My Fiesta ST was built in Mexico as was my former Fiesta STS and they are both fine cars. The ST does have a German engine though and the SES a Brazilian one so they are not either 100% Mexican. I’m not saying I wouldn’t rather have had them built in the USA, just that quality can’t be your argument, it needs to be…

See my comment on quantum entanglement. In that technique you’d produce a copy but that copy would exist at the same exact quantum state as the original and the two would be linked together. You then destroy one and leave the other, which depending on which one you destroy “transports” the original from place to…

It may actually be possible to do this by using something called quantum entaglement to essentially create not only an exact copy but one with the same quantum state as the original and linked to it. Then you just break the link and destroy the original. But since the copy is a 100% copy right down to the atomic level…

You’ve obviously watched the movie The Prestige and it’s unique take on this.

Looks a lot better though I wonder if it’s time to loose the fake 300SL gills and go for a more classic 280SL Pagoda sort of look. It’s also a shame that the passenger impact regulations means the nose has to be so high. Perhaps they could take a page from the new Miata and go for an airbag instead?

It’s hard to beat our tow vehicle crash on the way to our first Lemons race on Christmas Day 2008. Totalled the truck, totalled the trailor, drove our Lemons Peugeot home. Not only did it get us the Jalopnik article below it also landed us in the Car and Driver’s 10 Best Car Crashes I Walked Away From. It was exciting…

Paris is one of the foreign cities I have spent the most time in via two three-month work trips nearby and two vacations there in the last 4 years. There is something instantly calming and familiar about it each time I go so this hits home as much as if it had happened in my home town. It is my dream to someday retire…

How about “Never Lift, Never Surrender”? A good reference to the “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” term so often used to disparage things that are French and which just happened to be the name of our Peugeot race team.

I can’t think of anything that embodies the Jalopnik spirit more than a Peugeot 505 race car...

Before I had the Mirage I had a ‘79 Colt RS with the regular 85 hp 1.6 and the twin-stick. Loved that transmission!

I think you hit it, introducing the new Subaru Scenic Overlook. For the guy looking to drive to the edge of nature but no farther...

I have to agree 100% with your opinion on Skyfall, I felt exactly the way you did on first viewing. It wasn’t A View to a Kill bad but there were a lot of “huh?” moments in it. I have to admit that I enjoyed it more on the second viewing once I knew that the story wasn’t much and could just sit back and enjoy the ride…

A female friend of mine had one of these back in the day. Once she called me depressed because her car was “falling apart” because the car had lost not only the just of 5th gear but also the speedo cable was broken. When I told her that a) both these items were related and b) the fix would be cheap she would not…

Only the pilot has been posted so far (free no Prime needed). The rest of series 1 drops later in November, I expect there will be a lot of advertising then.

For several years now in the SCCA’s SportsCar magazine ther has been an occasional Ghost Tracks section. Of the tracks they have highlighted there was one that they called a ghost track that never completely died, Pacific Raceways in Kent, WA. My father was involved in the creation of the track in the early 1960s but…

Prime has the new Paul Newman Winning documentary plus the new The Man in the High Castle series and next year the new Galaxy Quest series. So there are some other things worth watching IMHO.

I’ve own or have owned #10, #8 and #7 and I have designs on somehow purchasing #3 as really it’s the other three combined, isn’t it?

I’m sure that this is a very personal question for most people but for my the NA Miata is as close to perfect as a car can get. That's mine pictured and after 26 years and 302,000 miles I'm still as happy with it as the day I drove it off the showroom floor (yes the photo is recent).

I bought one of those new in that color but with the turbo engine and the TRX wheels and suspension. The car itself was ok but the turbo engine was terrible, so much so that it traded it for a Dodge Colt RS around a year later. The Colt thankfully was a fantastic car...

Why pay $7250 for a Monarch with 64,000 miles when you can buy a Granada with 45,000 miles for just $3200? Sure it has an automatic and a less cool paint color but for $4000 I think that would be easy to take care of.