That’s a switch. Usually working on Audis gives people PTSD.

What, you expected me to READ the article? This is still Jalopnik, right?

I’d second the Lexus ES suggestion. Do not underestimate the value of quietness as a criteria for selecting a commuter car. Surprisingly, I’ve found that the sound level has a lot more to do with my fatigue level after a commute than even ride comfort. Most cars have a pretty decent ride these days, but a really quiet…

I was at the 71 Bridgehampton Can - Am. Both the PA 917 and the 712 were there. And yes both made marvelous sounds. .... and you could sometimes hear them over the rest of the field. But those sounds were nothing compared to the sounds at the start of the race with the full field crossing the start line and…

It’s amazing that there are other cars on the track that are, at times, closer to the camera, but you can STILL hear that Ferrari over the top of them!

Aaaah, Can Am. How we miss you and your utterly fantastical racing machines. I can’t think of another road-racing series that saw as much slap-happy shenanigans as Can Am. Only F1's late 70's antics by the Tyrell P34 come close, IMO.

You’re testing my historic Ferrari sportscar racing geekiness this week.

In ‘71, Porsche was actually running the 917 PA Spyder in Can-Am, not the turbo cars. Naturally aspirated 4.5L Flat-12 with only 580 gerbils, it’s almost like they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into at the time.

On a car this old, I don’t even consider mileage. Condition is everything. Besides, VWs are like Legos. When this engine finally gives out (probably somewhere around 500k miles), you can easily just plop in a cheap ABA (“2.slow), 1.8T, or VR6, and just keep going.

I don’t know, maybe “redevoloped” in Aussie means something other than it does to me. There was an article about Americans needing translations in WWII up yesterday round these parts...

Then word came through that Nissan was redeveloping its 2.8-litre six from the 280ZX into a special 3.0-litre engine...

The website that runs “Nice Price or Crack Pipe” bought a horrible Yugo for $1500.

$1500? Man, your coworkers got ripped off.

Buy 4runner, borrow the Odyssey from the library.

really more of a “I’m going to cash in on this bubble” price, when you consider a fully restored 1965 (earliest model year) is asking $259,900 you see where they come up with these prices

William Towns: “Damn, I did a great job on the Lagonda. I couldn’t have made those lines any straighter.”

Oh god, let me dig it out of my auto design archives...

Q: How many Japanese cars sold in America were transverse FWD in the late ‘70s when GM supposedly saw their advancements and tried to compete by incorporating those ideas in the FWD X program? Let’s say the decision to engineer these cars as FWD came in 1977 - 2 years before the X-Cars launched.

Yep, this is exactly what Fiat/Chrysler needs to be spending money on. Not a competitive SUV/CUV for Dodge, any type of mid size sedan for either Dodge or Chrysler, hybrid tech for their current fleet of cars or trucks, or, heaven forbid, a replacement for a the Charger/Challenger/300, which is over a decade old.…

So the automotive equivalent of taking a pee and then announcing “ I lost some weight!”. Factually correct, but really?