I paid $4,000 for mine, and people act like I’m some sort of big shot because I drive a Jag.  It’s like, “No, it’s just a fun car to drive.” 

Wow, I never knew that the X-Type shared a platform with the 2nd-gen Mondeo (itself a mildly-reworked 1st-gen, the 1st-gen being the basis for the Contour/Mystique)! Gee whiz, Mister, you sure taught me something new today!

Sorry to hear.  Back in September, I actually took mine down the Tail of the Dragon in Tennessee and flogged the everloving fuck out of it.  The car did better than I did (I was really really hungover) and was ready for more.  

Lol, 2000s Jag quirkiness strikes again!  Meanwhile, my 2003 X-Type just keeps going and going and going. Full-Time AWD, 5-speed manual, that legendary Jag handling, and an old school Jag interior festooned with wood and leather and the sport seats.

Aside from composite headlights and some tweakery, it’s basically the same van that debuted in 1986.  

Hell yeah! This is incredibly clean, both inside and out. The guts will run a long time. Ford was good at family-hauler chairs in that era, and it has a proper column shift besides. AWD makes it an attractive proposition for all sorts of driving. And, it’s now old enough to get the retro cool cred an ‘80s van can…

Federal oversight won’t fix any corruption, but it will spell the end of the UAW as any sort of effective organization for workers’ rights and protections. And that’s the whole point of all this corruption investigation: To break the union. Corruption’s everywhere, and it’s pretty easy to take something relatively…

Congrats on the COTD!

Agreed. The puddle’s a cover for flagrant and meat-headed abuse that ended badly. 

I love the notion of the Neon SRT-4. The Neon was great at being what it was-cheap and cheerful, and surprisingly fun to drive. My husband had a 2005 SXT when I met him, and that car even with an automatic was easy to fling around.

Yep. They’re adding a HOV (high occupancy vehicles) lane.  Not sure how that’ll work-if it’ll be just an HOV lane or if it’ll be electronically controlled or what the deal is.  They’re pretty light on details on the modernize75 website.  

To be fair though, it mostly just burns my ass we “can’t afford” transit in this region and the rest of our roads are falling to ruin too, but somehow they found all that money for that one road.  It’s an important road, yeah, but not $570 million important IMO.  

I work in Troy, live in Detroit, and frequent Great Lakes Crossing.  I’m up and down that strip of road every day.  It did not need widening.  It needed a repaving, which should have taken a year instead of the five they’re saying “Modernize I-75" is going to take.  

We’ll eventually approach the McLaren situation, where there’s like one old laptop still functional that has the one bespoke card that can interface with the car.  That or it gets junked.  

This is a rock-solid post, with which I agree. The Trump rollback is by no means assured, and it’ll make for some wealthy lawyers by the time it’s been through the courts. I am convinced (as the Clean Air Act itself sets up) that the feds absolutely have the power to regulate. They set up the law in such a way that…

Humanity’s propensity to spread further afield is directly related to the cost of transportation. Rome expanded because of their tremendous road network. Early American settlers expanded into the Midwest following the completion of the Erie Canal and into the West after the coming of the railroads.

Doctrine of preemption.  The Clean Air Act makes it plain CA is being granted an exemption, under certain conditions, and that no other state shall be granted exemptions.  That pretty clearly means the feds intended for a uniform standard.  

Feds absolutely have the power to dictate one standard, as the manufacture and sale of automobiles necessarily crosses state lines and thus becomes a prime example of Interstate Commerce (of which the power to regulate at the federal level is granted in Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution).

1st: There’s actually a very cogent argument to be made in favor of one unified standard, and I’m glad that GM, Toyota, et al are making it. Realistically, increased economy standards without corresponding gas tax increases are subsidizing people to live further afield. That drives massive suburban sprawl, egregious…

Neutral:  It would take Mitsu making something that didn’t advertise to the world that I had little money and terrible credit.  It would also be nice if their cars were aspirational in a “I’d love to own this” instead of a “I’d love to slice my wrists open and end it all” sort of way.