Even better: line it up against its direct competitor, the FJ45: Read more

Restored FJ40s are in this price neighborhood (let’s not even get into Defenders) and this is way cooler and rarer. Not a mass-market play but definitely NP for the intended audience. Read more

1st: Canny move. Maybe the perfect time to announce new-model changes, especially secondary (but still important) stuff like midcycle refreshes. Have NYIAS be the end of “concept” season, have Detroit be the launch pad for everyone’s new model year. Read more

I want to live in the much-cited but apparently mythical world where good NA Miatas are in steady supply at $4-5K. Even sort of average ones are $7000 up here in the Northeast. This thing may actually be underpriced. Read more

This is one of those cases where at some point the car stopped being a vehicle and became an art project. The only possible justification for this thing’s existence is as fulfillment of someone’s extraordinary vision and idealistic determination, and I suppose we can respect it for that. Read more

It’s not the flammable part (cotton burns just fine, of course) but the melting; synthetics that melt onto skin- or, even less fun to visualize, synthetics that melt onto skin while burning - are a horror-movie mess. Burning cotton will at least just fall away without clinging. Read more

Signs point to maybe. Crossovers are starting to be more popular in Europe and the Chinese like them almost as much as Americans. Read more

Sure, rub it in our faces. Read more

Agree with him about black wheels, but gold would’ve worked better with the green. Read more

Wrote about the same thing like six months ago: Read more

Aren’t drivers supposed to avoid cotton underwear too? Vaguely remember reading something about how perspiration in all that soft absorbent comfiness can turn to steam in a fire situation and cause a totally different kind of burns. Read more

Baby Porsche 928. Read more

VW DNA did sort of manage to keep alive by spawning the one true Volkswagen DNA offshoot, Porsche, which keeps the remnants of original VW DNA alive to this day, significantly evolved, of course, with its rear- and mid-mounted, boxer-engined cars, the 911, Boxster, and Cayman. Read more

People used to buy early Mustangs and MGs in this kind of weathered-but-not-dead shape as reasonably-priced weekend toys all the time. Only difference here is the march of time. Read more

Bleh. Happy to leave it to the hipsters and reflexive contrarians. Totally worth it to go slightly higher for the 997.

Important note: Sometimes even the fake headlines were stone classics. Read more

Oh God please don’t say that. Read more

“I’m going to be thoughtful and fair and take note of positives and negatives.” Read more

Same thing that happened to longhood 911s, but more. Read more