I’d much rather have a 45,000 mile Granada for half the price.

My father was a United Airlines DC-6 pilot back in the day and my mother was a stewardess which of course is how they met. My first flight sometime just before I was 2 was on a DC-6 but I don’t really remember it. I do remember flying an Olympic Airlines DC-6 from Amsterdam to Athens back in 1969. I distictly remember…

So not true, the 850 Spider is a fine handling car, at least at any speed it’s 52 hp engine can get it up to. I’ve also never seen one on tires that skinny, my ’68 had 155s which worked just fien when you only have 1450 lbs to worry about. Now if you want to fault the Fiat for relability go ahead (I replaced mine with…

The local Chevrolet dealership in my city, Jet Chevrolet, used to have one of it’s Czech stablemates parked next to I-5 as an advertisement. They sold it to a museum back in 2007 but most people around here remember it well.

#7 sounds really good until you realize that the guy doesn’t know his car at all. It’s impossible to be locked out of a FiST if you have the key fob in your hand. You just pop open the cover on the fob and inside is an old-fashion key. You put the key in the door lock, turn it and like magic the door opens! And guess…

From the time I was 12 until about 8 years ago I always had a motorcycle. There was just something relaxing and freeing about riding along a twisty backroad. But as more and more people started driving while talking on a cell phone it became obvious that people were playing less and less attention to where they were…

So we’ve gone from 13 ft Cri-Cri to the 11 ft Baby Bird without mentioning the 12 ft BD5J? Did someone at Jalopnik forget about the famous hanger scene in Octopussy or what?

Just don’t let Richard Dean Anderson behind the wheel. At the ’87 Olympus World Championship Rally he managed to roll over the pace car on stage 2 and it wasn’t the only racing-related crash the guy had. Maybe MacGyver is invincible but Richard Dean Anderson not so much...

I remember seeing one on display in the window of the Champs-Élysées Mercedes showroom back in ’89 or ’90 when I was working in France. I never got to see it drive anywhere though I did attend the ’89 LeMans race so I got to see penty of (Sauber) Mercedes going fast!

I find it funny that it took this long for Honda to rediscover the CT-70. Back in the ‘70s in my small town it seemed like everyone had one growing up from my buddies down the street to hot cheerleader I had a crush on. The CT-70 was my first bike too and we used to ride them in the fields or the logging roads and…

I wouldn’t call it a horror story but let’s say Driver’s Ed back in the old days wasn’t quite so safety-concious as it is now. Back in the ‘70s my school had three Fords including the LTD that my group of three and our Driver’s Ed teacher (the other two groups got other teachers at the school but I was stuck with the…

I suspect that like a lot of tech companies Google subsidizes employee meals quite a bit so it might not be that hard to eat at the office for a reasonable amount. The only thing I don’t understand is why he bothers with a truck. A sleeping bag and a conference room would work just as well...

This isn’t putting the 9-3 back into production really, NEVS is just selling the IP and tooling for the BLS to Turkey to raise money in an attempt to get the 9-3 line running again or if not that at least to get some cash out of their lousy investment.

The school in question does rent cars but they are mostly Kia Souls for some reason and they are covered in huge school logos so this is likely a customer car. My wife used them for lessons and her drivers test and they seem like a good school.

How difficult can it be to replace a clutch? Heck here in Seattle all you need to do is drop your car off at the local Delorean dealer (yes, there are still Dekorean dealers around). They can even fix the instrument binnicle with NOS parts if you're so inclined.

No mention of solar sail racing like in Arthur C Clarke’s Sunjammer aka The Wind From the Sun? The Planetary Society has already developed and deployed a cubesat solar sail ship, how long will it be before manned ones are a real possibility?

Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle did manage to totally destroy Bellingham, Washington lauching one of these things to combat in invading Fithp aliens in Footfall however.

The Falcon 9 Heavy will have 27 engines on it’s first stage but in three sets of 9. Thankfully advances in computers and materials technology means it’s far more likely to work the first time than the N1.

I’m not so sure. Even if they are able to sell their 2016 models at some point after updates have been made their EPA mileage numbers are apt to be significantly lower. It might be more profitable to just write-off the cars they have produced for the USA or re-route them to another market where they might still be…

I think his pint is that even diesels that meet emission standards are bad for the environment in the real world. Many of those Pariesian diesels are not VWs but the pollution is still bad. American cities of similar size don't have these issues.