A direction some companies are going is that it doesn’t automatically unlock with proximity. Instead, you have a button to press on the door handle. No need to get your key out, but no unlocking/relocking based on you walking near your car.

That’s exactly what I hope we see more of. Charge and shop. Charge and eat. Charge and hike. Anything with more than a station for people to just sit and charge.

I don’t think we will see gas station conversions, but we do see a lot of parallels with gas stations in the conversation. Things like Tesla’s Supercharger stations. And people talking about how we need to plan to have enough chargers at the stations, rather than talking about putting chargers everywhere to avoid…

Beyond the obvious parallel between a Tesla store and a dealer, I suspect that someone who speaks English as a second language may use slightly different words than you might find precise enough.

“Hey, we kidnapped your family member. Here’s a bunch of money for the trouble.”

Chargers at rest areas, stores, restaurants, and anywhere else you might want to get out of the car. Not replace gas stations, but make charging more convenient than gassing up.

Frame rust? Wants 65k because of the 40-50k investment plus time? Owner spent about a year with it and wants to sell?

If you want to be covered by your warranty, you should avoid using any of the features of your vehicle. It’s not their fault you used cupholders to hold cups. I can’t even imagine what will happen the first time a BMW driver takes a vehicle in for repairs after using the turn signal. Luckily, we may never see that day.

F1 may no longer be a sport, but the folks involved are pretty heavily invested. They’ll keep racing and hoping something makes it sporting again.

Which is made even weirder by the claim that he owes the dealership for his vehicle. Makes me wonder if it is some sort of scheme to try to ensure they are repaid first and fastest.

Jalopnik Slideshow. Call the critter Jalop or Jalopnik when you are happy with them and bust out the full name when they frustrate you.

These tow companies are awful, but can we also talk about how Washington will allow them to auction vehicles unless they belong to servicemembers? And how a stronger fix to this problem would be to further restrict auctioning off impounded vehicles so that the owner can be found in all cases, not just military folks?…

That is exactly what it looks like. The letters are all aligned in a way that lines up with such a twist.

I sold my Citation in a fairly sketchy deal. My dad lived in a county with no emissions testing. The buyer lived in a county with emissions tests and higher fees on registration. My dad’s buddy set up the deal, and my name stayed off it, but my dad registered it and sold it with the plates on. The buyer just wanted…

I went to a used lot pretty early on in my smartphone owning days. Found a car I liked, test drove it, and asked them about an exhaust rattle. They said they would fix it, but let’s talk numbers. I was a bit uncomfortable, but I figured I could see about what deal we could lock in assuming they could fix it.

I am glad you got to go drive this and tell us all about it. It looks like a lot of fun and you are a good choice for conveying that. That said, it just seems weird to be reading a Jason Torchinsky article on a new supercar instead of taillight design or fixing a Yugo without proper parts.

I guess the dealership thought that might be a tad too ambitious for a pretty-basic used pickup and adjusted accordingly.

The story is that the kid didn’t like what the lot had, so the dealer sold the kid his personal car. Which he owed money on. The dealer repossessed it because the salesman had not paid.

If the dealership doesnt want to give, the public will step up and hook the kid up.

I’m always cautious about mechanic-owned vehicles. Sure, he may be qualified to work on these, but I have known a fair number of mechanics who are rough on their own vehicles, no matter how well they repair the vehicles of others.