The Jalopnik writers seem to have missed:

Not only surprisingly popular, hydrogen is key to Japan’s national energy planning for the foreseeable future. I see the Jalopnik writers are not energy policy people but I would think that someone at Toyota would tell them if they asked good questions.

I find this very odd as a case - establishing cause like this will presumably lead to lawsuits against high-emitting industries and against actual illegal polluters. However in the case of co-morbidity and causation, there are a number of factors and a principal or immediate cause. For example, my 87-year-old mother…

No, that’s quite correct. It’s 8 cylinders vs 4 cylinders and also the 928 in N America was assigned the pokiest engine Porsche may have developed since tractors, a 4.5 L producing 220hp for a 4,000 pound-ish grand tourer. Think underwhelming for lots of money, very ‘Euro version of big American tourer’ engine. Zero…

You may be an exception - I’m looking at the $35 - 45K price range on a $10K down payment + 36 months of financing basis, and the monthly payments are much higher. If you move your financing term out to 8 years or whatever insanity, you can get to your one percent rule without a down payment.

Yup, Golf R is more, and I imagine with a few options the XC40 will come out around the same-as. Competition would be the base Audi right? They seem aiming at 10-15% less expensive if so.

I was 22, hitchhiking outside of Budapest and going north to Poland - this was in a suburb to get to the highway, pretty early in the day. Stereotypical kid in a Lada pulls over, long hair, Soviet cigarettes, no English, mom jeans because no Levi’s. You know the type.

Probably all about the functionality - stability in flight, extra armour, extra concentrated extra firepower, duplication of duplicated systems...who cares what it looks like when you’re done with that process.

Maybe of jets but I would have to say Mitsubishi Zero is my choice for Miata of the skies...

$kaycog is a guy? Oh. Okay. [sad face]

Ooooh, I like Stanley. Unfortunately he’s in the Bay Area and this happened in LA...

The Nissan owner wasn’t in imminent danger - the assailant was running away - and the biker hurt his property, not his person. The car owner could be charged in most states with a variety of offenses, perhaps more serious ones than the biker. You don’t just hurt people because you feel like it - even if you’re an…

Hatch. Is. Life. How could you, Mercedes Man, how COULD you?

+1 in Canada. I’d settle for many new things but the Polo GTI is first in the line of want.

Excellent point. Like COTD excellent.

I disagree that Focus is ‘almost as nice inside’. Four years in to my Golf, I still appreciate the fit and finish. I have a few design niggles but a friend gave me a ride in his new Focus ST recently and...I stopped considering the Ford for a next car. The other thing is cargo room...as a Golf owner I’ve cross-shopped…

Exactly. Attitudes are different in Canada - government actually does its job of forcing both sides to the table equally to hammer it out, unlike the management-first US policy - so unions have had a slower time to reckoning here. It could be ugly this time and it’s really the sunk costs keeping the plants here. I…

Mine too - 15k kilometers is the oil change intereval on my 2.0 TDI and burns about the same. Strangely it only started consuming oil when I passed 70k KM, which I assume is down to me driving it too hard somewhere.

Right, never mind about availability questions, just re-read your post. I smart.

That’s impressive. I assume that’s not offered in N America? We have the Mazda 2 in Canada but the KODO looks like sumpin’ else. I’d use my TDI buyback money on that maybe.