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http://jalopnik.com/bowel-movement-bandit-has-pooped-on-19-cars-in-ohio-for-1690872345 A man in Akron, Ohio has pooped on 19 cars parked in driveways in the last few days. Pooped. Like, out of his butt. I don't really know what else to say. Police are on the lookout for the man, who has dropped a dook on 19 cars between 5:30 and 6:30 AM over the last several days. They say that he's done it over the course of several days, but hopefully it's more than just a few, since it can't be healthy to shit that much in just a couple days. Police have been at a loss for what to do, but then there was a break in the case. He was caught on camera with his pants down and bowels moving. What I mean is that he was taking a hot shit on the front of a second generation Neon. If you have information on who this man is and what has inspired him to shit all over cars in the Akron area, call the Akron Police 330-275-2552

The the safest solution to never getting rained on is to never go outside. Of course the report is going to say the safest solution to a flood is to remove all the water, it doesn't mean it is the smartest or best solution.

The film the bridge segments the week of the airing so while the review and challenge segments were shot, the show was not complete enough to air when he was suspended. If I had to guess, and I know nothing about British Government HR practices, an HR complaint of this severity and magnitude requires immediate suspension while investigated. From a BBC politics standpoint I imagine a couple of things are in play here: 1) the BBC is testing the public outcry for getting rid of Jezza while he can be portrayed the bad guy; 2) the BBC is following the protocol to the letter so if it does come out that the suspension was justified they can then seek lost revenue from him for the un-aired episodes because they can't finish them.

Fucking Nailed it: http://jalopnik.com/jeremy-clarkson-threw-a-punch-at-producer-two-more-epi-1690624321

I wonder if by fracas they really meant to say fist fight. One of the things I love (and loathe) about Clarkson is that he is a blunt instrument. I don't particularly care for his politics or non-car related other media projects, but he is the primal ID to Capt. Slow's sensibility and Hamster's bonkers attitude. It sometimes sucks that in being a blunt instrument he sometimes has almost no sense of self preservation (a flaw he and I share) thinking he can make his way on bravado and confidence. There really is no show without clarkson, just as there would be no show without those other two guys (what were their names again?).

I hit potholes all the time. Yep...That's what a jeep with 30" tires is for. So I have a question. How fast are y'all hitting these potholes? I don't think I have ever bent a wheel in a pothole and I lived in NYC where the potholes can swallow trucks, and New Orleans whose paved roads not only rival the moon's surface for craters but also move on a daily basis because the water table is less than 6 feet from the surface. Granted I have never owned a car with 18" or larger rims either so maybe I'm just not in the demo for a bent rim.

I assume you don't mean car dealer.

Don't leave notes. Notes = evidence and also piss people off. Face to face or passive aggressive landscaping.

Big Fuck off stones painted white. It's how they solved the "curb-less" curb parking in my parents neighborhood in NY. but talk to them first. Most times it can be worked out with a 5 second conversation, and if it can't at least you gave them the chance to prove they are the assholes you suspect they are.

Germain is not an Audi dealer so yeah they are not going to CPO your S4. As a friend of mine has told me many many many many times - if you are going to own a used audi out of warranty, be ready to spend $1000 minimum on it at a moments notice. We've been really lucky with the wife's A3, but that is mostly because the car is a re-badged VW Mark V GTi and I handle most of the simple fault items like coil packs and cam followers myself. as far as DSG or DCT or whatever the heck they call it - well it's still a car and sometimes things happen. My mother just had to replace a faulty flywheel in he E90 325xi because less than 10% of them crack and she just happened to win (lose?) the cracked flywheel lottery (BTW, a BMW flywheel for a MT AWD BMW is $1200 in parts alone). in the case of my buddy's car the thing is over 100K miles and let's be honest, clutches (even those actuated by robots) are still a maintenance wear item that needs replacement from time to time. While I personally think the DCT/DSG is pretty much how they should have been building automatic transmissions from the beginning they are a new technology and like any new tech there is an expensive learning curve usually paid for by the user. Everything I am hearing about these automatics is that while they are pretty reliable and good for high mileage, if something happens that requires removal from the car it will cost you the equivalent of a used Honda fit.

At $26K I think you got a good deal. Did you get a warranty? is the car CPO? Buddy of mine has an older DCT S4 that is out of warranty, just got handed a $4K bill to replace the clutch packs. You made the right choice sticking with a manual trans.

except in very rare cases (e.g. BMW 1M) there is no such thing as "equity" in a new car. It's a losing proposition from day one. Let's just be clear about that you aren't signing up to "build" anything just "lose less". In 1995 at 17 years old I paid $19K in cash for a jeep wrangler (about $26,500 in today's money) and 20 years later I am still driving that same car and it is worth at best, maybe $5K (inline 6 with 5 speed manual and mostly stock unmolested). I've actually lost more money than I paid because of the power of inflation and purchasing power. Wanna know the only new car I ever saw "equity" On? two months after buying the wrangler I won a 1995 S-10 blazer (in 1990's teal) in a raffle, and somehow managed to get the charity to pay the tax too. What happened to that equity? I gave it to my mother so she could trade it in 1999 for a 2 door tahoe sport. Now at 175,000 miles they want to give it back to me (brake lines rusted out but still runs great plus new tranny) - so my $100 raffle ticket netted me $2500 of "equity" at the end. We all make stupid decisions with money when we are young. The important thing is to learn from it. It's your money and you have it handled, as long as you are being smart about this. When I was single and had a good job I would buy second cars and motorcycles like it was nothing and if I took a couple grand hit - no biggie. Now that I have a wife and kids and debt and stuff I which I had ever dollar I figuratively burned on stupid things like a bandit trans am project car or my money pit kawasaki triple vintage race bike (10 years and still not race ready!). Just trying to be the voice of reason is all. Of course I also miss the invincible days of being young enough to consider Tuesday night a "heavy drinking night" but that is another story for another time.

I'm starting to see a pattern here. you were negative on the hyundai so you transferred that to the accord. Now you are negative on the accord (partially because of the Hyundai) and you want to transfer that debt to the S4 (and you figure you'll lose $5K). What happens when you want to dump the S4 because that first maintenance came back at $2K and you realize it's too expensive a car to own? you going to roll $5K of hyundai, honda, and audi into something else? Look I'm no financial adviser but it seems like a no brainier that you should wait until your lease is up - take the $3K hit and then proceed with the S4. If you can afford the $425 payment then bank the $102 difference between it and your existing payment till may and you'll have about $1200 to put toward the $3K difference. Plus all the 2008s you are looking at will be one year cheaper. and not to be argumentative, but using honda's website calculator I got the lease option for an accord sport to be either $216 (if I put $2K down) or $266 with zero down. I get that the Hyundai loss probably made up the difference in that $323 number and that's a bummer because with interest you probably paid more for than loss than you ought to. I have to imagine someone else on here will weigh in and tell me I'm wrong, so I totally get that but I think you are heading down a road that will snowball the bad hyundai situation even worse.

why are you $3K negative on your lease? Also why did you lease an accord? and how did you get a $323 lease on a car that normally leases out for $200?

B7 is 2004 to 2008 B8 is 2008 to present B7 is the 4.2L v8. Not a terrible engine but the whole chain thing has people running scared. B8 is the 3.0L V6 with a roots supercharger (not a turbo).

You couldn't pay me in gold plated pussy to own a bmw with an SMG trans. Ask any e46 M3 owner why. I'm a bit of a wonk only because I owned one but....you could probably find a low mile E34 M5 for what you are looking to pay for one of the awful V10 models. Handbuilt, rock solid, it's not 400 hp but it's quick enough and if it really is clean it's a really balanced driving experience. I had a 1990 in oxford green and it was a great car. Plus it won't depreciate. That being said the E39 M5 is a fantastic car as well. again you are giving up some of the fancier BMW toys to come out in the last 10 years but the E39 M5 is one of the all time greats. There is a reason they are still $20K for clean ones where as the M5 that came after you can pick up for the price of a used condom. I hate to say it but it seems like right now for used gentleman express 4 door sedans the best value seems to be the Gen 1 and Gen 2 CTS-V cars. I mean, it's kinda hard to screw up something with the simplicity of an anvil. have you considered a 2007-2011 BMW M3 Sedan? Years ago I worked the CTS-V challenge as the photographer for Jalopnik. I got to ride in all sorts of hotted up 4 doors around Monticello including the CTS-V, M5, M3, Pontiac G8, Lancer Evo, Jaguar XF (I think it was an R), etc... The car I wanted to like the most but ended up liking the least was the M5 (a 2008 model). The car I wanted to hate but ended up liking the most was the CTS-V (esp when caddy's driver for hire took me down the back straight at 155mph in a car with no cage) but the two cars I couldn't have cared about before but suddenly liked very much were the G8 GT and the BMW M3 sedan. I honestly would own a G8 if I didn't loath automatics with a vengeance and can't afford a GXP. But the BMW did the best job of almost catching the CTS-V during the challenge. I didn't get a ride in the Audi S5 that had shown up. Jack Baruth brought it and for some reason there was some flap about it not being a 4 door or something and he and my paths didn't cross that day. anyway, that's what I would look for: G8 GT, E90 M3 sedan, maybe even a lancer Evo.

walk it off, he'll be find.

