I think the mouth needs to be open wider. FORD MUSTANG HUUUNGRY!

If you’re willing to go with something a little older and save a few dollars an Infiniti G35x or G37x might be worth a look too.

That Polo might be only slightly more underpowered than the first-gen Geo Metro in the US was, and it sounds like the mileage is pretty similar. I think that first Metro was a 3-cylinder engine with about 50hp, which only worked because they made the rest of the car so light that a couple baskets of wet laundry in the…

Replacing air filters does nothing for me, but mine have also all been a lot more work than that. One car where it was miserable to get to. A truck where the box had snaps but you had to take a clamp loose that you couldn’t properly see and it was all the way at the rear center of the engine. Now a reusable one…

Yeah, that’s pretty common. Maybe if enough of us start driving naked it will prompt a change in the law.

Better question: why should I have to put on any clothes at all just to drive? I just need darker tint on the windows.

Years ago I knew somebody who was an adult when Tucker was making cars, and who wasn’t associated with any auto business or really even all that interested in cars. His perspective from seeing the rise and fall of Tucker was that the cars were very innovative (even futuristic) for the time, and that the bigger car…

Shouldn’t this really say “some manufacturers have stopped charging extra for automatic transmissions in base models and pushed more consistency in the cheapest trim levels for cost optimization”?

I personally have not had it happen, but I have seen comments about men in the US being warned that they were putting diesel fuel in their Grand Cherokees. Americans still tend to think of diesel as large trucks or the old cars that you can smell from 20 feet away with big black soot stains on the back bumper above…

Several years ago I considered getting a Charger Daytona in lime green, telling people that I had decided to buy a very green car, and waiting for them to ask if I’d gotten a Prius.

I think the modern Michelin Man is still kind of creepy.

(I’ll skip over the question of whether or not this is in any way sensible.) Is the EU Z4 4-cylinder manual physically the same as the suggested 340i transmission? Different size/shape could make a swap a lot more complicated. There could be a significant engineering reason for BMW not to have a stick and clutch for…

Hot Wheels movie plot: The Hot Wheels are tired of the abuse they receive at human hands: constantly banged in to things, forced to run on stomach-turning tracks, jammed in to drooling brats’ mouths, and even the occasional firecracker. They start a guerrilla war against humans where they strategically position…

The stick-and-clutch electric car should also have a rumble seat and a buggy whip holder. And optional wicker seats.

Tacoma has a weird cult following that drives used prices through the roof in my area. A while back when I checked used prices on smaller trucks I saw Tacomas that were probably best suited as project trucks priced as high as Frontiers and Colorados that would need little/no work to be daily drivers.

I used to live in midwest farm country, and we all stopped. One cold, rainy night I picked up a guy walking from his stalled car, and it randomly happened to be somebody I knew. That was before most people had cell phones, but even today that area has very spotty coverage. Nobody was going to come by for hours. He…

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Picture looks like they did it wrong. Motorized door handles should be completely flush when they’re closed, not have that little gap at the bottom. That way people outside can’t grab them when you’re trying to drive away.

Aren’t nearly all limos in the US today “remanufactured” because of the low sales volume on such vehicles? Are there other options for the non-party limo audience, or will dignitaries and other VIPs switch to Escalades and Suburbans? (We’ll pretend that New York isn’t the kind of place to just give wealthy and…

In Toyota’s shoes I wouldn’t be making a big thing of Toyota programming/tuning with BMW parts. If you haven’t read anything else, that would conjure up an image of something with BMW maintenance and Camry fun.