Rented a Peugeot 308 on a trip to Germany this winter. Nice car, perfectly competent and pleasant. Very nice diesel engine (for those of us who like that sort of thing - that part was definitely competitive with, say, a TDI or Opel’s small diesels). The manual was OK (a bit vague), the clutch pedal squeaked (brand new…

Gas stations in cold climates switch the fuel blend without saying anything. When it’s colder out they can sell blends that are more volatile and cheaper to produce. In the summer time winter blend fuel evaporates too quickly, putting raw hydrocarbons in the air (smog).

This is a good piece but why the hell was this shared to Jalopnik?

Jalopnik is car stuff. This is not. Please don’t turn all of Kinja into one big stupid blended soup of political stuff. If I wanted that I’d go to reddit.

Who says we have to accept that?

Found the Mopar guy. And don’t put words in my mouth, I didn’t say I don’t like Plymouths.

It’s good to see this tech trickling down from cars like the Focus to more affordable cars like this Mclaren.

“However, asking $1.3M for Plymouth anything that isn’t an address in Massachusetts”

Here you go:

Anything to spout political bullshit, eh buddy?

When forcing a political view into a conversation that clearly has no political agenda, please do a better job writing material. Otherwise, keep the rhetoric on Gawk. They accept even the worst “like type view” propaganda. So, even your comments will make it as an article.

I was going to say that CVLIT would be a terrible badge because people would rip the “V” off, but then again, no one is going to vandalize a Ferrari.

I referred to a couple guys as “hipsters” the other day and boy did they get upset. Apparently the politically correct term is “conjoined twins”.

I think this image I found on the World Wide Web may support your point. And when I say the World Wide Web, I actually mean this, very Website about cars. Which is on the Internet.

Counterpoint: Newsweek did the investigation, so should therefore get the credit and the page views. Would you have found the Newsweek article had you not been directed there by this article? Would you have complained if this article was just the Newsweek article reprinted verbatim, with asides from the author…

“You should read Jalopnik, it’s good and insightful.”

Correct. The Z06 uses a much smaller supercharger. David Hamburger told me that the 2.9L unit they are using is bespoke and designed by them. The 800HP figure has a lot of overhead left untapped :)

Fond memories of one flight, I want to say UA Singapore-Narita but could’ve been something else, where two Mainland Chinese guys — and this was about a decade ago, before there were Mainland Chinese people in great numbers on all international flights — decided that they’d be sitting on the armrests. As everyone is…

I have a bunch, but the worst ones are TL;DR. A funny one I recall: