As much as I love 4-door wagons, I also love me some 2-door wagons. Even the unloved 412.

I concur. [jalopnik.com]

Ah, but look again—the Fox wagon actually satisfies your "3 windows per side" rule! And though the rear glass slopes, it is no more than a W124 wagon and certainly less than the Audi 5000/100/200 Avant pictured here.

"poppas fucks"?

I know 1990 was the last year VW imported that body style to the U.S., though I'm not sure when/if they stopped building a 2-door wagon for other markets. But yeah, I'll agree that there hasn't really been anything like it here in the States since then.

Yep. If we were going to make "wagon rules" instead of just accepting that we know wagons when we see them, then we'd have to add a rule about cargo capacity—either in absolute numbers, or as a ratio compared to passenger area volume. There'd still be anomalous results, but it would eliminate all of the Minis, Civic…

Generally, I would agree. But there's this, which I guess you could call a shooting break/brake, but I owned one and I would still would call it a wagon.

One thing to keep in mind, and I say this because I know it troubled my parents when I was a kid in the malaise era: lap-only belts. I remember at some point during my childhood, there were reports that wearing a lap-only belt was more dangerous in some types of crashes than no belt at all. I seem to recall that…

Sorry, man, but any bright-line rule like this is going to lead to absurd results. There is a reason that a two-door VW Fox wagon is, in fact, a wagon and a two-door Civic hatch (3rd, 4th, or 5th-gen) is not.

Yeah, I feel bad that the auto writer was killed, but it's not doing anybody any favors by soft-pedaling what actually happened.

If only.

It was in Jalopnik's copy (now corrected), which makes it a little more puzzling because yesterday's Jalopnik article identified the car as a "mid-90s Lexus ES300," meaning that they had it right and then inexplicably made it wrong. Of course, today's article links to an article on TMZ, which could explain a lot...

I know, I know—I'm being pedantic. But this *is* a automotive-enthusiast website, and even if the ES300 is not the stuff of most enthusiasts' dreams, a website about cars should always get the facts about the cars right.

I'm just wondering how the police attempted to track down someone driving a "mid-90s Lexus ES350," considering that such a car does not exist.

And another one.

The lack of any identifiable standard signalling a "hit" is just one side of the coin—that gives the cops the PC to search just about as intrusively as they like based on a "sign" only the handler can see (and crucially, will not disclose to others). I have seen this happen repeatedly during traffic stops, where the…

Nah, when it comes to fiery death, Chevy "runs deep"—at least as far back as the Vega and Corvair!

First, the union workers at Orion Assembly took a hefty pay cut to keep the plant from being closed.

The article says affected vehicles may be missing an inner or outer pad. Assuming a typical single-piston sliding caliper, a missing inner pad is really bad news. Assuming that the piston survives being pressed against the rotor repeatedly, the heat transfer directly into the piston, seal, and brake fluid (without…

What would happen to you if you got a DUI is irrelevant—when a person's job is to uphold and carry out the laws, that person is held to a higher standard.