Over the years, I have worked on many automotive, aerospace, and rail projects that were designed in relative secrecy because they were part of a competitive contract. After the winner is announced and the contract is awarded, the competing designs are revealed; and it is often amazing to see the similarities in the…

As someone else put really well - it’s not your or my job to be hall monitor. Move over and let them by. They are saying why the fuck are you in the left lane?

I haven’t had the chance to listen to the podcast, but as a female who comments quite a bit on here, thank you for writing this and agreeing to discuss it on the podcast. This needs to be said, having a penis, or identifying as male doesn’t mean you know jack about cars, or at least not more than any woman. Leave…

One of the many reasons I frequent Jalopnik is the multitude of writers that post regularly, many of whom are female. I think it’s one of the site’s best features, frankly. It sucks that you have to deal with this kind of behavior, but I applaud all of you for continuing to do your work despite it.

You just answered your question.  You’re already well into a teardown with it in the frame.  Pull it, rebuild it over the winter and put it in next spring as has been mentioned.  Then you have a fresh, numbers matching lump of vintage AMC V8 Malaise lumbering you around as you grin like a kid in a candy store driving…

This isn’t “complying” with anything though. Merc intend to make money from it.

It is efficient if it allows the maker to increase their profit margin, because like anybody else in business they’re not a charity. Except Bosch, who are actually owned by a charity.

Efficiency is a term that can be applied to many things. That’s sort of how words work. In this case, it is efficiency of manufacturing. To do otherwise would require new production lines, potentially even new factories, and would increase the cost to produce the vehicle. Making a car more expensive for the sake of a…

I know what you mean. My Subaru (being a Subaru) came with this weird-ass bike-rack mounted to the trunk that I still haven’t figured out how to strap a bike to it.

I posted this story last year on mother’s day, but whatevs.

No, this is someone pricing his car according to what the going rates are for it. Heaven forbid he wants to get what it’s actually valued at in the current market. Before you start just going on about what you think it’s worth, go to any used car site like Auto Trader or Car Gurus and plug in this car’s numbers and…

I swear some of you folks never actually buy a car that costs more than $2k.

I looked at every resource I have and his thing is almost on the money.

Well.