Lane splitting might be considered a right by Californians, but I used to commute in the grid-lock created by lane-splitters being mopped up from San Diego freeways. The problem is that at least half of the cars on the road at any given time are driven by tourists who've never seen a lane-splitter, or they're unmaintained clunkers registered in Baja California and driven by unaccountable illegals. Even if you're lane splitting at the low speeds and low speed differentials that the police tacitly endorse, there's no guaranty that someone who has no idea why you'd be there won't change lanes as you pass from this world to the next. ... View more

The electric car peaked before the gas powered car. You can look it up. Edwardian era electric cars were far more user-friendly than gas powered cars while possessing greater transportation utility than horses. Then gasoline powered cars reached a state of development where they were as easy to operate as an EV while being infinitely better at all the things they're still infinitely better at, like providing true freedom of movement. ... View more

Why would we run out of gas? There are more known oil reserves now than at any time in history. Previously dry wells are replenishing. It's more likely that the earth is an engine for producing oil than it is that anyone who understands science believes in AGW. ... View more

Somehow there were innovations in F1 when the team budgets wouldn't have covered the teams' current social media budgets.  ... View more

I was talking about 1978 models when I mentioned that era. The '78 Accord and 320i both needed serious modification to hit 60 mph in under ten seconds.  ... View more

Aggressively trendy is a positive trait? That's a repulsive idea. ... View more

GM even had planned obsolescence for their model names. The Bel Air went from top of the line to bottom of the line and then extinct in twenty years. It's about as bad as BMW mocking the people who bought their cars twenty years ago. ... View more

How long before the Diamond Star cars become more collectible than BMW M3s? ... View more

My friend and I test drove a 5-speed Contour and a 5-speed Neon after we hit a tree while flying through the air in his Integra a few days before he was scheduled to move to Atlanta to start graduate school at Georgia Tech in 1995. Both were positively floppy compared to the Acura and my Dinan/TMS-Bilstein-fortified '88 BMW. I was considerably more impressed by a Contour or Mystique I rented in 1999 while I was living in Manhattan. The Zetec-R engine was the high-point of Detroit four-cylinders, as far as I'm concerned. The chassis wasn't quite Plymouth Breeze caliber, but the engine and transmission were better. ... View more

That may be true, but it was a 2nd generation Accord sedan I rode in that I just couldn't pretend wasn't in another world of attention-to-detail and refinement from the Detroit products I was familiar with in 1985.  ... View more

If you read Car and Drivers from that era, they were extremely in favor of readers using aftermarket turbocharging kits, perhaps because they were sold by advertisers who knew how to schmooze. Frustrated that your new Accord isn't as fast as your Boss 302 was? Turbocharge it! Sure, it will still be much slower than your old solid-lifter V8, but at least you'll blow a few engines to pieces by the time you get the carburetion and ignition timing right! Disappointed that your new incredibly-expensive 320i doesn't feel as fast as we used to make the 2002tii sound? Turn it into an on-going project with a turbocharger! ... View more

What does government owned land have to do with markets? Without misanthropic 'environmentalists' we would be completely energy independent, so we wouldn't need to waste blood and treasure in strange lands. Stop fighting oil. The reason the Chinese brainwashed you to reject oil was because we have it and they've been accumulating EV related raw materials, no matter how much ecological devastation and child slavery is involved. Want to be a decent human being? Support domestic oil production and consumption. ... View more

Jalopnik seems to have memory-holed that fake article. Maybe they were embarrassed by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6KUqSfZtPY ... View more

EVs had already been obsolete for decades when the Airflow came to market. ... View more

It doesn't appeal to BMW traditionalists, and people who just want a badge that goes fast are better served by the M2. I'm amazed it retained elevated values from the moment the M2 became available. I guess there is something to be said for scarcity in a world where there are people who will buy things just so other people can't have them. ... View more

I've read multiple sources that say the new chassis will be sold to the teams by Dallara Automobili S.p.A. Maybe they should do away with 'stage racing' to reduce costs so the series can hang on for a few more years. ... View more

How is power calculated for these engines? 425 lb-ft of torque at over 22,000 RPM would equate to about 1,800 horsepower, although nothing about the Chrysler Turbine cars' performance suggests that they made more than 130 horsepower. ... View more

As nice a job as Lyons did of translating the 1941 Chrysler Newport into a post-war two-seater, my desire for one didn't survive closely examining an XK120 and driving an XK140. Although the straight line performance was above that of any four cylinder British roadster from even thirty years later; the ergonomics, control relationships, torturous driving position and handling were all very pre-war in character. I was left with an impression of what it might have been like to pilot a nineteen-thirties streamliner that looked advanced while being antique. ... View more

