One would think the German automakers already do much better in overall fleet fuel economy than American manufacturers who are dominated by truck sales and have to struggle with car and car-based CUVs to meet fleet standards. BMW builds all of their X4, X5, X6, and X7s in the US already, which would be on the lower…

Their next door neighbor state of South Carolina has a maximum cap sales tax on vehicles of only $600 (raised from $300 a few years ago). Perhaps these guys should move their LLCs.

Mercedes-Benz just invested $500 million in a new plant in Charleston, SC to build Sprinter vans that is currently hiring and ramping up to begin production, and estimated to have 1,300 employees by 2020.

How long can you keep foreign-tagged cars in the US? There are tons of Canadians that live half the year in the states and drive around with Canadian plates. I have even seen a Mexico plate here in South Carolina for while. How hard would it be for an American to get the car they want registered in Canada (or Mexico)…

I question whether this would hold up in court under the first-sale doctrine. The sale in no way harms Ford, or its image. He could have just garaged the thing, and it wouldn’t have been worth anything to Ford then. He could have shit all over it in his vlogs and Ford would have been trying to buy it back from him. Or…

I would recommend he start with something like an older diesel G-wagon, and do some extensive pre-travel prep on it before hand, including a second battery, extended fuel tank, slight lift, decent tires, etc. And take someone else along for the journey. There’s a good article about a couple who did this for years.

It’s not just a matter of enclosing a cockpit. There are a lot of other factors that arise when you enclose a small space like that- it becomes an oven and you have to add some type of cooling system which needs some system to run it and a place to put it. Larger cars already have the space, but in F1 cars space is at…

Get a Pelican case or something similar that a helmet can fit it inside and meets checked luggage size requirements. You can also fit clothes and other stuff into it, and they’re virtually crush proof.

In South Carolina, the legislature just increased the sales taxes on cars from a cap of $300 to a cap of $500. Of course, we also have property taxes on vehicles, which seem to be a whole separate math in themselves. The property taxes on my 2005 Chevy Silverado LS extended cab are much higher than they should be…

While the wife may be able to sue her ex-husband, the former mother-in-law may have to sue both her daughter and former son-in-law. While the daughter didn’t know about the cameras, if she was co-owner of the house, she may also have liability regardless of knowledge. Any lawyers want to chime in?

The roof line on this one looks like a GMC Jimmy.

Based on this, most people in rural West Virginia (and I’ve driven around A LOT of it over the last 15 years) are running a salvage yard in their front yards. Yet there its considered normal to just abandon non-working vehicles and other machinery and junk in the yard. At least these are behind the the house and out…

Good article from Wired on one of these whose less quick with the gun.

So how does one ship race cars around? Technically cars, don’t meet any import regulations, and aren’t intended to be registered. Say you bought a couple of Porsche GT3's for racing from Porsche in Germany, or something similar from BMW or Mercedes? Or non-production car based vehicles that have to be shipped in?

Have you seen what US automakers sell overseas? They sell several generation old vehicles since the tooling is already paid for. Once a model (and often a platform) has been retired in the US and Europe, they ship the tooling to South America and other areas to keep churning out the cars where incomes are lower.

While their electronics were wonky, they did tend to be waterproof. I had a Discovery series 1 for a few years, and rain water always made its way into the turn signal housing so that it was always half filled until I took it out and dumped it and it never stopped working.

I think the LR4 was the last of the decent vehicles, and even the ones sold in the US were overly upscale. Hate the new discovery. Waiting to see what will happen with the new Defender, but don’t have high hopes. Hoping to one day acquire an imported Defender 110 as NAS are ridiculously expensive.

Doesn’t really look like a total loss. Just looks like he now has a rally car. Install a roll cage, take out some dashboard where the airbags were and some other stuff, new windshield, and its still perfectly drivable on the street, at least in the US.

How do they know the if the value is underreported? How does one value a used engine? At wholesale cost? At retail? If you take a look at their Facebook page, most of the engines they were selling before were going for $550 to $850. And they can always make the argument that the vehicle really is a parts car as they…

Why on earth would you want to drag over an American car with you when stationed in Germany when you have the chance to buy and drive a vehicle you otherwise would not have access to in the states?