Awesome. I’d take this over a $15K BMW 750 eight days a week.

This was one of the first things I was taught after moving to the United States. I have never played it on an airplane, but definitely in a DMV and also on trains.

I don’t want to seem like a gatekeeper or something, but I truly do not for a second believe Andy has any sort of interest in cars. Working for Jalopnik is just a job, and probably a shitty one at that. Learn how to do DOB filings and we will pay you 50% more!

I think Italy will be better off if they can get the €500,000 fine than owning a yacht.

Thanks to their system, if you can afford to splurge and have a car it is actually pleasant to drive. Meanwhile, if you cannot afford it there are countless better options. Carrots AND sticks tend to work best.

Word. The used car markets will only get weirder and weirder as only the wealthiest people can afford new cars, and their choices are wildly undesirable to used car buyers.

I used to daily a Peugeot 505 Turbo S in Denver and there were two Polish brothers who only worked on Peugeots (their garage had an MG logo, too, but I never saw anything positive earth there) - the older brother retired two decades ago and I figure the shop is long gone by now, but they were my fav mechanics ever.

NYC cabbies only lurch crazily. They constantly risk your life, somehow without making much progress at all.

I have the misfortune of owning a 2003 Ford Focus Wagon, and it is absolutely awful (nowhere near as bad as the new EcoSport I drove, but still). Every single time Ford got to make a decision, they made the wrong choice. You can’t get fresh air through the vents because everything passes over the heater. You can’t get…

Rear drums are perfectly okay for most non-racing applications. So little brake power goes to the rear that discs can actually pose a problem - due to underuse, calipers and discs may rust and seize. Right tool for the job and all that.

Well, the stereotypical convicted drunk driver seems to be a white male so I don’t think this is an area of bias. DUI is kind of a slam dunk for cops and DAs (easy to win, popular) so they don’t tend to let people off - unless the offender is law enforcement or cop adjacent, then laws obviously don’t apply.

Is there a ditch + youtuber icon?

1998 HSV SS Group A (not sure what the price is on one of those, though...). Or any of the HDT or HSV Holdens for that matter.

I love the thought of some low income retiree in Nogales, AZ, being given a half-primered G37 with a purple clip-on bumper, fried tires on mismatched alloys, acrylic shift knob, snap-crackle-pop exhaust, and midnight tint on all the windows.

I mean, Bollinger did it, so it must’ve been a good idea.

I think the vending machines were marginal, and best considered a marketing stunt - I think that part actually paid off in terms of publicity.

I don’t mean this as a put-down, but if you want the same thing that everyone else wants, then you will have to pay more for it.

Working as a “driver” in one of these cars sounds absolutely horrible. “I’m just here to train my replacement, don’t mind me.”

Yes, and when it is seamless one doesn’t realize that one is being surveilled and sold to. It’s when the system misfires that you see how the machinery operates, like if a friend talks about going on a cruise or buying BRATZ dolls near your phone and you start getting targeted ads based on that.

No searching, it was my brother talking (he wants port glasses and just bought a $1000 sailboat - trying to WASP it up a bit) as neither of us were in the market for glassware. That’s what made it clear, because luxury glassware was nowhere on our radar at the time. But as per a commenter above it was just as likely…