The egg has aged well. I chose this specific image because it shows the EP3 in base spec for its UK home market, a year before it showed up in the US. Production started in 2000 as a 2001 model. These were homely as a 5-door. The most dated thing about the design is the complete lack of fake vent holes and tacky styli…

Robert Plant - Big Log. A long-distance night drive to see your honey is incomplete without it.

Cut race distance to 40 laps. Award half driver points for that race, and full manufacturer points. Have another 40 lap race with an Ariel Atom spec car or some other such small car. Award half drivers points. Everyone gets to find out who is really the fastest driver.

Make the manuals easier and more of a pleasure to drive, and people might... buy them? Yes, give us some rev-matching, electric park-braking, hill-start-assising, buttery-smooth clutches. It makes a heck of a lot more sense than equipping a 10-speed transmission with paddle shifters (looking at you 2018 Mustang).

Hell yes. Didn’t care for the NBC coverage. Too many breaks. My live solution last year was to watch the UniMas feed, listen to a jacked audio feed from BBC Radio 5, and try to sync them up. The thing I’ll say for UniMas is that commercials play in a split-screen so the race is always visible. Also, the race is…

Valhalla you say? While looking for some cool 4WD converted Volvos, the answer appeared in the Jalopnik archives. The call is coming from inside the house.

Seriously, petition your local public library or county clerk office to become a passport agency. Even if they are only able to offer passport processing during limited hours, it’s an improvement over what you describe.

100% this. The technology has only gotten better with OEM head units supporting USB and improved user interfaces. My Blaupunkt MP56 is nearly 12 years old, and slings tunes from a 64gb bank of songs. The availability of cheap, high capacity thumb drives was key, since portable hard drives were problematic when it got…

My dad (an electrician at FoMoCo in the 60s & 70s) claimed that the 2-way tailgate was the brainchild of one of the guys who worked on the assembly line, not an engineer in Dearborn. The GM cars also had the glass going into the door. On the Fords the glass had to be all the way down for the door to open either way,…

“...and then some stranger tried to close my trunk.”

I picked up a gently used 2002 Si back in 2005. I used to loathe the 15 year old cars I’d owned during the 1990s. Never thought that would happen again, but in 2017 I will be driving a 15-year-old Si. The EP3's biggest sin was not being as fast as a MKIV GTI or Focus SVT. Nobody ever gave this car its due until after…

All Austrians are German, but not all Germans are Austrian.

It was something like this...