“The majority of Native Texans voted for Beto against Cruz. Transplants on the other hand pushed Cruz over the top.”

Diminishing marginal returns as you put them all together, I’ll give you that...

While I generally find the “all gentrification is evil” narrative pretty limited, to me this is just called: Do Your Research. Figure out what happens in a neighborhood, decide whether or not you’d be happy to live there, and then sign your lease accordingly. Don’t show up and mess with the lives of the people who…

Well, if your timing is right, you stand to make a ton of money from your initial investment through the offering, you can ride it out for a little while, and then take your winnings before the music stops and all the smaller buyers are left holding the bag. I don’t doubt that’s part of the strategy for some of these.…

Again, as was posted on another of these threads, these types of lawsuits are the stock market equivalent of ambulance-chasing and occur constantly. Any time you see major volatility among a small-cap company you get a lawsuit like this filed. I could see this company being a sham or a failure or whatever, but this by…

I’ve been cheating with a weak parking brake for years and can’t be bothered to fix it. I just park in gear and hold my breath on hills. Recently I went to a dealer for a recall repair and the unsuspecting tech made me the mistake of relying on the parking brake for the ramp into their shop, he immediately stalled and…

I’m not sure it counts as a BMW unless you have an issue with the oil filter housing gasket / oil pan gasket. Bonus points if you list for sale with these issues and advertise the job based on the cost of the parts and not the the length of the labor. “Cheap fix.” 

On the bright side, you have a V10 Rs6. 

Well, that’s officially a pain in the ass.

“your problematic fave is (partially) back (maybe has been here for a while?), as charming and repulsive as ever.”

Yeah, that I totally agree with. Everybody has a Rangie or an X5. LA is a car city where people actually pay attention to status symbols, unusual cars, etc., much moreso than NY. 

In my heart of hearts I would like this to be true, and I mostly agree with you, but I have to note that the really rich people who live in those buildings almost exclusively garage their cars. What you see on the street (say, the cars along Park Avenue right in front of fancy buildings) tend to belong to supers,…

“Elective disregard for science” is a very good way of putting it.

I feel almost nothing reading articles that complain about being bored by incredibly impressive feats of mechanical and aesthetic engineering that would make any actual car enthusiast weak in the knees to see in person. Why do we have to affect such a tone of disdain? Paganis, point blank, are incredible. I had a…

Ooh, a link to the famously racist NY Scanner account run by the Hasidim! Could we have sourced this from, you know, anywhere else?

Why would you want to fire either of these guys? 

Interesting article. Sort of a relevant reminder that, beyond the twelve articles we seem to get each week about Lordstown and other Jalopnik-non-favored-companies, real people tend to do better when the companies in their hometowns do better. And generally, the success of homegrown companies is good for the people…

This smells of BMW. And your handle implies it. No? 

I mean, personally, I have never exaggerated ever in my life, ever. I am the least exaggerating person who has ever lived.

Uber has designed, patented, and profited from a system that gives it employees zero rights whatsoever. They aren’t even employees, per Prop 22, they are ‘independent contractors’...who just happen to work 5-7 days a week for Uber, and were encouraged by Uber to invest heavily into a car, maintenance, and fuel costs…