This is what the average person in the comments complaining about the pace of Bullitt or French Connection looks like:

Can’t master basic grammar?

Ok Karen freaking out about some piddling insurance fraud

I actually have a beautiful (white) family, thank you.  I can only assume you’re projecting your own sad existence onto me.

Yeah that’s exactly what I am, dipshit

Ok Karen

Calm down, it’s going to be OK

I’m willing to bet that you’re the same person that will shout slogans like “defund police” and “abolish prisons.”

I suppose jalopnik is just the place to clutch pearls about “TBL propaganda”

I’m happy they’re dead.

If you commit an armed carjacking, you take your life into your own hands, whether it’s someone using their legal firearm to defend themselves, or you dying in a police pursuit.  Good riddance.

“downright developing-world levels of bad”

Bring in the developing world, get the developing world.

What the hell are you talking about

The punishment for armed carjacking should be death.  Is that so radical of an idea?

Because the buyer is being unrealistic in this market

well put

Agreed, this was a laughable suggestion.

I’m a pretty serious DIY car guy, I owned a B5 A4 (2.8, Quattro, stick, snow tires) it was a hoot of a car as a winter beater but I cut it loose before it could burn me too badly. Random cold start misfires, a pretty simple but annoying coolant leak from a sensor that was on the…

“We’re a little ahead of basic survival here”

He’s got $5k to spend on a used car in the salt belt in 2021, no this is very much about survival.

“basically run forever, even if you mistreat them”

Except for the whole headgasket thing on all teh EJ25s, and in a state line NY, expensive headaches chasing emissions/EVAP related CELs.

so basically the exact opposite of what you said

“I will say this though, I open these articles to read the train wreck and the ensuing comments.”

Same lmao.  This guy is just a grad-A moron