The junkyards in Phoenix usually have an informal bouncer on hand for just such occasions. It is usually a 300lb dude with more tats than teeth who is happy to help lift a transmission onto a cart or crack a few skulls when necessary.

Nevermind the car, where can I get a pair of those natty pirate pants?

Maybe this is a bit pollyanna but why wouldn’t we sink a huge percentage of our defense budget into missile defense? I mean it already kinda sorta works some of the time so why not perfect it? Build it and make it open source to reduce the likelihood of a Russian or Chinese first strike. I’d much rather have a…

Good call, I filled in a badly pitted coolant passage gasket surface on a Ford 302 timing cover with JB weld and it held up great, just make sure to sand it flush.

It looks to me like a case of DWOAF, short for Driving While Old As F*ck.

Fair point, but Jeep’s other products are really only about as capable as the average Subaru, and the gap in capabilty between a Compass and say a CRV is much smaller than the gap in capabilty between a Compass and a Wrangler. Ultimately the perceived capabilty and image that comes with owning something like a Compass…

I think you are being a little hard on Chrysler, the 200 is going away and the 300 and Pacifica are pretty damn decent vehicles that solidly represent the near-luxury category. Still, does it make sense to have a brand with only 2 vehicles? I’m not sure that it does.

A busy dad who doesn’t want to hear his daughter compain that the car is broken down every other week.

Nope. Too busy filming. Phones have the ability to provide instant courage to the most moronic amongst us. I seriously think there is an inverse relationship between IQ and willingness to place oneself in harm’s way in order to capture a cell phone video.

The Z3 is the only BMW I’ve spent a significant amount of time driving and I love it: torquey straight six, very good handling, good enough power, and still has that old-school built like brick sh*thouse German quality. Seriously, the door on a Z3 weighs more than an entire Miata.

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The Dongfeng missile is an unproven design (like most Chinese “advanced” weapons systems) that relies on an extremely complex network of regular satellites, mini satellites, drones, aircraft, and over the horizon radar to properly target a carrier battle group. Chances are the US would be able to punch more than a…

I promise it isn’t just a few people on Jalopnik, the no extra add-ons and fees dealership I bought my Jeep from has hundreds of positive online reviews and had a line of people ahead of me waiting to go through financing. They were selling more cars than they could handle and had competitive but not the absolute…

Marketing 101...people hate fees, espcially for something that isn’t optional like completing the paperwork necessary to sell a car. Tacking on hidden and “mandatory” fees is an admission that the business model is flawed and relies on trickery and misdirection to sell cars. I paid about $750 more than the lowest…

There is no logic to the fee, businesses shouldnt charge an additional fee to provide a very basic component of thier service. It is the equivalent of a restaurant charging a $5 fee to deliver your meal to the table. Just a very silly shell game that irritates customers.

I believe that’s called crossing a “gore” point, you can get a huge ticket for doing so here in AZ. Not sure where the name gore comes from, maybe all of thr blood and guts that are spilled from the resulting accident?

Yeah his taste in music is a bigger crime than crossing a solid white line.

Which countertop car-parts toy is more fun: the Lucas gear oil crank or the worn vs new shock display with the attached pull levers?

The boat is much close in design to a gondola than a paddleboard, but crossing the ocean in a gondola doesn’t sound very epic...makes you think the guy is subsisting on lasagna and chianti while belting out corny Italian love songs.

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