I don’t know what magical socioeconomic remedy is improving the lives of poor people in gentrified neighborhoods. A very small minority of the original residents in areas affected by gentrification own their homes and can profit from an increase in property value. I don’t think there’s a single example of a city where…

In this thread, people leap to the defense of gentrification.

Since the M3 is getting more like a techno-rocket ala GT-R than any semblence of a mechanical sports car or GT, this makes fine sense and leaves plenty of room underneath for an M2 or whatever.

Why do we need a military that’s prepared to invade and dismantle any country around the world at a moment’s notice? What interest does that possibly serve? It’s still called a defense budget, y’know. I get the whole first strike, best defense is a good offense thing, but I don’t really know if the cost warrants it…

I think the big problem is performance creep. Performance cars are just much less compromised now than any point in history due to the sheer advance of automotive technology. Virtually any sports sedan of past decades is trumped in outright performance by a new V6 Camry, a car whose greatest asset happens to be its…

I’m moving CA -> MN and driving up my very clean, very well equipped 9-5. I can think of few other cars I would do this with due to the combination of excellent winter performance, relative rarity, highway comfort, reliability, etc... Including most other 9-5s

Except that SAAB’s automobile arm actually changed their name to Saab AB to reflect SAAB being used simply as a trade name and not an acronym, considering the lack of aerospace activities. Were it to have been SAAB AB that would have been a complete redundancy.

Reading this comment is like remembering that some Jalopnik commenters are total assholes.

Sonnets were used for ice racing in Sweden.

poor doug

There are a bunch of damn Raptors in Mill Valley now, and at least one H1 I think.

Every day driving in the SF Bay I see dozens of motorists driving cars. One day I was driving to the North Bay from San Francisco on the Golden Gate and traffic was terrible on the freeway just a little north of the bridge. I came across the cause of the slowdown, which turned out to be a burned-out hulk of a car in…

The Tundra is an unequivocally bigger truck. It looks and feels huge in comparison to the Taco. Plus the fuel efficiency is a huge detriment. If you look at the bottom of the rung F150 vs late in life Rangers you start to see where it was a little easier to justify the jump in size because at that point, the F150…

You’ll experience worse anywhere with mountains on the west coast of the US...

I mean, in theory, but living here you wouldn’t know it. It’s either extremely limited, borderline invisible, or both.

V10 TDI. The other part (Touareg) is a little less relevant, important part pictured. 550 lb ft.
Yeah, it has leather and wood and I’m going to say it’s a “luxury SUV” because an SUV that isn’t luxury doesn’t have those things.
And yeah, I know it’s a crossover. Does that engine look like it cares?
Should have enough…

What sort of engineer writes out “engineer”???

I was actually completely wrong! The 9-5 does not use the Trionic ECU system. Technically, the 9-4x and SRX use a different generation of the 2.8 than the 9-5 or the 9-3, however, while the 9-5, 9-4x and SRX all use GM engine management, the 9-3 uses a proprietary evolution of Saab’s Trionic that dates back to the…

Cool fact about the Aero is it uses the same 2.8t turbo that popped up in a lot of mid-tier GM performance of the day. The interesting thing though is it was an Australian “High Feature” engine tossed over to Saab for turbo-power reworking and the job they did was ridiculously thorough. And remember that Cadillac SRX…

The best part is, they’re not! Go wild! Party like it’s Trollhattan, 2009.