I despise those brake lights. Some euro cars will flash lights under heavy braking, sure, but to flash the light every time you tap the brake in stop-and-go traffic is crying wolf. Those dealers deserve a special place in hell.

An artful, literary take, and a fitting successor to Hamilton Nolan’s Lexus Review for Jalopnik in automotive reviews by people in Gizmodo Media that require a vehicle for a road trip and have found accommodation from the odd gentlemen at the other end of the office.

I eagerly await the next installment in the series.

While I see your point I feel the esteemed Jack Baruth has a worthwhile counterpoint:

Not vanity plates exactly, but I picked up a set of those black California “legacy” plates with a default plate number. My pre-order at first was meant for my Focus ST so I wouldn’t have a white plate in the middle of the front grille making it look like it had buck teeth, but they finally showed up in time to go on…

Nice.

Volvo may be bad at naming their engines but they’re great at acting as though 400+ horsepower in a compact SUV isn’t really a big deal. And that’s before Polestar gets involved.

It’s going to be tempting to drive over the curb out of the parking lot to the school driveway to beat traffic, but you’re going to destroy your catalytic converter in the process. Or at least that’s what your mechanic is going to tell you. Either way you’ll be out a grand.

It’s replacing the CC, so we’re talking more cut-price A5 Sportback than A7 here in terms of size, but on the MQB platform instead of the A4/A5's MLB.

Yeah, probably should’ve spent more than five seconds on that joke. Ah well, next time.

13/10 would take dog off road

I’ll see the Impreza and literally raise you a Crosstrek.

There are many reasons, chief among them being that it’s illegal in my state: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/pubs/hdbk/parking

That guy in the middle lane was coming up to a stopped car way too fast and the Sequoia had been signaling for a while. The white Accord driver was the original dick for trying to shut out the Sequoia.

I was willing to give the left exit thing some credit, but in watching this I realized I know exactly where this happened, and it’s just an entry point for the I-15 Express Lanes, which have plenty of opportunities to enter later. Also this is on a California freeway where the CHP has jurisdiction, and the CHP…

This is interesting to consider, and is going to pick up increasing attention with further vehicle electrification, since where the charge port door is located has a bit more impact when you’re leaving something plugged in for hours at a time instead of being confused pulling up to a pump for a five-minute refuel or…

Except when you account for the Bay Area’s cost of living, at which point it’s really not sustainable unless you try to commute in from Stockton or live in a one bedroom apartment in Gilroy with three other people.

Wait until the end of the model year and it’s not unheard of to get 15 percent off sticker on top of federal and state incentives.

If you have a driveway, go electric if you can. EVs work best in traffic, lease payments are very affordable (with depreciation you really don’t want to buy) and traffic becomes much more bearable with the instant torque and lack of overall NVH of an electric motor. The best ones are legitimately fun to drive when…

I’m a professional transportation planner and this is missing the biggest variable: Annual miles driven. Gas prices are back down, so it’s cheaper to drive your own car more, and when people drive more, they’ll increase their risk of being involved in a collision at any point over the year. I work for a transit…