For the longest time, I thought I had something wrong with my MKVI Sportwagen. Occasionally, when turning the vehicle off, I’d hear a thump or a whomp coming from in front of me. I couldn’t tell if it was from the engine or the HVAC system, but it was disconcerting. Several weeks in, I noticed the sound was coming…

It’s nice to be reminded of the time when Lamborghinis didn’t look like the Mathmagician went on a Geometry bender and threw up all over a draft page.

I guess now we know what the definition of “fuck you money” really is.

Seriously? Give me a brake.

Every car has one foot in the grave and the other inching toward catastrophic failure. You’re not hearing an exhaust note from the tail pipe. You’re listening to the car sighing as it decides to continue living long enough to see the next revolution of the crankshaft.

Great article, a lot of fun to read, Tyler. I look forward to more of the same. I think all of us enjoy being scared a little bit by the little idiosyncratic failures baked into vehicle engineering.

That said, mind if I ask your opinion on first generation Toyota Siennas? I’m pretty well-versed on the usual stuff like…

Ford. Quality is job 1.

Exactly. Frankly, I think it looks good in “parts runner basic.” I’d option one out like that, but not necessarily white if the fleet manager will let me get away with it. ;)

Yellow? Check. Manual? Check. Convertible? Check. Saab? Check-check-freaking-checkity-check.

NP, no brainer, jumped to the poll. End of SAAB story.

That looks really nice. I have this weird hang up with useful bed space and rugged wheels, though.

I suppose it’s pretty smart to bank some credibility with good, normal, semi-even-handed articles and then occasionally burn some of it up to get some mid-week click-throughs. Can’t really fault you, though. You suckered me in but, ultimately, my hopes of reading something of substance were utterly dashed.

In the process of righting their karmic wrongs for unleashing the Mustang upon the innocent public, Ford will singlehandedly send a historic nameplate to the glue factory.

These guys > Chilton

Trick question. You should almost always choose the autonomous vehicle to avoid a collision with pedestrians. Whether it should collide with another vehicle or simply head straight for an object to cease its trajectory is another question altogether. It’d be pretty impressive if the autonomous vehicle could interpret…

This is a lot less efficient than lighting a pile of 160 Benjamins on fire and only marginally cooler.

Jason, I think your headline is misleading. What about when Volkswagen deceives the public regarding emissions from coalplants that produce the electricity for their vehicles? When Volkswagen lies, we die.

Cons:

After buying and selling 34 cars, give or take, I could easily cram an article full of 1,000 words of bad automotive decisions. Everything from C900 ‘verts with swimming pools, Volvos that were trailered without inspection, a D150 trailered to me sight-unseen, a FJ60 driven home across state in a blizzard with a dead…

This just shows who really owns the car at any point before or after the sale. All this proprietary rootkit coupled with automotive technology proves the product always belongs to the manufacturer. Nonsense.

Your question goes hand in hand with WTF levels of power-to-weight ratios. Consider that Deuce.5 Jackie Channed.