This is an honest-t0-god legit question I have about winter tires: where are they kept out of season? If you have a house with a garage, I can understand, but what about apartment-dwellers? Are they out of luck? Do some people just stick them in a corner and throw a towel over them? Or is there some economy of winter…

I’m with you on the appeal (the answer: ego and the imagined self who’s vastly more outdoorsy), but there’s an odd reason I half-way wish I’d have held off on the new Impreza and gotten the new Crosstrek instead - dips in the road. For whatever reason, San Diego has a lot of dips (intentional or not, I can’t…

Ah, right. The old “look for another job” rationale. It’s just like running to the grocery store to pick up a cantaloupe. Jobs aren’t constrained by imaginary factors like...availability, geography, salary, or a million other things, right?

Those Sportwagen prices you showed are stunningly low. I’m trying to convince my mom to give the Sportwagen a go as her TDI Jetta replacement. I had a TDI Sportwagen myself, and I thought the space inside was terrific - moved across the country twice with mine.

Nice long-form article, Ryan.

Nice rundown. I’d really love to see a deep dive into how a car like this comes to market with so many components that fail constantly. The Guilia isn’t a car that holds any appeal for me, nor do any other sports cars, but it’s starting to get to the point where I relish seeing what the next failure story is.

Actually got a Lyft in one of these this weekend. It was my first electric car ride. If my life was configured to allow for ownership of one - ownership of a house with a guaranteed plug in reach - I’d have taken a hard look at a fully electric car like this when buying a few months ago. But my ego isn’t too closely…

On a trip to France in high school (oh, you know, a quick weekend jaunt on Concorde...) my buddy got a self-winding Swatch. And that was like, 1999. We’ve had the tech to do this for years - the car will wind itself as it gyrates around on our crumbling roads and other infrastructure! It’s just the chemtrails keeping…

Didn’t Jalopnik recently run a guest column by an automotive engineer detailing how hard it is to change a car? Seems like at least a third of comments on any Jalopnik article concern which engine/suspension/brakes, etc to fantasy-substitute into any car. I’m not saying I trust any company blindly, but I think Subaru…

Totally agree. I’ve never had a car that didn’t have a hatchback. But, in a way, I aspire to a lifestyle that would permit a sedan. That would mean I could outsource all the labor that necessitates at least a hatch - no more IKEA runs or transporting some of the bits and bobs myself when moving house. I want to be the…

If I could have waited another six months after selling back my TDI for this, I would have, but I went for the new Impreza on which this is based. The 2017 Impreza is a fantastic little car, and it doesn’t take a crystal ball to see the new Crosstreks are gonna sell by the literal cargo-shipful.

Prior to one of our high-profile alumni, Dickie Scruggs, going to jail, there was a building on the Ole Miss campus named the Scruggs-Nutt Auditorium (no relation to this Nutt). I lament the renaming of it.

I’d like to see an article about China’s “two Volkswagens.” I know about the rule for joint ventures, but are you saying there are literally two different companies operating under the Volkswagen name and competing against one another?

So, you’re saying it’s a budgetary analogue to when I take a big dollop of lard, drop it in a hot pan, and then spread it around before dropping an egg right in the middle?

I discharged a little before these things had the name changed to be the new frigates. Does anyone in the Navy actually call them that? Why on earth not “corvette”? Actually, why not just take the design of the corvettes of any number of European navies?

I saw one of these when I lived in Berlin back in 2005-06. I think it had more key scratches on it than paint by that point. An indictment of the car? Of the Bush Admin? Who knows. Either way they were right.

This is a more mundane moon shot - we know where the paradigm is shifting and we can watch the race, rather than have a singular player drop a new technology on us out of the blue. And it’s an end that’ll have huge payoffs and fundamentally change one of the major tasks of our waking hours.

Anyone having any luck with getting the price for the Eufy RoboVac? Inputting the code makes Amazon say the code worked, but no additional discount is reflected.

Anyone having any luck with getting the price for the Eufy RoboVac? Inputting the code makes Amazon say the code…

4th: How on earth is Tesla going to be able to provide maintenance service for all those cars they plan to make?

Jason, this post doesn’t say what the neighbors objected to. Went back to read the older post and saw their complaints were “noise, odor, traffic” about halfway through. They’re clearly freaks, but this story really only says a legless man with a garage engaged in legal proceedings with neighbors.