Too soon.

My herb allergy, my slideshow boycott, and my love for the Chevy Express have perfectly aligned on this post.

Life during covid has led me to study the codes and makes of UPS trucks (package cars). It’s somewhat fascinating on a Jalop level – the older trucks are brown, manual, and (large) wagons. Some are diesel, some are gas, and there’s massive variation between the purpose-built fleets. Plus, badges removed from…

Man, someone speaking my weird, unappealing, niche language. Love to see it. 6v92 RTS please! Buslopnik and Jalopnik crossover is not common.

So are the vans themselves in that case, though! Somewhat incomprehensibly, you can still buy a new Chevy Express/GMC Savana, 6 liter V8 and all. [Semi-Global] Ford sells you a Transit or tells you to walk. Just looking this up, the current Express/Savana dates to 1995. But the Econoline generation that the cutaways…

These might be the award winner for the oldest platform still on sale, especially since the “newest” E-series was a very weak refresh of the gen before that, and so on.

Leaving aside the actual debate, that is such an authentically Russian set of answers it’s hilarious. If somebody tried those out in a skit I’d have said they were too on the nose. Reads like Borat offering political analysis.

As somebody on the left, I have an aneurysm every time I see reputable (the Guardian, the Nation) and vaguely reputable (Jacobin) publications defend Maduro and insist Guaidó’s genuine but unsuccessful attempt at reclaiming the country was some sort of American coup. It’s just blindingly stupid and if any of these…

That would indeed be a fair assessment. I guess my point is that if I, who knows nothing, have an instant name-association with him at this point, somebody who follows it must be absolutely inundated. Or maybe it starts to have the opposite effect, and a die-hard would just tune it out...

If we can keep up the current rate of eighteen articles a month, I’ll take a bet that the fans don’t forget. At this point I know nothing about Kyle Larson besides this episode.

This is one of the worst articles I’ve ever read. The .5% stock drop in sympathy with the general index is supposed to mean something? Musk’s clearly sarcastic quip is supposed to reveal something, anything? I think Musk is a tool, I’m a progressive who likes democracy, I’m always happy to call Tesla on its nonsense,…

One of the worst linguistic innovations of the past ten years has been the rise of the generally meaningless phrase ‘doing the work.’ This article is fine and makes perfect sense to me, but the hairs on my neck still stand up on end every time I read something with this construction. I think it frustrates me because…

Thanks for that, I hadn’t seen that and that was a phenomenal piece. I should bring my R&T subscription back from the dead...part of the problem here, complaining about lousy free automotive writing while failing to subscribe to the real stuff...

Here’s a serious idea for an article: an essay thinking about the necessary contradictions of loving cars and being a person concerned with climate change and the well-being of the world. To take it further: what does it mean to be a person of the left who loves cars, particularly internal combustion cars? What’s the…

85.8 mg is a typo – that would be pretty impressive! I looked up what the Euro 6-D compliance standards are, so that’s where I got that number. I assume the car is compliant, especially since it’s not like there are other Ferraris with lesser emissions to even out the company average.

So this car is genuinely under 85.8 mg CO2/km? For some comparison, an R53 Mini put out 166 g/km, and an E46 BMW put out 218 g/km (using top spec). That is, if correct, absolutely astounding, and gives me faith in the possibility of gas engines for years to come. And proof that manufacturers are absolutely capable of…

“Nikola’s stock is down 15 percent today after falling 11 percent yesterday, meaning it’s pretty likely a lot of investors have already decided who they want to believe.”

I look forward to bidding for one at $100,000 on Bring a Trailer. Nice price!

This is so obviously a joke!

Again, there area few different entities here. There is the NYPD Traffic Division, the NYPD Highway Patrol, there is the DOT (Dept of Transportation) which has no enforcement capability, and there is the NYPD proper. NYPD uniformed officers handling traffic stops might be the source of ire, but it’s worth keeping…