Back in the day if you bought a Golf or Jetta in Texas (or anywhere in the Southwest) the first thing you did was replace the thermostat with one that would open at a cooler temp so your car wouldn’t constantly overheat.

You forgot to call him a “pedo guy.”

Hopefully the oil pressure problem isn’t too hard to sort out. Looking forward to updates on the conversion. Since it’s not a “skoolie” that raises the question: What’s the slang for city-bus conversion RV?

Nothing says “true apology” like immediately following the apology with “if” or “but.”

First Gear: “Might be hard to come by” ?? They’ve been hard to come by for a few months. We’re driving a new-to-us 2017 Honda CR-V because we couldn’t afford a similarly-aged Outback in our town. New inventory was at a trickle, putting pressure on the used Subie market.

Must be sad to be so angry.

As many a grandma says here in Texas: bless your heart.

I, too, was born a basic white man. I’m a middle aged and overweight, too. I say this with the most sincerity: Fuck yourself with a saguaro cactus.

Some GM designer: “gotta work this bumper in, just make it look like the Vega, it’ll be fine.”

You don’t like that beautiful US-spec front bumper?

I stopped reading the words when I got to “force’s” with an unnecessary apostrophe. The pictures are cool though.

Even shorter answer: Jeep.

Is there a site where disgruntled right-leaning Jalopnik readers congregate? Please share, it should be fun to visit!

This. You want the exemptions for trucks? Make them trucks. The more “luxury” features, the more it has to meet car standards. You got power locks/windows, leather, premium sound, dual-zone climate controls? You get treated like a car. Aftermarket lift kits should require inspection and an extra registration fee.

Is your opinion not to be criticized when we find it idiotic?

I live in a new development. I see a lot of dually and jacked up trucks. Mostly driven by guys who park them, grab their tool box/bag and hit the work site. There’s a crew of 3 guys whose job is to go around in a Bobcat and haul the trash to the roll-off dumpsters a couple blocks away. The only thing they use their…

And that dually probably daily-drives one person to and from an office, and gets to tow something maybe twice a year.

So, again, not victim-blaming. Imagine the truck is instead a bag full of the amount of cash it takes to buy the truck.

It’s an electric motor that looks like an outboard.  That lake prohibits gas-powered boats, and wakes, under most circumstances. Those vintage rental boats can only manage 4.5 mph top speed.

Lady Bird Lake prohibits gas-powered boats, and wakes. It’s a tiny electric motor disguised as an outboard. Top speed of those boats is 4.5 mph.