6.2L V8 SFI (estimated 415 hp [309.8 kW] @ 5900 rpm, 415 lb-ft of torque [560.3 N-m] @ 4600 rpm) (STD) Transmission, 6-speed automatic with TAPshift (STD) Rear axle, 3.27 ratio Keyless start, push button Differential, limited slip, rear Rear wheel drive Cooler, engine oil Cooler, transmission oil (Deleted when (MN6) 6-speed manual transmission is ordered.) Oil life monitoring system Battery rundown protection Alternator, 140 amps

yeah, that isn't going to happen. Everybody has already earmarked those as unicorns worth chasing. But I am right there with you - autotragic is just the wrong tranny for this car. Considering the CTS-V is now a $71K proposition (and possibly only available in coupe form?) think of these as the cheap way into CTS-V fun but with a warranty and without the CTS-V name premium.

I wish I could remember which dealer we were at. My friend found it and dragged me along to look at the car. It was already December and the car was not sold and roughly $10K off just to get it "the hell off the lot" is what the salesman told him. It had been nailed to their lot since early 2014 like it was a statue. Quick scan of Cars.com turned up this loaded one with 40 miles for $38K though it is not local: http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/603884616/overview/ The nearest cheapest one is the $39K car at Jack Maxton, but it has 124 miles so either it's a new one listed as used or they sold it and then the buyer traded it: http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/628826075/overview/ Wanna know what a pain Chevy is being about these cars? I tried to use their tool to find one and it said there were no new or used in their dealer's inventory. yet all the ohio dealers have at least one and Jack Maxton has two including this red 2014 with 0 miles that they already knocked $5K off the price of in the ad: http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/608963439/overview/ ya know what's even weirder? white, black, and red the dealers can't seem to give away - but if they have a mystic green or a perfect blue one they are holding out for MSRP. I think there were only 5 out of 62 cars on cars.com that were green and only one alchemy purple and one or two blue ones. the rare weird colors seem to be the ones selling but to be honest if it were me I'd buy a green or a blue one over all the other colors. here is a local one that is almost $10K off: http://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/601324766/overview/

considering how rare they are and how rare that color is I probably saw this exact car on a chevy lot 3 months ago. They were giving almost $10K off MSRP for it which seemed like a reasonable deal considering these cars are $46K new. Funny Quirk about these cars - GM loses money on them and therefor doesn't market them at all. They exist solely because GM has to meet some funny Australian contractual obligation: http://jalopnik.com/2014-chevrolet-ss-the-jalopnik-review-1482793126

I dunno, these things seem cheap enough now that it is almost like you can run through them like potato chips without care. Buy $3K Disco, run it into trees, brush, and large land mammals till it won't run anymore - then part it out on ebay, send the rest to the yard, buy another $3K Disco, rinse, repeat. just don't rely on it as a primary car.

just my unwanted tarnished 2 pennys but....those late model headlights really look like they are trying too hard. The early square old plain boring headlights remind you that this is somewhat of a utensil, appliance, swiss army knife. You want more lighting? get 5 marchal round driving lights with white covers and the kitty cat logo and install those. The off road bumper does look great though. Again reminds you it's supposed to be a tool, even if you are mall crusin. It's a land rover - where are the too aggressive knobbies and the scratches from all the tree branches and brush you are foraging through? It's even army green!!! get some driving lights, some tires you need to shout to be heard off of, a whip antenna, a hardcore roof rack that can hold a Volkswagen, and then some exotic animal kill stickers for the door.

Can you explain this some more? I always figured you want a neutral sidewall on the wheel for neutral lateral deflection in either direction. not sure I understand. Drag racers don't want any lateral deflection, they want a large sidewall for longitudinal deflection (think wrinkle wall slick) so that some of the initial hit is absorbed and the car is less likely to break traction. They put up with lateral deflection to get that little bit of give on launch.

So back when musclecars were still somewhat cheap and there really wasn't a rim size bigger than 17" in diameter and even then 17s were expensive, what we used to do was stretch fat tires on to rims skinnier than the tire's bead. Usually these were bias ply, or belted, but sometimes radials like BFG Radial T/A and they were usually going on 14" rims. It would cause the sidewall to balloon out a little so we called them balloon tires (I'm sure there are other regional names for it. We did this for a lot of reasons but usually priority #1 was to get a big fat meaty gumball outback without having to buy new rims. So I was thinking about this when I saw someone trying to drive their hellaflushed VW MKIII in the snow yesterday. It's the same kind of stretching but a different direction. So forget the look for a second, what is actually worse, more dangerous, less a performance upgrade for the tire? Putting a too wide a tire on too narrow a rim, or too narrow a tire on too wide a rim? At least when we did the fat tire thing we did it because most of us ran brackets and we wanted more traction in a straight line, but maybe there is a performance advantage I am not seeing from the stretched tire thing. Discuss.