Sour Apple, Fruit Punch, Mango and Coconut

I didn’t intend for my comment to have an “insidious subtext”, so I will apologize for making some poorly-founded assumptions about you. I’ve seen so many people from both sides of the aisle trying to silence each other recently that I started automatically associating political speech with anti-1st amendment speech.…

I say this as a word of advice, and not as a political comment - if you really are unhappy to be an American, and think you would enjoy living in Germany more, please move to Germany. It will make both yourself and your countrymen happier to see you in a place that better reflects your personal political beliefs.

The subcompact market has a lot of buyers who are going to be left with nowhere to go as the established marques abandon the segment.

Hey Max,

I try to make use of junkyard parts whenever possible, because just like Andrew I like to tell myself that the junked car lives vicariously through mine.

“we’re living in a libertarian capitalist dystopia”

Jalopnik - the “car blog” that hates cars!

Jalopnik has sadly went down the tubes in the last half decade or so. I really hope they realize that a significant portion of their audience is here for whimsical car articles and not enraged liberal propaganda. It’s really making the website an unpleasant place.

As I can see that you are trying to drag me into a political argument, exactly the thing I’m opposing, this will be the last reply that I will write for this thread.

I would accept that criticism if this was an unusual occurrence, but I can pretty much plan on seeing 2-3 politically slanted articles every day on Jalopnik nowadays. Circa 2010, I would only see politically biased stuff maybe once a month on Jalopnik, and it was never as blatantly anti-America as it is now. Alanis…

You all need to stop putting politics before cars if you are going to call yourselves an automotive blog. I come here to celebrate cars with likeminded enthusiasts, not to listen to politically-charged lectures.

I think you are taking the quote from the Historical Vehicle Association out of its context.

>Huge Touchcreen On Dash

These articles are so ridiculously bunk. The people that write these do know that car shows and meets as we know them today largely didn’t exist in the ‘50s and ‘60s, right? And that events like the Goodguys shows and PowerTour are pulling way bigger numbers this millennium than the last, right?

No, not really. Performance really isn’t a relevant metric anymore for individuals who aren’t car enthusiasts, and most of the U.S. population has no interest in it as a result.

To be fair, I don’t think greenlighting the Cascada in the U.S. was anyone’s first choice, I get the sense that like the G8 before it the Cascada was a last ditch attempt to save Opel-Vauxhall by cost-amortizing one of it’s products in the United States. It failed, and as such you are right, it wasn’t a worthwhile inve…

I think a series on all of the weird Ford and Chevy trucks/suvs made in Brazil would be cool. 

What car should I buy to learn manual on under $5k?

As someone who attended the National Association of Automobile Museum’s national conference last year, as well as volunteer at my local auto museum, I think there’s a variety of different reasons as to why some museums might be seeing a downturn in ticket sales.