tommcparland
Tom McParland
tommcparland
Tom is a contributing writer for Jalopnik and runs AutomatchConsulting.com. He saves people money and takes the hassle out of buying or leasing a car. (Facebook.com/AutomatchConsulting)

No, but it would give you a quick and easy way to check the VIN and confirm or deny the car has what you want without having to call the dealer. Read more

Yeah there are others, but they aren’t easy and they are usually hit or miss.  Read more

I bet she knows...most folks that are steeped in the Porsche community know about this site Read more

Ford had a car in this segment, the Focus ST it was a great car....but while they sold a lot of Focus units they didn’t make enough profit off them to justify the car’s existence in the US market.   Read more

My undergrad is Literature with a minor in Philosophy, my wife’s undergrad is a double major Spanish and Philosophy....with our kids we are like - “You are gonna be good at math or else...” Read more

I think he was poking fun of himself a bit...as in “Unlike the Dr from last week who actually has money to spend, my Liberal Arts degree means a sub 10k car.” Read more

I would suggest you test drive the car first to make sure that is indeed what you want. Then shop the deals, the best deal might be two hrs away and it would be a waste to make that long trip for car you didn’t end up liking.  If you need some help, you know how to find me.  Read more

Kia, Hyundai, and Nissan are generally at the bottom. Read more

This is a car blog....we blog about car things. This is a car thing that I found and I thought other people that read this blog would find interesting. It turns out I was right. Not everything we do here is hard-hitting original reporting. No one is making anyone read content they don't like. Read more

The power kneeling system, drops the vehicle lower so that the angle of the ramp to get into the car is less steep. It can be disengaged if we are parked near a sidewalk or something.  Read more

The Sienna was a “first generation” conversion for that body style so Bruan didn’t have everything “dialed in” yet as far as electronics go they made things better in the subsequent generations. The electronics are prety well integrated on this Ody.  Read more

The Ody is FWD only there is no option for AWD, and even an AWD Sienna can’t be converted because the floor needds to be dropped and the frame alterned (see video), the middle driveshaft in an AWD car prevents that. Read more

Without the blown engine the trade-in value was somewhere around $3k, with a blown engine...I dunno, maybe half? Read more