Ding ding ding, we have a winner!

‘Fun” you say. “Sporty” you say. “Truck” you also say. Well my friend it once again delights me to say I’ve got just the suggestion for you! There’s few cars more versatile in the automotive world than the Subaru Outback! What’s better than a hurly-burly wagon? It’s brother with a mullet! Party in the back with that…

This is how we’d have to roll...

What’s most weird about it is that it’s got all the bells and whistles of the world’s fanciest limousine, but with only two seats so you have to drive it yourself. It’s like, “Hey, everybody, look at me! I couldn’t afford a chauffeur!”

I like a good logo too. When I see badges that have meaning, like Porsche’s or Alfa Romeo’s crests, it makes me appreciate the work that went into the car.

make me angry in a way best reserved for Netflix Original season finale cliff hangers.

I’m certainly not saying it’s for everyone. But the thought process isn’t explicitly “so you can get a new one every few years.” It’s so you are always under a warranty. Some people have been conditioned to believe that once something is a few years old, it will start costing big money to maintain. You and I both know…

In the Ozarks, a camo truck marks you as a weed grower. Just sayin’.

Really, Koenigsegg Direct Drive is just a modern implementation of the ideas that Buick was pushing through the 1950s, with their torque converter-based transmissions, with the addition of a serial hybrid path for torque.

For most non-enthusiast people the cvt is a great idea: seamlessly keep the engine at its sweet spot. I agree that the execution is suboptimal: no way to change the filter. AND, at least in the Nissan Cube, ‘lifetime’ fluid: they won’t even tell you how to change it. They’re not lying: the fluid will last until the…

As an extreme zealot of the Church of Jalopnik I prostrate myself extremely and recount the Ten Car-mandments from last week:

Here’s a guiltless pleasure:

You may not be the hero we deserve, but you are the hero we want. At least I think that’s how it goes.

Also something something Deuteronomy something.

And he saw the van, and when he had given thanks, he bought it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body-on-frame, which is given for you. Drive this in remembrance of me.”

 Will this time machine make users more regular and support digestion? Someone call Jamie Lee Curtis’ agent...

Outside of Vegas and Reno, Nevada is pretty much just empty land sprinkled here and there with a few little towns where meaningful employment beyond ranching and mining is very limited. So when some company offers to build a billion-dollar factory, yeah, the state is going to play ball.