About 10 years ago or so I had a chance to buy a near-new Mazda RX-8. I didn’t do it. Even though I probably would have pushed it into a river over the warranty claims, I still kind of wish I had gone for it. They’re cool cars and they don’t get enough love.

These types of stories are hands down the best part of jalopnik! Keep on you two!

Officer: “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

It’s supposed to have LIDAR or similar sensors which detect obstacles in front of it - whether or not they’re illuminated. Part of the point of these autonomous vehicles is that they’re supposed to have better ways to detect potential problems than a human driver, and this shows that wasn’t the case.

Perhaps correcting someone’s pronunciation makes me a dingleberry, but I reserve all rights to tell someone they sound like an idiot.

VW is pronounced “Fau Vey” :)

Technically Folksvagen.

Show me one of these pictures, please? And keep in mind, we’re not talking about the location of reverse here. You may want to look at that picture again.

I am only slightly annoyed that you would turn to someone else for hot dog related advice before me.

For what it’s worth, I don’t think charcuterie is a time to be adventurous. Costs of meats and cheeses have gone through the roof during our 15+ year culinary renaissance. I’d recommend hitting the demo days at…

“ The police department’s preliminary investigation indicates the car made no attempt to brake.”

The point here isn’t “a human driver might have killed the pedestrian, too.”

Or an Audi inline 5.

As someone who has owned two FB RX7's, this is the greatest thing I’ve seen on YouTube in a very, very long time.

Second only to Hoppe’s 9 solvent.

When I had my old Beezer you had to “tickle” (prime) the carbs before kick starting. You did this by depressing a small button thing on the side of the carb (shiny silver in the image below) until a little trickle of gas overflowed. That trickle got on my gloves, and since I stored my gloves in my helmet there was…

If you WANT upgraded helmets get the Snell level tested helmet, well worth the bones. Anything that makes helmets even MORE expensive is going to increase the number of folks who won’t wear ANY helmet at all. We bikers are 17, yes SEVENTEEN times more likely to die than cagers (those in vehicles). We ARE the crush…