More after the fact. Read more

Oh this is sad to do. I love these cars - they really were just about the best thing in the world in its day - but get the feeling the price is at least 20% optimistic. Read more

Gripping. Needs more car chases tho. Read more

Dwayne Johnson and Eva Green are agents working to stop a gunrunning scheme involving Jason Statham as a turncoat Anglo heading up a faction of Quebecois separatist terrorists who run Alpine A110s in vintage rallies in eastern Canada and the northeast US. Read more

Completely to the side of the questions above: Am I the only person who thinks that Rachael Leigh Cook is absurdly freaking lovely in “She’s All That” and so that movie has no real point? Read more

Please run for President. Your country needs you. Read more

‘Scuse me for coming up with another idea. Read more

That’s BMW’s other Warsaw Pact sister. Besides EMW (Eisenacher Motorenwerke) there’s the lesser-known CMW (Caspian Monster Works).

It’s not hovering. It’s just mid-bounce on those big bouncy tires. Read more

Gack. Track two is “Shiner.” Read more

The three tracks on Side One of Rodan’s only full LP, 1994's “Rusty.” Start with a shadowy meditation (“Bible Silver Corner”), slam into paint-lifting recombinant post-hardcore (“Shine”), then interlace the two for twelve minutes as the world ends (“The Everyday World of Bodies”). Quietly one of the very greatest… Read more

Side One of “Copper Blue” is a top-seed contender for the strongest, most consistent, most incandescent five-song run on any LP ever. As the rules sit, though, “Changes” -> “Helpless” -> “Hoover Dam” takes a very correct place among the elect. Read more

Life imitating art.

Exactly nothing in that second sentence is really under consideration here. (I really had to think about whether I wanted to mention the Cherokee in the first place, but seemed germane and nothing has ever really replaced it.) A Jeep is a Jeep. Read more

“Logorama” won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Short.

This is a fun category. The New Beetle started like this, a side project that wasn’t made official until well into the process. Same with the Mercedes 300SEL 6.3, which was an engineer’s personal hot rod until Rudi Uhlenhaut drove it and insisted on making it a full production car. Read more

Best marketing move since the Super Bowl commercial. Finally lines up against the top Cayenne. Read more

Oh, they care. Great ego boost at the office or brunch. They just know fuck-all about using any of it correctly. Read more

(passive aggressive clueless moron who can barely keep the car inside their lane markings) Read more

Biggest real problem: near-zero cargo space. There’s a dismally small shelf behind the seats and a bit of space around the spare tire.