I don’t know if this qualifies as a secret, but it’s certainly a unique feature.
Old Toyota pickups have a “CLUTCH START CANCEL” button on the left side of the dash. It bypasses the clutch safety switch in the starter circuit. It’s really helpful if you’re forced to come to a stop on a big, steep uphill. Letting go of…

VW’ engineers dispute this 36 degree threshold. Both of ours ding at 39.

Turbo Saabs ingeniously communicate engine power to the driver by forcibly pulling the steering wheel to one side.

“Random pile” of custom parts from sponsors and an engine that had been professionally tuned on one of their other shows, after the three previous builds of the same car that has probably had a million dollars worth of parts put on and taken off of it over the years failed to run 10s.

*COUGH* DAILY PORSCHE ADS *COUGH. Everybody’s pretty much all the way up somebody’s ass, it seems. It’s okay. Somebody’s gotta paid, or nobody gets read. Still, that Richard Rawlings is absolutely intolerable.

Podcasts. You need podcasts.

Could you imagine picking up an educated (shallow) woman for a first date in this thing?

When you’re coming up on someone on the highway, and they’re too afraid to use cruise control, and instead of being steady with their foot, their speed fluctuates between 65-85, and I’m forced to pass you 6 times because every time I pass you, you speed up top 85 and then pass me and then slow down to 65, or I’m stuck…

Bullshit. People are buying small cars. Just not GM cars. Funny how Subaru and Honda can make cars here and make a profit. GM should have been shuttered. The fact they went back to relying on SUVs and trucks to save them after all this is bullshit. I came from a GM loyal family, no more.

Let me tell you, this is a whole-ass american vehicle. Feels like one. Was designed like one. Is built like one. They designed and make ‘em here.

I understand the financial necessity that this exist, but you know that whole “every gearhead needs to own an Alfa” thing? It just died.

Isn’t Starbucks one of the best case scenarios for lower wage workers? It was my understanding that they have been offering benefits and stuff for years before anyone gave that to service industry workers.

Is everybody at Fisker just drunk 24/7?

3 mustangs and 2000 bystanders? May the odds be ever in your favor!

I didn’t know you could spell Florida “Texas”

One day when (if?) they unveil this thing at an auto show, we’ll do a Jalopnik Video that’s just me and Raph weeping in front of it for a straight hour.