Mkay, tax policy discussions aside, Americans are terrible savers. Apparently something like half of American households can’t cover a $1,000 emergency. So when the tax system keeps, then distributes, a few thousand dollars out of paychecks each year, it’s a boon for people who otherwise couldn’t scrape together a…

Toyota: We need to make more exciting cars. Here, have the GT86.

When the CTS-V wagon was released some years back, it was widely reported that the number they needed to sell to break even on the development costs was 7. No idea whether that was accurate, but the development costs for the CLA are surely quite small, and nobody buys either of these cars because they make sense. So…

Yeah, no. Tell me, please, the salient distinction between the 3-series and the Lexus IS in terms of the driving experience. Other than the obvious, which is that you’ll know the first and last name of your BMW service advisor. Is it better balanced? Does it have more steering feel? Are the engines more responsive? Do…

How much of this has to do with a blend of nostalgia and reputation, and how much of it is the fact that there’s really no equivalent new car available (i.e., direct, mechanical, naturally-aspirated, high-revving, manual, etc.)?

Why do misanthropes always want to regulate other people out of existence? There’s a great big (mostly empty) middle to this country. Heck, there are lots of places out here in the flyover where you could bunker down, and, between an internet connection and Amazon, you’d never have to be inconvenienced by another…

I suppose the principal buyer of these things trends older, but for everyone else, seriously?! “I need a tall car, because reasons, but now I can’t lift my vintage hipster tube amplifier and artisan wheel of Asiago into my tall car, so my tall car must become short, by way of a complex system that will inevitably…

What electric car fanatics - and everyone else, for that matter - needs to realize is that if anyone tells you you’re helping the planet by purchasing a new car of any kind, they’re more interested in your money than they are in the planet.

What he’s saying is that as the plane accelerates, the jet engines push it forward through the surrounding air. If the treadmill is stationary, the plane will move forward off the treadmill. If the theoretical treadmill is infinitely long and moves at the same speed as the plane, the plane will still move forward and…

Well, yes. But it’s moving 500 people at 600 mph while it burns all that fuel. Do the math, and that comes to 100 MPG per person. In other words, everyone on the plane would have to carpool in sedans that get more than 25 MPG to burn less fuel, and it would take 10x as much time.

Do you guys hear yourselves? We can question the science of climate change or the writer’s understanding, presentation, or manipulation of the sources for this article, but facts are not the same as politics. They’re facts. Climate change is or is not factual. Whether you punch the little hole beside the R or the D…

Really? I think this was the most New York Times thing Jalopnik’s ever written. If this person, who 1) does not like cars, 2) does not like that they use gasoline, and 3) whose major positive impression from a week with a CTS-V is that the roof opened, can get a job writing automotive journalism, then either I will…

Actually, what I think this gentleman should do is go buy an old Jaguar with a V-12, because 1) it’ll cost approximately nothing (the last of them having been sold in this country in 1996, if I’m not mistaken), and 2) the ones that are still running have been maintained, and it’s really not all that expensive to keep…

Porsche has been fiddling with a 4-door 911 for decades. How the company that fielded this:

How come we can’t have V8/AWD like our northern neighbors? That’s the one I want...

I don’t personally think that Mercedes/Audi/whatever feel like a Mercedes/Audi/whatever anymore. Until you get to the S-Class level, they’re all pretty much just cars. And anyone who drives a $50,000 E or 5er back-to-back with a Genesis will probably be hard-pressed to identify any real qualitative or quantitative…