We have to get this weight thing under control one day. Obviously the next four years are a wash for anything relating to progress, but we cannot go on this way with 4.5 ton consumer vehicles as a norm. The level of road wear is now akin to small trucks, they obliterate any vehicle they hit, vaporize any person they…

Those rims are from the pre-facelift car, which makes me think somebody did a full LP560 swap with new bumper, headlights, and hood. But hard to tell.

Not that I don’t agree with you, but just fwiw, I think in that video he says ‘700,000 followers,’ not ‘700,000 dollars.’ I think you need need 7-figure follower counts to make that kind of money. But the ‘car paying for itself,’ which he also said – that I believe. I would bet he’s cleared $60k-100k off of this stuff.

I still read his name with that in there.

Yeah I can’t even conceive how this could be framed as a Boeing problem. They don’t even make the tires!

On the one hand, I’m sure this is generally true. But on the other hand, BMW has 1) every incentive to tell you to BUY ONE NOW, for however many years, and 2) every incentive to follow the data that says a full 50% of the market base for some of these enthusiast offerings want a standard. Are they really going to turn…

Police chases are a massive risk to the public, a big waste of resources, and frequently a needless escalation of minor crimes. I’m just about the last person to defend cops being needlessly brutal in these types of situations. But I really resent the framing that suggests *ANYBODY ALIVE* thinks that racing away from…

Came here to ask the same question. Feels like on a car-focused website we can definitely go into the nitty-gritty details!

I was having lunch with somebody the other day and he described a friend of ours, meaning to say “quintessential Californian,” as the “penultimate Californian.” I thought, who’s the final one?

“There’s a reason it’s against the law for other drivers”

Lol, the number of Jalop evolutions on street racing over the years make my head spin. First it was: all speed is good, the guy who raced Manhattan is cool, etc. Then it was: street racing is terrible, speeding is dangerous, slow down. Now it’s: street racing is bad, unless it’s an act of protest (?), then it’s good.

Fascinating to watch a master at work.

Not really sure how you can coherently take “end police chases” as a policy position (a reasonable one, by the way), recognize that a huge number of cars involved in illicit activity in NYC have fake paper plates, and then also reject any means of tracking these vehicles as government overreach.

In what world is that only a summons? Amazing how regularly we undercharge reckless driving. That guy shouldn’t be allowed to hold a CDL ever again.

This is totally meaningless for any car with vague collector value. I put my 2001 330i on there, just for shits and giggles, and Carvana’s offer was $300. Market on my car is somewhere between $5k and $8k, if I were to estimate based off of similar sales at 120k miles, standard trans, rarer blue paint, etc. 

Is ‘CP’ a crude joke? Yes. Does it reveal any values or it impugn any particular group of people? No. America’s drug sentencing laws are heinously unfair, themselves the legacy of centuries of systemic racism, but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I have a hard time identifying any clear sociological values in the CP…

“CP” is just being a Jalop-nostalgist. Whatever sociological point you’re trying to make is nonsense. It was a kneejerk solution to an imaginary problem. Everybody, across all classes, creeds, and colors, thinks crack pipes are bad for decision-making. Not sure who exactly you think you’re standing up for.

Subwoofer indicates misplaced mechanical priorities. CP despite absolutely loving these cars.

The fourth paragraph repeats twice, but interesting stuff. I always think of those white-on-black and white-on-darker-greeen CA signs as the last pieces of non-standardized highway signage.

Now this is a Jalopnik project worth following...