I had a toy version of this car-boat when I was a kid. It was about a foot long and functioned both on the floor and in the bath-tub. ... View more

Seventy-five thousand dollar Wranglers are the direct result of bad voting choices. 'Chrysler' would be selling a hundred and fifty thousand 5.7 liter Hemi Wranglers and Gladiators every year for less than $50K with every option imagined if it weren't for Manchurian CAFE targets. ... View more

Somebody dodged a bullet! That somebody was not named Kevin Hart. ... View more

I guess this means the cancel-culture cretins haven't been able to strip Hart of his ability to make a living. ... View more

Other than saying that Le Mans was organized by Fee-ah instead of Ack-oh, what else didn't "Steve" know what he was talking about? ... View more

I'll say one thing for Porsche. They stopped using those broken-egg headlights. I understand that it might not seem like much of an accomplishment, since the first step was ignoring aesthetic and crash-repair concerns to produce cars with broken-egg headlights. Nonetheless, just think what a better looking world it would be if BMW management could have admitted that hiring Chris Bangle was a mistake and gone back to evolving their Corvairs. ... View more

This story reminds me of a sad kid who built an all terrain buggy prototype out of a Capsela motorized construction set for my middle school's science fair. Too bad we didn't live in Canada. ... View more

Those doors look big enough to make the hinges wilt like those on a GM coupe, but I do approve of the spacious back seat. ... View more

Prost driving Renault Espace F1    There have been crazier vans. ... View more

I just read a May 1969 Car and Driver review of the Subaru 1000 Sports, which was a Japanese-market, elevated-performance variant of the FF-1/Star that would be sold in the US the following year. Essentially, the Subaru 1000 served as a template for the car that would grow into the Leone, Loyale and Impreza in later years. When it wasn't available in the US, Car and Driver made it sound like a near-perfect combination of sports car zip and sedan practicality. All they said it needed was "twenty pounds of sound deadening and another thirty days in the suspension laboratory." It turns out this was a shameless attempt to cultivate FOMO in the readership, as the next positive review of a Subaru's driving characteristics occurred well over a decade after cars like the 1000 became available to Americans. They did say that, "what needs to be done now is to persuade Subaru to bury the 360, which is nothing short of a mechanical chamber pot, in a convenient watermelon patch and start importing the 1000 Sports to the USA." I feel like there should be a sic in there, but I'm not sure where. Convenient watermelon patch? ... View more

The last four stories about Challengers on Hagerty are about this Challenger. There are other families and other cars with other stories to be told. ... View more

For that price I'd get a Lexus LC500 instead. They're gorgeous, and the first few years of production haven't exhibited catastrophic corrosion issues in the manner that F-types were already known to disintegrate by 2017. ... View more

This was the car that pretty much every car enthusiast I knew was shopping for twenty-one years ago. The ones who bought them had short honeymoons. It's amazing how fast, 'I'm going to keep this car forever!' turned into, 'I went back to Mercedes-Benz(or Lexus).' A guy in my office bought one over a Ferrari thinking it would be a more practical choice only to have the clutch, differential, and then gearbox need replacement before the first oil change. His previous car was a 6-speed, twin-turbo 3000GT or Stealth; so it wasn't a matter of not knowing how to drive a stick. Another friend went from planning on buying a second one for his country home to deciding not to keep the one that he had in a few months. E39s were beautiful cars that drove brilliantly, but they aged like milk. I can't conceive of the proper level of humidity and combination of protectants that would keep the engineered biodegradation of the materials used in these cars from occurring. ... View more

Ronald Reagan doesn't deserve to be associated with the 55 mph national speed limit. It was enacted several years before he was elected and he worked to repeal the onerous law, ultimately signing the Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act that allowed 65 mph speed limits on rural highways. As for compliance with the law during the '80s, everyone knew how to get around it by then. There was a whole industry committed to thwarting this particular progressive affront to freedom. ... View more

I don't know when the last time is that I even thought of Olympia beer, but I did buy a fair amount of it when I was a teenager. "It's the Water," was their slogan. "It's the Water of Beers," was what we used to say when offering one to somebody who hadn't tried it before. ... View more

What does it say about our culture that so many people know about a movie car from the same era yet don't know about the most significant off-road racing car of all time? Especially when you consider that it was driven and owned by a man who was as cool and tough as an actor's fans think the actor to have been. Sad. ... View more

Maybe the author was confused by the four carburetors, which were a production option on some Corvairs. ... View more

Maybe the Cyclone deserves a serious look at half the money. ... View more

The problem is that if you're going to resto-mod many of these, why not just start with a low option car that costs a tenth as much in the same condition, or a third as much in infinitely better condition? The TR-6 looks like an easy refurb, but it will be a silly person indeed who pays more than five or six grand to take on the task. ... View more

