I know guys like that, and yes, you’re 100% right.

Kinda makes me rethink the whole Katy Perry vs. Taylor Swift beef. I always assumed Swift was the Mean Girl in that one.

At this point eBay Motors is best as a marketing tool. Sellers can post their car there with intentionally bizarre prices and buyers can call them directly.

A gender-segregated racing series is hella stupid. But looking at this list, there is a fascinating diversity in the prior racing that these drivers have done. It reminds me of the old IROC series, a battle royal of FIA F3 racers vs. NASCAR vs. karts vs. oddball stuff like Lamborghini Super Trofeo.

This article is awesome and inspiring. Tip of the hat to you, sir!

Look up the De Haviland Comet. In aircraft, pressure and thermal cycling cause expansion/contraction that accelerates metal fatigue. It’s an issue for cars, too, but car bodies don’t explosively decompress when they fail.

I love the way it looks. I think it’s a nice Italianate update of the original Mazda GLC.

W215, I mean. Morning dyslexia.

True, but 800 horsepower isn’t going to be cheap.

It *is* eye-searingly ugly. Hennessey’s website says the HPE800 kit by itself it $55k. So, I guess at this price you get the rest of the car for free.

Yeah, they’ve completely lost touch with their “evangelist” customers and are simply milking the brand image. The X5 is pretty much literally the 1977 Lincoln Town Car or Buick LeSabre in terms of what it means for their respective makers. I don’t know when this catches up with BMW in a big way - it took 20 years of…

This is the correct take.

This deserves many more stars.

Ah, you are correct. For some reason my memory was that the MSRP was $95k with the option packages. I also recall they wanted $950/month for a lease.

I hear there are some empty desks in Jalopnik’s HQ in Brooklyn.

This clip from The Wire should literally be in the business-school case study of Cadillac’s downfall.

Kia/Hyundai *still* hasn’t developed the reputation that their cars deserve. At this point the JD Powers durability surveys say they’re *better* than Honda and roughly equivalent to Toyota. With a far longer warranty their total cost of ownership is considerably lower. I recommend Kias to friends All. The. Time. And…

As one of a couple thousand people who ever drove an ELR, I will say that it was pretty darn good. It was not, however, $90k worth of good, which is what they tried to charge for it.

I think GM has made some really good stuff in the last 5-10 years. Especially Cadillac sedans. But I gotta admit that our 2012 Yukon with 110k miles has far, far more stuff go wrong with it than my 2002 Mercedes with 225k miles. And that Yukon is a Denali that stickered for about $73k, well into Mercedes pricing…

Even if you know the 0-60 time on paper, seeing something that large go 0-60 that fast is viscerally surprising. Same with launches of actual rockets. You know it’s big and loud, but few people are prepared for the actual reality of the experience.