How can it smell like leather when it has none unless it’s from that reproduction looking shelby steering wheel? Yes, I know, the original was stolen so I am not faulting it for being there, but if there is any leather in that car that’s where it is. The factory seats are vinyl and should have stopped outgassing…

Anyone who buys new and doesn’t intend to keep the car to where resale value is irrelevant is going to be paying a high price for that anyway. What difference does a couple percent one way or another make? These calculations are meaningless except for those in the industry. It’s not the sort of money that’s going to…

““I think the legislation is very inadequate,” Claybrook said during a panel here on Tuesday.”

For 45 years or so the practice has been to build better idiots. Stop it. Robot cars are just another expression of building better idiots by transference of responsibility and effort on to others. People are lazy in general, if they can transfer effort they will. Like the guy this morning in snowy morning commute who…

Nothing has changed, gawkervese opinion and politics has oozed in through every possible crack into jalopnik for many years.

It’s actually nice that people in the press who get these things are willing to pass them on to people who own the vehicles they are for than simply trash them. $10-20 doesn’t seem unreasonable for the time to make the listing, pack the stuff up, and send it out. If they were asking more than that then sure maybe…

Um... except in NYC they do fire in crowded areas and hit bystanders.

Once you get north of the freeze-and-stay-frozen line cars live longer. Chicago winters keep salt spray in a chemically steel eating state most of the winter as the temperature moves up and down.

I’ve maybe seen one or two in the last fifteen years in the Chicago area. Regular K cars like the Lebaron I see about once or twice a year but Omnis? Nope.

TJ Hooker he’s not.

Because that is what Ford does with just about everything. Seems to be their policy. The cost argument I am not sure if they actually save a dime after tooling up the different lamp assemblies until they’ve made a couple hundred thousand units. 

Since they started disappearing? They started disappearing by me in the late 1980s. Yes, I know they made them until 1990. Sales didn’t seem to keep up with those being scrapped.

Apparently you’re pretty dense. So, you and most everyone else go on with your emotional knee jerk ways as you have been for decades on end. Don’t say I didn’t warn you where it goes.

1) the die-cast heat sink box is an ignition module. Mid-to-late 1970s technology.

If driving is a privilege the granter of that privilege may deny it or revoke it for any reason it wants or no reason. The granter may change the requirements as well. That’s the beauty of privileges, they aren’t rights and allow society to be managed by our betters. That’s why rights are going away in favor of…

No, I live in a giant metro area. I’ve been seeing less and less of large auto transport semi-trucks and more and more of heavy duty big pickup trucks with smaller trailers and fewer cars. Something has already changed in the auto delivery business.

Do you belong to any sort of auto club, credit card, credit union, or any other sort of organization that may have a car buying program? If you do, submit what you want to the program. Someone competent will respond with a price. You might have to go further away from home than you like but it very well can be worth…

How? On the truck that would bring them to the dealership? Many times these days there are new cars being transported in smaller quantities by smaller trucks.

The problem is that a dealership may actually be effectively four separate businesses. New car sales, service, body shop, and used car sales. Each one could be good or bad independently of the others.

If it were only so simple in practice. When the costs to prevent a problem are in one department and the costs of the problem are in another it gets difficult. Try to be the guy who has to justify the cost up for hand scanning against a theoretical (at the time) problem it is supposed to solve. Then with Ford the UAW…