The three vents in each of the front fenders are...challenging. The earlier exits for cooling air through the hood between the headlights were much more pleasing to the eye. ... View more

Commies used to admit that they were at war with the middle class, because they assumed people in the middle class didn't know the definition of the Bourgeoisie. They used to come right out and say they wanted to murder the middle class, counting on their belief that middle class people ignored the French. When the aspiring totalitarians of the globalist left say they want to restrict access to fossil fuels, what they really want to do is put the middle class toothpaste back in the tube. No oil means no freedom of movement. No freedom of movement means easy dominance by the people in control. No oil means no food safety or food diversity. No oil means very few single family homes. No oil means no life expectancies beyond peak productive years for the people who are today middle class because of the surpluses enabled by oil. The Great Reset that everyone from the World Economic Forum to Prince Charles is comfortable bragging about in public is the restoration of global slavery. As long as people like Angie Schmitt and Bill Gates feel empowered to share their ideas without consequences, that is where we are heading. ... View more

I look forward to further updates on your XR campaign. ... View more

That shift pattern is a tragedy waiting to happen. Whoever 'upgraded' the transmission should have looked at how other people make shift linkages that work for the driver as well as the gearbox. The shift pattern would ruin my enjoyment of driving the car, and the proportions would suck the joy from gazing upon it. The seller should have taken the money and run. ... View more

I never saw an Aurora in any of the shops I was associated with between 2005 and 2019. I'm not sure when I last saw one moving under its own power. Cadillac Northstars are well known for their failings. Did the Aurora V8s installed in the Shelby Series 1 cars also have oil circulation, head gasket, and carbon build-up issues? Cobras are valuable because they have impressive competition history and they combined classic sports car styling and handling with dependable Detroit V8s. The Series 1 has no competition history that I know of, has styling that is hard to get excited about, and whatever amazing road-holding it possesses might just hasten the demise of its frangible engine. Six figure valuations have more to do with modern monetary policy than they do with any lasting appeal of the car. I remember seeing a few of them at Symbolic in La Jolla almost twenty years ago. They're not entirely unattractive, but the GM components and switchgear combined with too much silver make them quite resistible in my opinion. ... View more

Ernie Adams created the Dwarf racing cars that evolved into the Legends cars being raced today. ... View more

I would never buy art in California. It's like playing Russian Roulette by yourself. ... View more

There are at least a dozen red 1953 Ford F100s for sale at any given time. Considering her level of effort and foresight, I'd have gone down the list and paid full ask for the first one that didn't have too many stories associated with it. Then it would just be a matter of overpaying for transportation. Over-privileged and entitled people are great for profiting the little people who didn't hold a fundraiser for globalists to help them wage their war on the west's middle class. ... View more

Assuming the Little Red Hen really spent her 911 loot on a basket-case 356 that she'll need to have restored at retail prices; she'll at least learn an appreciation for what the cat, the goose and the rat gave to her when the lowest estimate for duplicating their work is over a quarter of a million dollars. Or will she? Some people might just assume that the past project was a good time enjoyed by all, and some people feel entitled to take advantage of others no matter what. Has she at least been exposed to perspectives which reflect that she should have shared her windfall with those who made it possible? ... View more

The vehicles used to deliver mail in rural areas with brutal winters are already usually Japanese in Canada, and I've seen Subarus used for that function in the US too.  I've been having appliances delivered to my home recently, and I noticed that both Home Depot and Costco used Enterprise trucks or contractors with Enterprise trucks for the purpose. Why shouldn't Jeff Bezos do the same when it is on our nickel? The beauty of leasing is that it doesn't really matter if they rust after five years. We wouldn't own them, and I'm sure most of them would be put on the emptied ships that the Chinese used to export our manufacturing jobs and sent off to developing markets when they're returned.   ... View more

Climate change is a lie told to serve China our economy and eventually our heads. ... View more

The LLVs lasted so long because they cover an average of 18 miles a day; 5,388 miles a year. They average $3,000 in maintenance and repairs a year, or about 56 cents a mile. Gas is about another $1,500 a year. The USPS uses the rather absurd 84 cents a mile in operating costs as a justification to replace these turkeys with newer, much more absurd turkeys, but the fact is we own them and $4,500 a year in total costs is free compared to the costs associated with each new specialized government vehicle. This new program will make operating the LLVs look cheap. I'm pretty sure we'd be better off if the USPS leased Japanese-spec RHD small vans from Enterprise. ... View more

I don't think either car is improved by the presence of those vents. ... View more