Not so much worried about factory vs. aftermarket as value in general use. Most people are going to mate up their iPhone through Bluetooth and go with that; $3000 in speakers to listen to MP3s is kind of pointless. And even with more traditional sources like CDs and radio, general sound quality isn’t going to be… Read more

How much of that $17,140 (!) in options would you really keep if you were ordering the car yourself? Read more

Mustang? Read more

This is a complete abdication of journalistic responsibility and a massive insult to everyone affected by this person’s wrongdoing. Read more

The E34 M5 is a perennial personal favorite, but dear Lord is that character in the video a twit. Read more

There is only one true Orlove criterion which must be known: https://jalopnik.com/the-mercedes-s63-amg-coupe-will-it-road-head-1563873203 Read more

Maybe not his greatest artistic achievement, fine. But he’s having so much fun with the whole idea, who cares? Read more

Vague grasp of interest in Indycars and the then-recent Fox Mustang/Capri in early childhood, but once I saw this there was no going back.

Oh: NSFW, sorta. Read more

Some of us knew.

Oh, “French Connection” is something else entirely: 1970s, heroin, Popeye Doyle as a much more colorful and nastier (and therefore more compelling) human being than Frank Bullitt, actual intrinsic humor in some of the set pieces (the diner counter! the disassembled/reassembled Continental!), on and on. Read more

Raph, it’s a 1960s police procedural with a few character quirks and odd twists. It has a certain, appropriately glum vibe. It’s not supposed to be a video game. Read more

Oh yeah, easy. Highway mileage in the 40s no problem. I can do a 560 mile round trip to Mom’s on one tank with some to spare. Not the sexiest attribute, but genuinely nice. Read more

My ‘16 Jetta S with all the running improvements (irs, rear discs, etc.) suddenly looks like a future classic. Read more

I am the slightly hypocritical/guilty owner of a Platinum Gray ‘16 Jetta. Killer-post-Dieselgate-deal lease terms said I had to acquire from dealer stock, and this was their only S with a manual transmission. I really wanted Silk Blue, would have been okay with red. Read more

Harlequin!

Not even that. Car dealers love the German rainbow because silver and gray and so on are inoffensive and therefore easy to sell. Someone has to want red or green; most customers are okay-what-are-the-terms with neutrals. Read more

Unrelated, but you win the name game for the month. Read more

The weird thing about Mötorhead is that they may have been a monumental influence on both metalheads and punks - like a lot of old-timers say, this was the one band everyone cound agree on - but they clearly weren’t either. Or much of anything genre-wise, except a straight-up power trio that ditched the artsy…

You’re tall. You need heated seats. You loathe SUVs but have a clear fondness for wagons. You’d like to at least have a shot at a manual transmission. You go for stuff that’s a bit off-center but not outrageous. All noble and good.