Just replaced brakes and rotors on the Sentra. The one caliper has been stuck for awhile, so I swapped it out for a RockAuto reman. Good thing too, because it had eaten one of the pads well into the backing plate, producing this beautiful bouquet of iron filings collected on the magnetic ABS hall effect sensor.

It's pretty awesome that the warranty is transferrable. I'm sure the original Tesla test mules have a ton of kilometers on them by now, so they should know it's a pretty safe bet.

I went with the orange, blacked out all the chrome I could find, and then topped it with a minty jade interior.

Okay, okay, okay. Jokes are jokes, but these guys have finally gone far enough.

Isn't the Cobalt torsion-beam rear? I wonder if they did the old B14 SE-R trick of building a complicated jig to bend the axle in. Seems like a lot of effort to go to for stance guys, though.

Isn't Vadim Kogay the gentleman racer from this infamous YouTube video?

I love it. My friend in high school had a '72 wood-deck stepside GMC, pumpkin orange, with a 4-speed manual on the floor. After graduation her plan was to build up an (at the time, just introduced) LS crate motor and shove it in.

Man, that's a good looking Elco. It's not like they can really make a bad looking one, though.

Oh yeah, absolutely. They'd have to make a new RWD platform; my point was just that they have just made some in the recent past.

The new Twingo and even their dorky electric penalty box, the Twizy, are RWD. I don't know if there's necessarily a place for them to do an RWD roadster/coupe but I'm sure all of the engineers over there would love to take a punt.

I mean Miata. Miata is coming!!!

I dunno, I've been watching a lot of Halt and Catch Fire and it seems like the state is stuck in the 80s. Even the cars seem to be from that era!

The rumour I've heard advanced is that the Mk I Golf was overwhelmingly based upon the (never released) Mk3 Trabant. One of the many documentaries on the Trabant ("A Car For A Dollar") had an interview with one of the Trabant engineers who reinforced that rumour. What a scamp!

I'm disappointed that the ugly-as-sin future-anger Captur is threatening my first Eurobeater love, the sweet-and-helpful Fiat Panda.

The more legitimate competition for my precious Subarus, the better. I feel like I'm hoping against hope that it have a manual transmission, though.

When I was shopping for WRXes, one supplier of an '02 WRX wagon offered to include his daughter's old car seat so I could have a bargaining chip to get out of speeding tickets with.

My neighbor puts the Club on his ancient Dodge van, because the door rust has just recently gotten bad enough you can actuate the latch rod through the holes.

I'm pretty sure my Subarus have rod knock even when they're turned off, so I think I'm good to go on this front.

This thing ruled and probably gave me bad ideas about the superiority of Macpherson strut suspension that continue to this very day.

He should come to northern Alberta and run the Chevettes On Ice series. It's not as fancy and luxurious as his precious Citations but I'm pretty sure the combination of short wheelbase RWD and $500 replacement cost will get him in the door anyway.