the spiritual successor to the OG Rabbit/Golf cabriolet.

small, relatively cheap, top down.

the 2.2 in the dodge neon. nearly 100% warped or cracked the cylinder head in less than 80k miles, chrysler said fuck off to a recall causing 10s of thousands of people to eat the cost of a new head or junk the car.

sorry, as much as I love OG Rangers (I owned a ‘94 xlt supercab 4.0 4x4 5sp with the off road perf package) this is a total crack pipe.

sure low mileage, but: 2wd, single cab means you can not recline your seat hardly at all, and if you are tall it is unbearable, slushbox, pinto 4, stepside...

also, no mention of the…

“Our engineers are reaching a practical limit of what we can squeeze from internal combustion innovation,”

You can tell it is a Dodge, because even the one used in the Ad comes from the factory with rust and fucked up paint:

I was up at the Laconia demo rides a few weeks back and Harley didn’t even bring the LiveWire. they had a lot of the new ADV bike (and it was good, other than some awkwardness with the kickstand and the adjustable height suspension) but no livewires.

while I generally agree with your sentiment, the reason dealers came to be in the first place is the car manufacturers wanted nothing to do with actually dealing with individual customers, and so franchised out the sales and service.

once they did that, the dealers did what businesses do in a “free” country and bought…

I do not understand the fascination with these really, really bad wagoneers.

they were overpriced shit when new and now are just old and shitty. they are not even cool old, just shitty old.

they are not good to drive, they are not reliable, they are ugly, they get terrible mileage, they aren’t even good at what they are…

I would think a Dodge Magnum would make a cleaner starting point for this.

you’ve already got the tail lights, right kind of bumper etc, converting the existing tailgate for opening the other way would be doable..

would largely be a matter of stripping the interior, reinforcing the structure, welding and filling the…

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Pretty sure that’s a Lambo, Dude
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testosterone poisoning.

Darwin wins again.

I have a hard time understanding how Nikola was allowed to trademark their name since it is such a transparent attempt to profit off the name recognition of Tesla.

also - eat the rich.

while this stunt was great marketing for Renault (emphasizing FWD at a time when not a lot of cars in america were FWD) the problem is gasoline.

the tank went with the back half of the car, yet he keeps driving for miles.  the car might get a couple hundred yards before the high pressure pump starts sucking air and…

the Buick motor is essentially the same motor as that used to make the TR-7 into the TR-8. Rover bought rights to the Buick motor and Triumph used the Rover version in the TR-8.

EDIT: misread the article.  Rover bought the rights to the small aluminum Buick V8 215 ( source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_V8_engine#…

I’m glad they were somewhat able to avoid the Xzibit “I heard you like fake vents, so I put fake vents in your fake vents” look.

but no manual == no buy.

what ever happened to “the ultimate driving machine”?

give me a 2002 or 1st or 2nd gen 2 door 320i/323i with a stick please.

I would prefer if it came with features from the A-10 Warthog, specifically twin turbines, an armored cockpit, a 21 foot long 30mm gatling gun and lots of smart bombs.

how much does it weigh.  is it actually new, or just a new body on the elise chassis like the evora and exige were?

would Colin be happy?

on most LMP1 cars, at LeMans/in low drag configuration the rear wing was largely a trim tab to ensure front/rear balance and didn’t contribute a lot to overall downforce.

if the rules make big ass diffusors legal (and even better ground effects tunnels) and you are allowed a trimmable member, then a rear wing is just…

can’t even be bothered to doublecheck the headline text before going live?

shits given regarding Bugatti == 0
no fucks to give either.

their cars are not innovative. they are not pretty. they are not useful. they are just all the bad things about pure excess.

they make ugly ass cars for people who value being wealthy more than they value human life and want to tell the world about it.