The new Ducktales is perfection and you can easily find out who you should not be friends with if they skip the intro while watching.

Donald was a main character in the Barks and Rosa Scrooge tales that so much of the series is based on. His presence and personality is truer to the source material than the 90's series. If anything, he should speak more, but the comics didn’t come with a speech impediment.

This is exactly the sort of bullshit I come to Jalopnik for to escape from reality.

I wonder if it all kinda balances out though? I think older used cars in Europe tend to be a lot cheaper because the strict inspection requirements mean your used car is always a lot closer to being suddenly worthless than it would be in the US where you can basically drive any old crapcan on the road.

I’d like to see… Read more

As a poor college teenager and the college student in western NY, I obviously dreaded the yearly trip to get my safety inspection sticker. Then I moved to southeast Michigan. Read more

Young person here. Already hate the existence of just about everything, and have nothing to look forward to except student debt until the day I die. Could never afford to do this (in terms of both time and money) or have kids (not that I want them). Read more

Maybe they could fit the Soviet Shitbox INTO the van and ship them together!

The US needs weird old Soviet shitboxes far more desperately than we do K-car based diesel sadness.

If you decide you want to bring it back stateside, I did not ship a vehicle over when I came to Italy, so I do still have a free vehicle shipment if needed. It’s old enough to ship unmodified, and It will definitely pass the inspections on base (I just so happen to do those). It would have to wait until I leave in… Read more

I feel like someone like Netflix or Amazon Prime needs to follow you with a film crew and make a series of documentary series’ about your many wonderfully terrible ideas. Call it “Reckless Wrenching with David Tracy”.

Im an overly paranoid type. They pay me to be. But maybe consider removing that bit from the piece. He exercised his discretion and noted, privately, that he won’t investigate further. But if an annoying neighbor sees the article, they may follow up and claim that the city knew, or ought to have known, that you may… Read more

Agreed.

The writing on the windshield said 2000 5 speed 4x4. Looked stock, but it’s not there anymore. Read more

“I may not be able to tell if the car is operable from Public property.“
This is a good public servant doing his duty and not being an ass.

Damn, I was wayyy off.

Damn that’s cold.

I think when you tell people you were an engineer for a major American auto company, people assume you must be old because they haven’t done any engineering since the early 70's! Hey-o!

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Buy another?

Good luck David, Should of held out for the all wheel drive version of that van :)

Yeah, but I also feel like Alex is an important character for Bobbie’s character development. You can’t just get rid of him.  Their relationship and their shared Martian heritage do a lot to open her character up emotionally in the later books.