Nice, take your star

Worked at a chain tire store (a good one at that) and this was the approved method.  We had flip impacts that worked perfect and never needed replacement.  In fact, they worked better used than new.

After $10k in parts, sure its a great engine.  There are two of them sitting in puddles of oil at my in laws and a 7.3 with 300k on it.

The used market diesel tax is so insane these days that it has completely turned me away from the idea of owning one. $10k+ premiums on anything that isn’t a 6.0-6.4. People wanting $40k for a 10 year old vehicle that was barely $40k new.

Should have started caring decades ago if you wanted to do something about it. This thing is a death trap and its a damn good thing no one is working around it. When is the last time it was even meaningfully functional with all the disrepair it has been in. Hell, it was built into a natural sinkhole to begin with.…

There is a real Dodge Caliber done up at work in a similar fashion.  Its done well, I just don’t know why you would invest the money.

Where we are there can be up to $2000 worth of repaired “damages” to a new vehicle before it has to be declared. The body shop I worked at somehow nearly every vehicle needed $1900 worth of work.

Just make sure to add license plate holes to that option list as well.  I’m sure you can trust me to drill them on my own...

Its going to be like Torch always recommending something ridiculous isn’t it. We’re going to get a SMART for every one of these aren’t we...

That’s...not true at all. California (and specifically LA) is spiking hard. They have a high mask adoption rate, mandatory mask laws, and antidotal evidence shows nearly everyone wearing them at all times (even driving alone...).

Weird, I always thought those were German specs...

Not to mention that despite Apple allowing ads to be targeted based on the IDFA, its not Apple doing the targeting. If you allow FB or Google access to your IDFA, they are often the ones serving up the data, Apple is just a host.

That's quite ironic.

Yea, but all the cars in those states seem to require your car being a giant advertisement for the dealer it was bought from.

Really enjoying that plate.  Seems surprising coming out of New Hampshire.

I’m not sure its any secret at all how epic it was. It wasn’t just ahead of its time, it felt like light years ahead. Anyone who was any kind of skyline fan knew all about this.

Maybe for some low volume manufacturer, but that hasn’t been the case in many years. 20 years ago working in a body shop, you had multiple versions of every manufacturer color. Nearly all of them were to account for whatever color was sprayed through the system prior (ie, a little more yellow, or a little more blue).…

Two out of three car buyers are open to a 100 percent online buying experience, a study from AutoTrader reports.

Apparently most people here don’t get that despite it being “real leather”, you don’t actually touch animal skin in nearly any modern vehicle outside of RR. Nearly everything (including some branded as Napa Leather) is fake. Any cases where you have real leather, its so coated with synthetic product that you don’t…

I just had to check.  Looks like my first oppo post was 2012.  Have been around Jalopnik since the Spinelli days.  Rory isn’t the problem.  I don’t doubt he will do a fine job.  But the whole purpose of Jalopnik was to have equal parts real reporting and memes.  The C7 reveal, actual car reviews (and lots of them) and…