

Too bad Subaru can’t actually do anything to the engine of the production model without Toyota crying foul.

I'm just glad he's wearing a Tactleneck.

There's just something so beautiful about the Cosworth that the Focus could never hope to achieve. Nothing against the Focus, that's just how beautiful the Escort is to me.

Why not just raise health and life insurance premiums for those who fail to produce an immunization record? Or perhaps bar the possibility of obtaining life insurance for those who refuse to vaccinate? A progressive income tax increase would be draconian, and would basically be forced emigration.

I've broken a HF breaker bar before. That being said, I usually buy Snap-On and Matco, because I do this for a living.

They would then have to cut weight from the rest of the chassis, because adding a turbo adds quite a bit of heft.

Does this mean that hipsters will also want manuals because no one else will have them? Because that would make me sad.

In general the turbo models, especiallt the 205, don't have head gasket issues. Those only really existed on the early NA 2.5s.

It's just a joke, like how people make jokes about gun violence, terrible drivers and Florida in the US. Lighten up, Francis.

Can we put Jalopnik livery all over the car?