I appreciate it! I’ve never sat in the 4C, but when reading that “it’s more comfortable than the Elise” my first thought was that it must be pretty damn comfortable. Then again, my dream is to commute to work in either a Caterham or a Morgan Three-wheeler.

Considering all those people who decide to send text messages, read the newspaper, do their makeup or even watch movies just because the road happens to be reasonably straight, I think it’s fair to assume that even more people will be focusing on these things with autopilot systems. I agree that semi-auto-pilots are…

The difference is that when something fails in an airliner, you typically have quite a large time span to make an emergency landing. When there is an emergency in a car (say, when an obstacle appears and the car needs to pull an evasive maneuver beyond the limits of what the autopilot is capable of), the driver will…

I... What?

Believe it or not, but there are some supercar customers who at the very least have some track experience (see the FXX program, for example). Not that there are plenty of them, but for an extremely limited production run, I think that it could be doable.

This gave me an idea. You know how Ferrari have models that are exclusively offered to selected customers? That’s a good idea for creating some artificial exclusivity, but imagine if a hypercar company produced a model which they only offered to drivers who had shown some provenance on track. Essentially “fine, you…

The question people should ask themselves is “if someone was looking to buy a car, would they specifically pay a significant amount of extra money just for this combination?” If that’s the case, then yes, the rarity matters.

They were sold together for 70% of their life spans, and the pictures I included are for comtemporary versions. But you could also compare it to the Golf Mk1, another car that was ahead of its time design-wise and turned out to be hugely influential.

Fair enough. I’m well aware that my position on the CX is not only subjective, but also probably not shared by most people here on Jalopnik. But whether or not it looks “modern” for its time seems like a less subjective matter than whether or not it looks good, and I really do think that it looks like it’s ten years…

They didn’t even look modern when they were new...

My cousin drives a 1989 Citroën BX and had to replace the camshaft recently. He happily told me that he must have been given a very good rebate from the dealer, since he only paid €600 for the part. My only response was to pull up the site where I order parts for my one year newer Miata, and show him a camshaft…

I know that many Americans on here will love this car based on it’s (regional) rarity, but as a European: This is one of the ugliest and worst-designed cars that we created in the last half of the 20th century. Let’s just kill it with fire and pretend that it never existed, you can have a bunch of Alfas in exchange.

I don’t think it’s entirely a matter of consumers accepting issues because it’s a young company, but rather a matter of Apple-like brand loyalty. When you sink enough money in a brand that tries to market itself as creating “innovative and high-quality products for consumers more intelligent than everyone else” (which…

I think that I missed one week on the Internet or something, and now I don’t know what’s going on. I’m sorry that it’s off-topic, but could anyone summarize it for me?

I’ll take this opportunity to link to Serwanski’s Nurburgring lap in a Miata. It’s worth a watch!

What? Dude! You need to announce these things in advance. I’ve been travelling from Sweden to Detroit for the world congress every year since I started working in the automotive industry. Every year it’s been mind-numbingly boring, and this is the first year that I gave it a pass.

From a car perspective (and to a lesser extent in general), Germany is probably the most American western/central-european country. They like their cars big and the roads straight, and they often don’t consider over-the-top things “trashy” (hello Mr. Hasselhof) in the same way as France, the UK or the Scandinavian…

You think that the NC look happy? Behold: An NA with the NC grille!

Yeah... The question was “what’s the best car photo you’ve ever seen”. This guy responds with three ok-but-mediocre photos that I presume he took himself?

Do you guys remember the Top Gear clip about Peugeot’s board meeting, when the decided to make shitty, boring and ugly cars driven exclusively by people who will drop dead in less than a year? Yeah, that sentence above is exactly that statement, but in marketing speak.