I test drive a 500 Abarth and would consider owning one.  I have a friend who purchased a new 124 Abarth, it's a great car though it does have inexplicably short passenger leg room, like several inches less than my Austin Healey Sprite.

Tradesman appears to start at $60k according to the car and driver article I read.  140mile electric range for what I assume is unloaded range.

I'd personally prefer the late 80s style for Benz but their wheel game was on point in the late 90s!  Monoblocks are the Benz wheel.

I daily drive a 1999 BMW M3, and it’s the car I’ve settled in as being the car I appreciate more than any other car I’ve come across. I don’t plan on getting rid of it until it can no longer be driven. It has 190k miles on it and primarily is a winter beater, and summer autocross car as I have an Austin Healey and…

Having recently purchased a Honda to use as a daily to replace my Oldsmobile, I agree with your assessment. I was expecting a quality car with the reputation they enjoy, I was wrong. I believe that the mechanicals are extremely sound and reliable, but everything else is astoundingly cheap. The 09 Civic Si I purchased…

A good badge is fun. The Jeep name stamped into the tailgate of my Comanche is fantastic, full raised letters with contrasting stickers on the raised letters.

My understanding of one of the biggest challenges in burning hydrogen in an engine is actually metallurgical.  Hydrogen embrittlement is a real problem as it attacks steel and titanium, I'm not so sure on aluminum.  Hydrogen is an awesome fuel in many ways, it can theoretically be manufactured very greenly, it burns…

Heated seats. It’s the first control I go for when I start a car after headlights. My parent's Jeep Grand Cherokee has the heated seat controls hidden under 3 layers of menu in the screen, a big downgrade from the slider switch for the heated seats in their 97 Grand Cherokee.

I change my HVAC controls everyday as the temperature in the morning is usually very different than in the afternoon. A lot of the year I use heated seats in the drive to work and A/C on the drive home.  The exception is winter time when it's cold all the time so the heater is set on max.

I’m pretty confident that the cluster was recently swapped with a lower mileage one in the 09 Civic Si I just bought, do I care, nope.  The discrepancy in mileage made the car very cheap and I got a great car which the only fault seems to be many electrical gremlins.

This was my first thought. I considered a Maverick when last year I realized that I really needed a truck in my life. However when I looked at the specs and how large it actually was, I realized what I actually wanted was an old single cab truck. Ended up with a Jeep Comanche with a 6ft bed, 1600 lb payload and 4000…

Jeep has done the same thing BMW did, build a stellar reputation in the 80s, 90s, 00s and since then, they have just been using their old reputation tokens.

I think the Prius is the best looking new vehicle on the market today.  Toyota knocked it out of the park.  Both the front end and rear end are brilliant, even the side profile is good for what counts for automotive styling today.

I’m trying the Sumitomo on my e36 M3 this winter, I’m really looking forward to trying them out.

I once backed my card into the driveway on the snow with Pilot Super Sports.  It made it one foot out of the garage on flat ground and got stuck.  Had to push it back in.  And that was a car with an LSD, two wheels wouldn't make it move.

I’ve run Blizzaks on a few cars, the new tire performance is great but the shine quickly wears off and have very poor performance after about 3/32 of the tread wears off. No other winter tire have I found wears so fast. I generally look for the tires that have the blockiest tread patterns, not the ones with the soft…

I live in Erie, PA, solidly snow belt country. I keep the winter tires on separate wheels in the loft of my barn. Many people put them in their basement or pay a tire shop to store them.

Generally diesel fuel is very stable, a lot more so than modern gasoline with ethanol mixed in. Once you get through the little bit of sludge that might be in the fuel filter, it will most likely run fine.

I own a single cab short bed (6ft) Jeep Comanche, it’s the perfect truck for my needs and I use it weekly as a truck to haul stuff.

I have used sliders that work well but it’s in my 1990 Jeep and has a big chunky plastic piece that’s easy to find by touch and physical detents that are easy to use. Works for both temp control and placement control.