The average German auto worker makes twice what the average American one does. While you do have to factor in higher taxes (the rate is 42% above around 52k Euro for single, about 100k Euro household), German auto workers also benefit from universal healthcare and near universal mass transit (no need for expensive…

Elon Musk-speak translation: “Screw George Hotz, I’ll make my own, better self-driving car. And I’ll do it in two years! With blackjack, and hookers! In fact, forget the car!”

Is this really likely to be thrashed the same way as your off-road-only or barely-road-legal bike, though? I kind of feel like something in this category is for the person looking more for a high level of off-road accessibility (i.e., off-roading to actually get somewhere / do something) but also something that’s far…

Thanks. That about covers it - a $100,000 2002 Tii, wow. Figured this was something special.

On the one hand: a thing of beauty. On the other, I am very curious...

Even if it ends tragically, this one’s going to be good to watch unfold. A truly epic undertaking.

The exhaust note will be the furious roar of Jalopnik commenters decrying, for the 18th time, The Death Of Real Cars(TM).

I mean, not that this post is about justifications, but wanting to have this conversation regardless, I agree. The British auto market is probably the most saturated on earth for small sports cars and has been since the early British roadsters of the 1950s. It’s no small wonder he just considers it “meh,” and I say…

Snarkiness aside, I lol’ed hard at this.

A BMW dealer in SoCal (BMW Valencia, I think) does this too. It’s obnoxious, but I bet it’s effective advertising for your typical new-BMW customer.

Authenticity coolness exemption: granted.

From the person who clearly didn’t watch more than a minute of it. He has plenty of valid points and, frankly, Astons DO get far too much of a pass from frothing fanboys who are only concerned with the looks and the noise they make. At the end of the day, that car clearly sucks at being a car in almost every sense. It…

I loved this game, but am terrified to go back and replay it because I know those visuals have not aged well.

With your consent, I can understand that. If someone hacked off a piece of my car, crappy ABS plastic or otherwise, I’m getting a replacement, period.

Well, they actually are valuable relative to their original MSRPs: they’re very popular, they have very little depreciation because they’re reliable, and because they’re reliable, they stay on the road a long time, and because they stay on the road a long time there’s a HUGE market for used parts out there. You could…

The crazy cat ladies of the car world. Nailed it.

“My budget is $11,000 FIRM Ford could totally sell a stripped out Fiesta ST with for that I have my buddy who will flash it to 300hp for free or like close to free and he’s got the hookups on coilovers and we’re going to do a backyard muffler delete because RACECAR and take it out to the drag strip and blow up mustang…

Yeah, I tend to think “hand made” means “because of low-volume production, it would in no way be economically feasible to build robots and machines to do all of this for us, so we put a meatbag on the line instead.”

You don’t often see the Model S being lambasted for its inadequate cargo volume - it doesn’t seem baaaaad at all. I’d be a bit sheepish about putting livestock in there - maybe I woold, maybe I wouldn’t. Look at me, I’m really rambling on about this like a bleating ninny. But as The Donald would, that frunk is…

Yeah, not exactly cheap, but still: you’re getting a lot for your money.