They would love to get out of their parents basements if they could afford a house in the economy baby boomers fucking destroyed.

Don’t use bungee straps. Use ratcheting straps. LOTS of ratcheting straps.

Just the other day I had to dodge the exhaust that fell off of someone’s rusted out pickup. One of the few times I had wished Michigan had vehicle inspections. I think the other is following drivers that are on completely bald tires...

Dear ‘Murricans on Jalopnik - please stop being stupid. Can You? Please?

Other cars entering my following distance wouldn’t piss me off nearly so much if they would just SIGNAL.

This, a million times, this! I love Jeeps, I’ve owned a Wrangler and an XJ with some mods, but “fuel economy” and “Jeep” do not compete, and while I know some people buy them, often they find out the harsh reality is, well, they’re built for harsh reality, NOT for most people’s commutes or pocketbooks if they drive…

When reached by Kotaku, the Ford dealership said they didn’t know what we were talking about.

Can we call CUVs what they are please? Denial Minivans. I call them DMv’s for short; and like the DMV, I hate them with the heat of a thousand suns. People who drive them (“driving” is just what they think they’re doing, I don’t know if science has yet identified what they’re actually doing) are the worst of the worst…

doctors have a nickname for another type of head injury: partition face. It’s what happens when a back-seat passenger riding in a cab doesn’t bother to wear a seat belt.

This is a good point and I have this conversation with my clients often. They come to me with a target payment, but also a price range that doesn’t match up. So we have to have a conversation about what their budget really is and work backwards to find a car that fits.

As a Mercedes salesman, the “what do you want your payment to be” is actually helpful for me and them, at least for people who are new to luxury cars. I know I’m more ethical than a lot of salespeople, but when I ask them, I’m not out to screw them, but only want to see if their expectations are realistic. If you want…

Quick summary for the impatient:

The Zoo is an interesting place. I-94 is usually the center of many episodes of ruckus that happens there. From flying Lazy Boys to tons of cars crashing in the snow.

Parking my car over a sewer gate and getting out and dropping my keys.

It really depends on the engine type. Doing that on a turbo Subaru motor will kill it, but 10,000 miles between changes when using synthetic on a typical N/A engine these days is totally fine according to most used oil analyses, performance cars aside.

Look, kid, any other day, I’d step in here and show you how to swing

Neutral: Will Autonomous Cars Make Traffic Worse?

I’m not a legal expert, but I’m like 99% sure he’ll end up being forced to coach a hocky team of ragtag misfits. From what I’ve seen in the movies it usually works out surprisingly well.