My 94 miata has double wishbone front and back, so “packaging” and “cost” are pretty poor excuses for BMW not having it in the front. Its almost feels like an antiquated holdover they they never bothered to design out cuz it works “good enough”. As an engineer... I can respect that, even if I don’t like it.

No need for the absolute lowest price, just a competitive price will do. I bought my car in 07 from an email quote. Got a quote from a dealer, shopped it around, found it lowest in the area, went in and paid that number. No haggling. My parents did the same thing a couple years ago. They actually went to dealerships…

I was wondering when there’d be the real world equivelent of “beginner mode” in Forza. All you gotta do is hit the gas and steer and the computers handles all finicky stuff for you.

But you have all the paperwork saying who the first owner actually was. If you are even the least bit meticulous about keeping your paperwork then you just need to add on your records to that tome of documentation. Or... you know, drive it till it (or you, or both) die.

Cash is king for private, in person transactions. Unless you’re dealing with something in the 10’s of thousands of dollars (in which case, get both your asses to a bank and hash out the funds there), cash is the only way to make sure everything is on the up and up at least as far as the transaction is concerned.

Most readers of Jalopnik probably have a mechanic they frequent. Ask the mechanic if you could run the transaction in front of or near the shop. This may or may not work depending on where this shop is located (down a dead end alleyway isn’t exactly on my list of “safe locations”), but for any mechanics located closer…

Tiff Nadell, Rowan Atkinson, and Kari Byron. Boom. They all can drive well enough, but I think they all are in their own wheelhouse (so to speak) when it comes to skills. That would make for some pretty good comedy in the long run.

Now... I don’t ride motorcycles at all, but having had to start a variety of 2 strokes with pull starts I’m wondering of the solution would be to have some kind of winding mechanism built into the kickstarter. Instead of having to kick down hard to turn the motor over why not have a geardown with means you kick it…

Oooooo a Marvin themed Miata would be PERFECT.

I was driving along side a QX80 on the highway once and all I thought was “damn that’s one ugly-ass whale”.

I’ve been to a half dozen track days and you know how many spins I’ve seen? 3, and one of them was me. The field was full of pretty newb or intermediate drivers with a handful of experts (yup, I was one of the newbs). Its fully possible to drive on the edge (or slightly over it) and not look like a total idiot. Its a…

I saw that red miata the first time around and went “yup, he’s gonna spin”. Sure enough, he spun. Not that I’ve got anything bad to say about it... I’ve spun a miata at Thunderhill. Lift off oversteer is a bitch on a short wheelbase car. That’s what I get for going from my portly AWD sedan with summers to my friend’s…

Smart AI isn’t godlike AI, its an AI that behaves in a believable manner. That could be acting very smart, or it could mean acting dumb. If you’re going against a squad of super soldiers then you expect them to behave as such. If you’re going up against a security guard on his first day at work then expect some…

What would insurance be on a beast like this? Age is on your side, but repair costs are totally against you. You so much as ding this car and I think the insurance company would run the salvage title to you so fast it would make your head spin. I've never dealt with mass deprecated ubersaloons before, so maybe…

They should have taken the Batman/Spiderman take on grapple physics. At least they attempt at realism with a swing instead of what amounts to a really slow version of Dishonored’s “Blink” ability. A “grapple save” would be awesome in most games though, but I think it would have be a special skill where you’d…

YES. I need an excuse to break out my stick from back in Starlancer/Freelancer/Freespace days. Too bad my Microsoft Force Feedback no longer works with windows (damn game port...), but I think I've got a USB Saitek somewhere.

Its hella flush, and yet somehow looks right... That's a first. That may just be because the wheels actually fit the tires, and the camber isn't cranked to some insane angle.

I'm convinced Corollas are either a) For people who need a cheap ass used car to get by (cool, cuz everyone's been there) or b) People who want to buy a cheap ass new car and know absolutely nothing about cars and never will care to learn (not cool). There's one of each at my company. I respect the girl with the…

Nope... no Yes song. Glad I still have my HW1 CD somewhere...

Learning curve is pretty shallow, and after playing through HW1 Remastered I can honestly say its MUCH easier than I remembered. HW2 has its difficult points, but that mainly has to do with its unit limits. in HW1 if you get good with all your salvage corvettes then your fleet will be massive in no time. Also, that…