As socialist schemes go, the clunker for bike scheme seems like a winner.

Obviously, they didn’t price it high enough.

Adam Smith balls his invisible hand into a fist and shakes it at cloud as the French government pays off airlines $4 billion of its taxpayer’s money to go away.

If the French rail system is so darn great, why must the French government ban competitive air travel. This smacks of socialism - at best - and crony capitalism at its root. Whatever happened to Liberté, égalité, fraternité?

A friend who works at a GMC dealer tells me that they are getting limited Sierra inventory. No reason given. Plant issues, chip shortages?

My apologies Ducky, but I have to top that. Back in the day, Dodge invited all the journos to its Chelsea Proving Grounds to introduce the Dodge Omni Shelby GLH-S, which was an amazingly fast turbocharged version of their incredible craptastic Omni. They crammed as many bodies as could fit in one car - five or six…

Adventure writer’s price: $15,000 per lap.

28% was the limit for car loans in many states a few years back, but limits may have changed. Of course, if you pawn something you may be paying hundreds of percent interest to get it back...

RIP Mr. Asada. A car guy’s car guy.

No. 37% interest is criminal.

Wide World of Sports, “Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports... the thrill of victory... and the agony of defeat... the human drama of athletic competition...”

Both cars are hardly bland, and are in fact iconic, as they are associated with well known stories or milestones for people of a certain age. 

When your son is 25, do you really want to be there when he decides it was all wrong for him and says, “Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the f***ing Peace Corps.”

To be fair, it’s a really interesting story.

Do it !

I’d say that kit car people are the most car people. Building a car in your garage, where you touch and assemble all of the systems in all of their mechanical good - or bad - ness is the most intimate way of becoming familiar with a car you can have - short of designing and building a car perhaps.

Beautiful color. Six speed manual. At that price, I’ll take it to the Ferrari specialist around the corner, throw $5,000 or so at them and say make it perfect (with the Cats, etc.) Now, if I could only come up with 70k.

I don’t quite understand why Erik, and to be fair, a lot of other media outlets are treating “retail” investors as if they are a new item.

Steinbeck’s description of re-babbiting the crankshaft on the old truck by the side of the highway in Grapes of Wrath is pure Jalopnik. I believe David Tracy, masterful though he is, longs for the opportunity to perform such an epic roadside repair. Though to be fair, it was fictional.

Oh God said to Abraham, “Kill me a son”