I drove the Lancia Yuplsion which is based on the 500 with its base engine as a rental car in Italy. It was really great fun. 5 speed manual with a 65 hp 4 cylinder. Not fast, but you had to work it to drive it anywhere.

Sounds like a great deal on a nice truck, enjoy it!

I do enjoy Fasterproms as well, they did a particularly nice job puthing together the smart car.  It's no project Binky, but their attention to detail and actually willing to share it with the audience is wonderful.   I love both shows.  I stop what ever I'm doing when BOM drops a new episode, they are that good.

I feel like this is karma for the Consumer Reports deliberate roll overs of the Suzuki Samurai. 

I frequently drive my Austin Healey Sprite, I am frequently imposed on in traffic as others don’t see it down below the belt line of their car.  When I am in heavy traffic I tend to down shift and let the engine give an audible warning of my presence. It’s a noisy and raucous 1098 cc Sprite so it let’s itself be…

I had this happen to me a couple years ago in my 1962 Austin Healey Sprite. I was running down a big straight 2 lane (1 each way) 55 mph road. Coming the other way a vehicle pulled out from behind a box truck to pass and never saw me even though I had my headlights on. I laid on the horn and so did several other cars.…

We were a bit aggressive with our valve timing so idle can't be super low. I have the idle set to 750 rpm right now, the stock timing of the engine would have been 650.  It has successfully idled as low as 200 rpm but that is really really bad for the crank bearings as the oil pump wouldn't be building any pressure.

My ludicrous project car was already featured on Jalopnik.

This! And it’s a good thing, the tC has one of the best C pillars ever put into production. Of most modern cars, the tC is one of the best looking ones in my book.

Can we take a moment and appreciate the beautiful side profile this car has? It isn’t blobby and bloated like many current cars, rather it has defined straight lines that give it a stately presence.  Also it has borrowed one of the best C pillar shapes in the business.   I'm not sure who did it first but the Scion tC…

Im with you, as a late 20s luddite who needs a clutch pedal and shift lever to enjoy truly driving.

This is exactly what I am looking for in an electric car. Some way to make the drive more engaging. I really want an electric car, but don’t want to give up the joy of a manual transmission. Manual transmission are what make driving fun to me, period. I’ve driven fast automatic and electric cars, their novelty wears…

Ubless networking gets way better, I don’t see how Skype/Webex can replace going to work and visiting customers. This working from home thing has been a frustrating effort in dealing with crappy connections and super slow file transfers.  I went into the office the other day to get a reprieve from the miserable…

I really wanted, and still do want an e36 M3 in Dakar Yellow. Unfortunately they command an extra $5k because everyone wants one.

I have a friend who has no problem with minivans but does have a vendetta against Uplander.  Apparently they were terrible. 

My non car friend once randomly started a conversation and said she wishes her Jeep Renegade had the hvac controls from her old PT cruiser. She hates the touch screen and just liked the simplicity of the three know setup.

Indeed. I work for a well known highly diversified industrial company.  They just did roughly the same thing GM, by reducing salaried pay but not laying any one off.  The difference is they also reduced the work week instead of keeping the same work week with promise to make up lost pay. 

A test drive is what told me that I didn’t want to order a new Mini. In 2016 I was torn between three cars, 1) order a brand new Mini hardtop JCW, 2) Buy a 2013 (previous gen chassis Mini hardtop JCW used, or 3) Buy a clean BMW e36 M3. In one afternoon I test drove all three back to back, and I found out that the new…

Sounds like Deawoo in the US.

I don’t think I belong in this discussion.