I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Elon’s fanbase and Twitter statements make me glad the natural-born citizenship clause in Article 2 is a thing.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Elon’s fanbase and Twitter statements make me glad the natural-born citizenship clause in Article 2 is a thing.

There were two NSU companies, the original prewar car division based in Heilbronn split off from the main motorcyle maker in Neckarsulm and eventually fell into building licensed Fiats as seen here. What had been the motorcycle division decided to branch back into cars in the late ‘50s with the Prinz, there was a…

(sighing) Acktshually... The VAZ-2101 was heavily reengineered for Soviet conditions. Thicker steel, heavier-duty suspension components, simpler but more effective brakes and so on. If Fiat had built a 124 pickup they probably would’ve started with the mods they made to the Lada. 

I’d build the current-gen 500 Abarth for the US market and headhunt some QC people from Toyota. Along with the people who specced actual amber-lensed rear turn signals for the kouki NCP91 Yaris and zenki ASA44 RAV4.

It looks like it was made to  fit kei body-size requirements and the standard JDM Mira is a keicar. Usually there’s a bigger export engine and sometimes that’s offered as an option in Japan. 

In ‘09 the Fremont plant was still NUMMI and making Pontiac Vibes, Tesla didn’t even have that yet.

Too late to edit, but as I suspected I was wildly optimistic.

‘70s Lincoln? Comfy? Nope. Maybe for the first few moments, but all Fomoco passenger cars before 2000 (except Euro- or Mazda-sourced ones and bench seat work trucks) had negative lumbar support that forced you to slouch and induced backache within 20 miles.

I wonder how much those wheels and tires are worth on the resale market, that would be a big factor. If they’re high-end enough to net a grand after the cost of replacement with steelies and cheap all-seasons (assuming seller doesn’t still have the stock ones) that pushes you into the territory where any non-wrecked…

Fun fact; Those used a German-built Chevy Stovebolt Six, right down to a license-made (well, there had been a license before the war) Delco distributor. Same dizzy was made by Bosch for these (and Lucas for Bedfords) that was designed in Detroit for Chevys.

“Hey Bob, quit talking about mud and snow, ya know we don’t sell these things;”

El Mujito’s the car-based pickup derived from the regular Mujito.

I still think it’s a shame they didn’t go with Washington Placeholders as a temporary name.

I’m surprised nothing like that was ever offered for the Dodge Shadow/Plymouth Sundance. 

Ever wondered why Nissan and GM built their EVs with FWD?

I’m not sure if the Void of Darkness is the best place to photograph an open-topped fun car, though. But replace the bedliner with regular paint outside and plastic inside and it would look like something Jeep might’ve actually built in the DaimlerChrysler era. 

One of the things dealers do that keeps cars dull is jacking up the price of anything the least bit interesting or fun until long after the buzz is gone. Hot hatchbacks get hit hardest of all because they’re tied to the mass-market model’s product cycle and the go/no-go decision for bringing the *next* generation into…

I always thought Pontiac’s model policy for the Phoenix made a lot of sense. Two doors and a trunk, or four doors and a hatch. Do you want to optimize weight and shell stiffness, or versatility?

They’ve made you an offer after having misread “Mercedes Streeter” as “Mercedes Sprinter”, haven’t they?