Remember when Volkswagen used to make some of the best commercials on TV? “Big Day” still gives me chills!

It’s Friday! As a reward for all of your considerable efforts this week (and in honor of the upcoming Radwood show), here’s a nice ‘80s-era lo-res picture of a 911 from the old Accolade racing game Test Drive. There are icons you have on your screen that use more pixels than this.

For what it’s worth everyone in Jalopnik’s slack chatroom is yelling at Erik for the backup-camera take

I was just starting to drive regularly when that video came out. I worked two jobs over the summer of 1995 to scrape together $1,000 for a mac for my senior year at Indiana. From 7:30-3 I was part of a non-union crew at Sears that moved merchandise around while the unionized guys did remodeling work. From 5-10:30 I…

Looks like Meh Car Week.

Also important - if you are in the right lane and the traffic in front of you is going too slowly, don’t tailgate, just move over to the left lane and pass.

the dealer just kind of shrugged {...} It was definitely the last Chrysler product he ever bought.

I’m surprised it only sold for two years and so poorly when it was the era of cheap gas and a fully-fledged Chrysler lineup with everything from the Crossfire to the old Pacifica—that time was probably the closest that Chrysler’s been to a heyday in the past thirty years and yet somehow nothing good came of it.

Yeah, I myself saw it on a corkboard at an auto supply place decades ago, amid the usual sort of industrial fax/xerox humor. It probably originated when the company draft horse came back with a limp after the new kid made a delivery.

It has a roll cage man.

There is something so imminently satisfying about the Jimny’s existence—it’s like an organic, whole grain, protein-rich version of an SUV while the entire CUV ideal is just nutritionless and preservative-filled bleh. It’s so great that Suzuki is keeping its spirit alive with this and even the little Swift which seems…

I must admit i liked many of those choices/reasons

Noted, but how about a guy in his early 30s maintaining an old 911 that he saved since 11 years old to buy? Lots of guys like me get hit by this too. Every part for my car just went up 25%+. And that’s assuming there aren’t retaliatory measures. This is just dumb.

It’s true. I had an ‘04 Pontiac Grand Am, bright red. By all accounts a terrible parts bin car. FWD, underpowered engine, one or more window drives would break at least once a year, the dash was peeling up even with good sun prevention in place, and the radiator leaked, but not enough to justify replacing it. But it…

Conversely, people who *could* cut a 6 or 7 figure check are just the sort of person to get listened to in the upper echelons of politics.

I think we all have a duty to make these cars not as terrible. I know with some of the European cars and gm mid sized there is only so much you can do but the malaise Era American iron can benefit from the aftermarket parts available. If you are a red blooded American between 35 and 50 and wouldn’t like a 88 GTA…

What I take from this is that GM vehicles inspire more irrational love than most. Which I can understand.

I understand that you’ve moved the goalposts for political purposes (i.e., focusing on Chinese automotive policy, which is not the story), but can’t we all just put politics aside and agree, on a car website, that stiff tariffs on car imports are bad policy? Not even for the fact that they break basic principles of…

Your argument does nothing but support the thesis that tariffs are bad economics. They are directly anti-capitalist. That China is protectionist merely demonstrates that protectionism is wrong because they are trying to get their car industry off the ground. To enable that, they put tariffs on imports. Here’s a…

I did come of age in that time, and I remember my call sign. “KACM 8618, you got the one Doc Savage here. I’m 10-10 and listening in.” (Yeah, I geeked out long before SATB.)