Also, you can buy a lot of Soviet hardware from Mortar Investments in the Czech Republic. Their website is fantastic and they arrange all of the legal paperwork as well as demilling as they sell anything from BMPs to BTRs and even the legendary T-34. Demilling for these vehicles simply renders the cannons unable to…

Sounds more like a BMW service advisor...

If I remember my MB history correctly, Jellinek was actually a close friend of Karl Benz and he took no issue naming the car line after his daughter. This was also well before the 1928 merger of Daimler and Benz.

Great piece! Trump probably wanted the livery change as it was designed by an immigrant...

There were fantastic trucks and I see nice examples up here in Alaska all the time. If a hard life in our climate up here doesn’t show how durable and well-built they were, then I don’t know what does.

Maybe they shouldn’t have killed Buell, cause then they’d still have a product the younger generations are attracted to...

I’ve read Issigonis’ biography and I'm pretty sure this is an urban legend. I'll have to look up in the part of the book about the genesis of the Mini, but I'm pretty sure he just wanted extra, usable storage in his little car... The man was a pragmatist, not a lush

My ‘69 Beetle I drove in college for 4 years was an auto stick... I usually describe it as a good idea gone horribly awry, just like its Porsche counterpart, the Sportomatic. It also didn’t get very good mileage for a Bug.. on the highway it could only manage about 28mpg whereas a normal manual Bug could hit close to…

IMO the Hyundai looks better in person. I went from a Merc GL450 to the Mazda. Took a few weeks to adapt to a little less space (the second row actually has more leg room than the big Merc), but it is a damn good suv, fantastic on snow and ice, and fun as hell to drive.

Exactly why I didn’t shop the Telluride when I got my CX-9 last year. The Lithia stealership here in Anchorage was marking them up by about $6K but for some weird reason, they weren’t marking up the Pallisade at their Hyundai sister store (both are Lithia)

And yet another old school Jalop writer leaves 😞 when will the carnage end?!?

So, this would be a valid comment if the 3 had the SkyActive-X which it doesn’t...Currently it has the SkyActive-G

I would posit that #15, the Mazda SkyActive-X is THE single most important internal combustion engine design development in over 50 years. It really is the Holy Grail of gasoline engine design and something manufacturers have been trying to achieve for decades. I can’t wait to test drive a Mazda with it

I’d say the CX-9 is very space efficient inside, from personal daily experience

So, you’re telling me I could have spent $2K less than my CX-9 GT to get barely more highway mpg (it scrapes 30 on the highway), drive slow and have less room?!?

We can only hope... Laguna is a super fun place you need to visit, even more fun to watch people take turn 4 way too fast and end up swinging their tail into the dirt and when inexperienced drivers hit 8 and 9 (the Corkscrew), it’s very entertaining 😁

Not just your opinion, I too saw the R10 take on the Corvette and others at Laguna in the late aughts and that thing was damn near silent as it whisked by at over 100mph, but the Vette could be heard clearly on the other side of the track... while tailing the Audi.

Doble shall rise again!!!

So was Sir Alec Issigonis, the ornery man who designed the original Mini. It was when working at Alvis they met and would go on to design the Mini’s amazing hydrolastic suspension

Finally buying an example from my favorite marque, my wife’s Volvo XC40 R-Design w/ Polestar tune and my Mazda CX-9 GT... zoom zoom