I usually do not gratuitously besmirch the solid reputation of the electronics in the Aston Martin Yolanda, but one of my friends did a cross-country trip in one of these in the 1990s & it went about as well as you'd expect in that regard. The details: alloymag.com/aston-martin...

I've clearly underestimated how mentally exhausting it would be to be actually living in a Paul Verhoeven film.

I now see JDM cars every time I go somewhere. The same was not true even five years ago.

Folx, somebody who’s good at the economy help me out here: Is it a good sign when there are Harleys for sale in people’s front yards just before the holidays?

Yesterday was French Car Day at Alloy, (which was not planned at all, I swear), but it all started with the fact that I wrote a thing about a car I think about all the time: The Pujo 604, esp its diesel-flavored versions. alloymag.com/peugeot-604-...

The Icy Hot Stuntaz are now closer in time to the election of Ronald Reagan than they are to us.

This week on Alloy we got a chance to revisit one of our fave imports from the darkest days of the Malaise era, when British Leyland thought the Rover SD1 would do well in 'murrica cause we liked big sedans with V8s. (The venture did not go as planned).

Tesla has figured out a long time ago that it can keep facelifting its (objectively dated) cars pretty much indefinitely. And its buyers seem to agree. alloymag.com/new-teslas/

Don't know what is breaking my brain more about 2026: the fact that the Afeela sedan is still set to launch (at $89,900), or that the goth-style Jag-wire EV is also on the way. What a time to be alive.

Seemingly few lessons had been learned by Europe's auto industry during the pandemic. Here's another perfect storm, but this time there's no pandemic: alloymag.com/small-crisis/

This year's Tokyo show, as usual, is packed with concepts that the automakers themselves don't want to turn into production cars. alloymag.com/in-concept/

Sprinkling some skepticism over Toyota's plan for Century as a brand above Lexus, & whether Century matters at all outside Japan. Mostly, this experiment reminds me of two obscure state limo luxury brands also trapped in their own respective countries & clientele circles. alloymag.com/new-century/

I will be your guide & chronicler to our Neill Blomkamp future, with occasional looks back to The Before Times.

This week we have launched Alloy. It will be very different from the modern car news & culture website experience. Here's what it's all about & what we're gonna do with it: alloymag.com/welcome-to-a...

Almost no point in doing a Halloween post b/c everything is a GD horror in the auto industry at the moment, with Verhoeven/Blomkamp themes overlapping. Still some ways to go before we reach Peak Blomkamp, I keep telling myself.

Increasingly powered solely by cans of Zoa from Costco. Hoping they are not classified as rare earths, as I'm already seeing some shortages.

Is it very xennial to regularly think about Anton Chigurh quotes & how they made a lot of sense? Asking for a friend.

Living through an era where every business you interact with tries to sign you up for something, sometimes stealthily, is very distressing & is going to have mental health consequences for a generation of older millennials.

Been thinking about The Most Painfully-2010s Movie Moments, & it's a close tie between Miller's planet with knee-deep water, & Littlefinger & Bane talking nonsense at low, room-level voice in a plane with a missing door. I think Petyr Baelish & Bane might be numero uno in this contest.

If you're shopping for a used car, ::burp:: whatever you do, don't look for it online. Youtube will serve you up ads for cars and dealerships for months afterward.

Mr. T should be on Mount Rushmore? I’m out of ideas.

Finally, a correctly-sized Costco truck. IG: SammietheSambar

Few things make me feel as old as seeing a C/D comparison test from the year I graduated high school. www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comp...

Having trouble seeing these on the road when they turn a decade old. www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a629...

Guise, this is a hundred grand. What are we doing here? www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a660...

The 1990 version of this headline is "What if Your Burning Land Rover Could Eject Its Engine?" www.caranddriver.com/news/a680419...

Once a week I quietly sigh & mentally thank Neill Blomkamp for showing us our future.

Jabba’s son is in this too… which is a thing I never thought I’d ever type or say.

Went to grab some lunch and just saw a newish Range Rover engulfed in flames out in front of an AutoZone

I was pretty late to covering AI but seemed to get it right in February 2023 www.wheresyoured.at/degenerative...

Plateless JDM Mitsubishi sitting for weeks by emissions testing place is totes chilling & has no problems, why do you ask?

At first, JJ Abrams wanted to name him Supreme Leader Snake. But Disney was like: “JJ, we can’t do that, there’s like a whole Kurt Russell franchise, you know?” And he goes: “Well, can we just change one letter?” And after a long pause Disney went: ::sigh:: “Okay, probably.”

My local Volvo dealer has a ton of *used* 2024 and 2025 models. Very encouraging.

The Venture Capital and Private Credit industry CANNOT afford the $250bn+ that OpenAI needs to fulfil their contract with Oracle, and at the current pace, *all* US venture capital will be exhausted in the next six quarters, if not faster. www.wheresyoured.at/oracle-opena...

Lawd, just noticed @thealso.bsky.social by this 1985 Volvo 340 DL at Carlisle in 2022 (not my pic, sourced from Flickr, taken by Paul B., I was not there that year). Jim, is this your doing? Confess.

Love youtube for serving me ads for stuff I looked for days ago & already bought. Gonna be seeing ads for Volvos & hedge trimmers for months now I guess before every vid. That's all they can do -- that's their ad business model: Stuff you looked for days ago.

Lately been pronouncing “vegan” in casual convos the same way as if referring to aliens from the planet Vega & nobody has corrected me yet. ::shrugs::

Seen on eBay. Ngl, kinda curious about these. Dried out & turned brittle no doubt, but still.

I still want a refund for having seen the second half of “Prometheus.” And punitive damages for the mental damage it did.

“OMG, it’s Sigmund Jähn!”

The normalization of four-figure electric bicycles has warped the vintage foreign fixie market too, & now sellers want A King’s Ransom for old rusted frames on rotted tires.

I think we are still at Verhoeven station, but the next stops are definitely Cuaron & then immediately Blomkamp.

This future is exhausting.

That is *a lot* of front overhang, unlike the Rosemeyer Concept of 2000 (which is like a hundred times better). Why does it need this much front overhang?

Amazing how Alex Jaeger turned out four great designs, this one of course being the most beloved by fans. Hard to believe it has been almost 30 years (I feel like I'm gonna puke just thinking about that number). Next year FC will be as distant from us in time as TOS was at Huntsville in 1996!

If year 2000 me only knew that in 25 years I'd see the Audi Rosemeyer Concept scaled down, run thru a PS filter to get rid of all the curves, & given a correctional-facility interior...

Concept art for something I am working on for someone. (Oohh, mystery!)

Love the W202 wagons, & have actually seen one stateside ages ago on diplos, & was actually thinking of importing one a couple of months ago. The Euro ones are typically *not* high-spec inside like USDM W202s tho. bringatrailer.com/listing/2000...

Is it normal for IG to be half-broken all the time? It is, isn't it? ::sigh::