https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/10/65370d850d37-toyota-aiming-to-bring-high-efficiency-solar-tech-to-vehicle-lineup.html

I would love to but I’m not Jalop enough to do it myself. I showed photos including some close-ups to my local repair shop, but they said it is too far gone and there are not enough available replacement parts.

Sad Vamos.

Mercury Grand Marquis, boring? It’s the only car I ever drove that you have to consciously steer all the time on a perfectly straight road.

3rd: Hydrogen only has a place if we get at least one of two things:

We have a JDM minivan (Toyota Noah). Polycarbonate headlights, but the rear lights apparently made from the same material as CD cases. Our dog’s metal enclosure tipped into the left side one on a camping trip and knocked a 2" x 3" hole in it.

The Naked deserves a Jalopnik feature of its own. The door hinges were exposed to allow the no-exterior-flange doors, which in turn allowed an exposed and therefore thickened B-pillar for extra strength in the restricted overall width limit of a kei-car. The doors panels were identical pressings front and rear, which…

...mushy peas and salty crisps chips... and a saveloy

...and the fact that Toyota, Hino and Isuzu do not sell Kei trucks...?

...like other forward-thinking hip brands aimed at young drivers like Saturn or Scion...

...they made that dirty hippie look like you can almost sense the funk coming off him...

Uh, yes, if it’s 1967 and you’re 6 years old, unrestrained in the front seat of your dad’s Austin A35 and he let’s you operate it, it is.

Poetry. If COTD was still a thing, they would have retired your number by now.

I have liived in Japan a, um, long time and daily drove a Beat from new for 10 years. I am a shade under 6'1", long in the torso (well, neck actually). At the time I weighed about 150lb.
My friend Joe, who was the same height but virtually twice the weight, test drove it no problem with the top down. I am not sure how…

Unfortunately, you’re about 30 years out of date re respect of eccentrics breaking the rules. The UK is now full of CCTV cameras and jobsworths handing out fines for momentary infractions.

One owner, and what an owner:

The first paragraph of Tom Wolfe’s 1965 essay about Junior Johnson, The Last American Hero. Read it and weep:

The word in Japan is that Subaru Sambars were made to the spec of the Akabou courier company, which used no other make. i.e. they have a reputation for durability.

I take my car to this guy, he even has his own garage with a lift and tools, give him some money, and sometimes, later, he returns my car totally fixed.

Similar story, but in the UK. Our first camping trip (family of six) and the only place for me to sleep was the back seat of our Mk1 Escort, which had a pretty fast rear window. It must have been during a meteor shower, because I have never seen so many shooting stars before or since.