Cool idea for a series. Keep in mind that there are many previously-common cars which were more or less erased from the roads by the Cash4Clunkers program. I was out of the US for over a decade, including the period of the global financial crisis, and later returned to find that many of the cars I’d seen all of my…

I normally shun the slideshows, even if it’s an article I’d be very interested in reading in a normal format. Gotta have standards, ya know. However, this headline was too enticing! I couldn’t help myself... click click click! If ever there was a topic which justified the slideshow format, it’s this one. I even…

Thanks. That’s what I meant, but posted similarly and poorly before I read this far down.

Wrong. Your generalization requires a large pickup truck.

For what it’s worth: Shenzhen, a city of about 16,000,000 people in the south of China, mandated that only electric cars can be used as taxis starting about five years ago. Within one year, all taxi companies switched over (mostly to BYD electric cars), and it was painless. I was living there at that time, and spoke…

Well done!

Say you’re going to spend twenty grand on a car to drive around for a couple of years. You buy a new Kia Rio, and it drives fine. And every time you go out to the parking lot, you find it and get in and drive somewhere. Or you take your twenty grand and buy this thing. It drives fine. And every time you go out to the…

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. As a rider, this is a topic of interest to me. Your efforts are appreciated.

Zhengzhou has grown ridiculously fast recently, having quintupled in population in the past 30 years due to government incentives for manufacturing. I’ve been there many times. Unfortunately, the city grew much faster than the necessary infrastructure, including drainage systems. As in many other booming Chinese…

Am I the only one here who thought this was going to be a slideshow?

Did you like how it looks?

You’re gonna get hate from people for this take, Erik, but relax in knowing that you’re technically correct; the best kind of correct.

Actually, he was married to both. She changed her name professionally to Marilyn Monroe as a model in August, 1946. She divorced him in September, 1946 (while he was in China while serving in the military), so he had a month of being Marilyn’s husband. Dougherty also had a very interesting life aside from this…

I Turo’d a NC Miata hardtop vert for a few days play a few months ago. It was fine and fun. I have no problem with stopping and putting up or down a ragtop, but this was fun to play with and looks better than the not-quite-right lines of most convertibles to my eyes. Didn’t seem to be much quieter inside than a…

Read the headline thinking, ‘Gonna be a slideshow, dammit!’ Maybe I’ll just read the comments. See if Avanti made it. Then...Not a slideshow! Thanks, Jason. Great article. 

AKA the ‘Highway to Hell’?

I always read your stuff, Jason. You’re a legend. But make up your mind; Malcom or Malcolm?

C’mon, you’ve heard the saying: ‘Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the bad’.

Donald Trump often said ‘A lot of people are saying...’ in order to express views he held but wanted to be able to deny. And he was always right. For example, he claimed that claimed that many people believed that Ted Cruz was born in Canada, and everyone knows that’s true. See headline: Ipso facto, F9 is a good movie.

Engine is a Chinese knockoff of an old Honda engine and has a Chinese carburetor. This is not great for several reasons. I have much hands-on experience with Chinese engines and ‘precision’ parts; not usually reliable. Also, modern vehicles use electronic ignition systems instead of carburetors for good reasons…