If nothing else, it’s not worth performing as long as it’s in service as a police car. Might as well send it to auction as it is, 2-3 years from now, and let whoever buys it at auction do what they will with it. That usually means a back seat from a junkyard (I once looked at buying a CVPI with a nice plush…

I’ve long had a Berenstein/stain Bears-like memory of Ferris Bueller’s, that the first time I saw the movie in the theater back in the ‘80s when the Ferrari was at the bottom of the ravine you could clearly see the broken chunks of fiberglass making its’ body and the VW pan the whole thing sat on.

I know nicknames for Golf generations haven’t really been a thing, but can we call this one the “Grumpy Cat” Golf?

“The next time a dealer tries to charge you for this ask them to send a picture of their Nitrogen fill tank, most of the time they ‘can’t find it.’”

The story here is that a no-hoper (3% of likely GOP primary voters, that’s 1.5% of all likely voters in GA) candidate for a state office has a mofo WRAPPED BUS instead of a clapped-out minivan with hand-painted signs. Who’s funding her?

Here I was thinking the way to make it bleaker would be to move it to the US so the Satsuma would have 5 MPH bumpers and authentic mid-’70s emission-control/automatic-choke-all-the-things drivability problems.

“Old Fart Top Gear”, gotta remember that. I usually call the pre-Clarkson, really old Top Gear “MotorWeek UK” as well. 

One clip that sticks in my mind that’s actually one of the less gory ones (not sure which specific film it was from or how it was bracketed, I saw it in a documentary on these whose title I can’t remember) showed a 1957 Ford that was recognizable as such due to an almost-undamaged headlight/grille/bumper area even…

“...the Ford Integrated Tether System (FITS).”

So the name won’t fly but can we please have pickups in colors like baby blue and lemon-pie-filling yellow with white steelies *and white dog-dish hubcaps* again please” I’m so sick of everydamnthing being Fragile Masculinity Black or Settle-For-Silver.

Never did the put ‘em to bed dressed for the next day trick as a parent but after transferring from Catholic to public school for seventh grade I did pick my school clothes the night before for the next day and lay them out until I got used to the whole not-having-a-school-uniform thing.

On the new side the industry’s already been phasing out their entry-level models since about 2015-16.

They need to learn to park their cars in  a normal parking space, TURN THE ENGINE OFF, and then go in.

The stock steelies for these are closer to wagon wheels than the spare-type ones on the prototype. Just a matter of painting them white. 

American J-car wagons were just different enough - real bumpers and a necessary 2" or so lip that the bumper was higher than the load floor, thinner C-pillars without fake(?) vents - that I suspect they were part of the program from the start* and Holden had no part in them.

Is that another one of those “just make it a damn hatchback” things? For some reason I always thought the SM actually was one. 

If you get into your Equinox and the seats don’t match, take a picture and IMMEDIATELY have it documented on the rental contract! You really don’t want Hertz to hold you responsible for that...

If anything it was the most apt fleet-pool car Bond has driven since someone at some Hertz counter handed him the keys to an AMC Hornet.

The Dart was launched as the wrong body style. They should’ve sent in the hatchback we ended up never getting *first*, sidled into the segment that way (at the time the Civic and Corolla were sedan-only, the Honda Fit’s a size smaller and the Toyota Matrix was on its’ second generation that had been beaten with the…

Vermont here. Starting to see a few show up. I’d assume I’d be seeing a lot more if everybody who plumped for one so far got immediate delivery.