I mean, once concept car won't bring a whole budget customization craze back. That's very clear. The question we should ask ourselves is, maybe it should?

He seems pretty boss. Also, you should have him do an AMA type thing on Jalopnik. I want to ask him if he'd consider doing a FB, an RX-3 or a TR-3. The TR-3 especially. Put a nice N/A four in it, an IRS and disks on all four corners and it would sing me to my financial ruin.

Add 5.9 inches to the wheelbase, and you get the Panamera Turbo S Executive, which offers even more comfort at the rear. It has thermal and noise-insulated windows, an interior lighting package and large center console at the rear just in case 4.7 inches of extra space in the footwell wouldn't provide enough premium…

Pocket square, not a cravat.

All hail the dollar bill. We will never doubt it's power to make our lives better, purer and higher. All hail profit.

Cappuccino is a perfect name far a small sports car: it's a small (if you ignore Starbucks, which I do my best to) drink that packs a punch. Makes sense to me.

I used to search around for cheap breakfast places in Vancouver, where I used to live. Cheapest was a place way east on Hastings called Jane's. Four dollars for (real) eggs, bacon, toast, hash browns and as much coffee as you can drink, (even if you sometimes had to get it yourself). It was a bitch to get to when I…

I was hitchhiking to a town four hours away and jumped into some cheap shitbox – could of been a Sunfire – that was packed with four people, me being the fifth. As soon as we got up to speed everyone pulled beer bottles out from where they had been hiding them, driver included, and continued down the highway at…

Australia as well I've noticed. It just feels weird.

Japan has one of the oldest populations in the western world. And a lot of their elderly people are dying in car accidents. That means that the advent of autonomous cars might be a good thing for them.

Why make a new V6 when you can make a new I6 and have a more traditional engine for the skyline and a smoother one for the rest of your cars. In my dreams this is happening.

Reminded me of Borge's On Exactitude in Science.

In some cases, the deployment was caused by spiders — their webs can create a blockage in a drainage tube coming from the air conditioning condenser, which causes water to drip into the airbag control module resulting in a short circuit. Long story short is spiders = an airbag exploding in your face.

"Marchionne does things well at Chrysler and badly at Fiat," Volkswagen AG Chairman Ferdinand Piech told Bloomberg News during an event in Vienna this month. Based on its current performance, Fiat "isn't capable of surviving" on its own, said the executive, who has publicly sparred with Marchionne and has expressed…

In my mind you're missing a built, N/A 13B wailing away at 10,000 rpm in a light convertible, blowing fire out its tailpipes on run off. It's the stuff of my dreams and there is little that I want more. Would it be expensive? Yes. Would it be unreliable? Probably not the most reliable motor, high strung as it would be…

Right, but that's compared to the iron four banger in it, not a rotary. I believe a rotary is a bit lighter than an LSx and it's way more compact. What I'm saying is that a rotary will improve dynamics, whereas an LSx just won't make it worse. The rotary should put weight lower and further back, while being no heavier…

LSx people always bang on about how compact it is and that it keeps weight down low because it has a single cam down low. They also always talk about how light it is and how it should be thrown in everything, but you have to admit it's a damn sight bigger than a rotary and will drastically change the weight…

And, let's face it, as sleek and handsome as this car is, it is most assuredly a monster. After AMG gets their labcoat-sleeved hands on it, the SLS GT Black Edition is a 4100 lb, 622 HP beast that can go from looking lovely parked to a mile-a-minute blur in 3.5 seconds. It's low and wide, and the hood appears to be…

And the owners of the 'House of the Rising Sun' are, who knows, it's a folk song, and that's my point. No one owns a word because they come into existence by being adopted by everybody, along with its meaning. Cherokee refers, initially and overall, to the Cherokee people. Jeep wanted to use the name to associate…

I'm no Jeep purist, but I call bullshit on Jeep 'owning' the name. You call a vehicle something, it enters common parlance and takes on meaning. You can't just unilaterally change the meaning and keep the word because they 'own' it. Jeep owns Cherokee like Bob Dylan owns 'House of the Rising Sun' – he didn't write…