Jim Clark. Read more

Side note, but still:

Fast, fun, and unusual for less than $150K?

How do your parents respectively feel about Sour Patch KIds? Read more

An upgraded Audi Q7, an upgraded Audi Q5, and a pile of parts from Ingolstadt all say guten tag!

More like a 7/8ths scale version of the ‘90s Chrysler minivan, but with good handling. Read more

3rd: we never saw it here, but Ford and VW did a joint venture for a well-received small van back in the ‘90s. VW’s was called the Sharan, Ford brought back the old Galaxy nameplate. (Seat had a version called the Alhambra.)

No news on what happened at Road & Track this week? Greater automotive-enthusiast world aside, that’s about 80% of Jalop alumni there. Read more

Oh my God, man. Read more

Anecdotal reporting says that the hot trend vehicle in Aspen lately is a first-gen Outback wagon - manual transmission mandatory. Read more

Do you still wake up in a cold sweat with the word “VANOS” haunting your dreams? Read more

By all accounts from those who were there Suzuki treated the US market as an annoying afterthought. They were the exception to the rule about the Japanese makers who really cared about what they were doing here and learned about their customers. Sure, some of their products were cool in a sort of non-mainstream way,…

Geo Rural. Read more

Somewhere in the back of my head I have the 25-year timer for importing a home-market E36 M3 running. It’s getting close. Read more

I fear that GTIs fall into the same category as, say, 911s or (more pertinent in this case) BMW M3s, where the older ones had the aura of glorious purity encircling them and the later ones are inevitably compromised until something comes along to restore the luster. Rinse, repeat. Read more

First, I have never read the word “anecdata” before. As a statistics teacher, it is now an instant favorite. Read more

Mark IV GTI.

Jason, I’m a bit surprised that you’re so uneasy and circumspect about this idea, because you innately (if perhaps subconsciously) understand this topic better than most folks. You are, after all, the house guru for the gold standard of essential motoring: old Volkswagens. Read more

Looking forward to this happening with lots of AbEx stuff from the ‘40s and ‘50s at some point.

I spent hours and hours playing this game in the early Eighties. The part that sticks with me is how the different cars had primitive-but-meaningful dynamic differences; the blue and tan were evenly matched, but it was more interesting to have the red (slightly faster) and green (slightly better grip) face off and see… Read more