Oh yeah, I might move Jalopnik to Austin. YOUR MOVE DE BLASIO.
1st gear. Everybody wants Lincoln to build a reminder of the amazing mid '60s land yacht. So come on Ford, build a us a sled, build it low, build it silent, and make it ride on clouds.
I had a '79 El Camino, bought it brand new. Pretty thing, black with carmine trim, red interior. Conquista package, 307 V8, maybe 105 HP at sea level, on a good day. Fucking thing wouldn't pull a sick kid off a tricycle.
Mediocre ride quality, epic numbness in the steering, worst automatic transmission I've ever encountered, schizophrenic accelerator, spongy brake petal, rolls in turns like the Costa Concordia, wind noise deafening on the freeway, seats break your butt after an hour, and the Bose stereo isn't very good.
Cars are filled with expectation. One look at a beautiful exterior, or one glance at quoted MPG figures and you're…
Doug, if you can get me the same data from the PDF in a tabular format (like Excel), I could put together some nice map graphics in ArcMap that will show off his route and speed along the way. (I tried copy-pasting from the PDF, and the format of the place name would require a lot of clean up.)
What a flop.
The officiating has been atrocious. The announcers have said they've gotten five penalties wrong in the first half. Unlike the others, this was reviewable.
I'm not talking styling, and I'm not talking about rear-engine construction, either. I mean, what if you had to…
Quite possibly the world's toughest cabbie was shot twice on Wednesday morning by a robber. The livery driver, two…
BMW gets a lot of crap for building some cars that aren't exactly "ultimate driving machines." But those cars make…
Nascar... the Florida of motorsports.