Base GTI for $33K all but confirmed.

Hold on one second- that is the one part on a VAG that never fails!

VAG’s check engine light

I think it looks really nice, but let’s be honest - it wouldn’t sell in numbers unless they gave it the Crosstrek treatment - lifted it and gave it some crossover cladding.

Another vehicle we think is awesome because we can’t get it in the US.

Someone’s going to have to explain to me Jalopnik’s stance on when dodging emissions laws is cheeky/sneaky/subversive vs. THE WORST THING EVER.

Part of the issue there is that cheap money is used to rationalize spending more.

#2 - I mean, don’t get into fights. It’s dumb and it gets you banned and maybe hurt. But as a racetrack marshal, I know that fights can be broken up swiftly by grabbing the chin bar and yanking downwards. Control the head and you control the body. Also there’s no risk of getting bitten through a helmet.

I am finding more and more that Jalopnik and its commentators are not better than this. Its Gawker with (sometimes) cars

On the “Fireworks vs IEDs” discussion— There is some arbitrary point at which a device transitions from “Firework” to “bomb”, even if its builder intends it to be used for entertainment rather than destruction. Seeing as these devices were homemade, “Improvised Explosive Device” seems like a reasonable descriptor.

I’m no fan of the police but this is a dumb take, even after the correction for the very large, obvious, and premise-changing error which was inserted way down at the bottom of the article well after a significant conversation predicated by said error had already occurred.

Yawn. If you can’t attack the facts, just throw names around.

Plus, my question is - are this many people truly in dire need for a car? It’s pretty wild what the car market is doing right now - I would imagine most people have a car of some sort they are replacing...friggin stick with it for as long as possible until this madness calms down (and maybe that’s good advice in…

I’ve driven up and down the 110 (near the neighborhood where this went down) a bunch this last week or so and I am constantly seeing illegal fireworks being set off. Not Roman candles or bottle rockets - but the real deal shit that a city will set off during holidays festivities. It’s so stupid for a number of…

Reads to me like the containment vessel failed.

That’s a stupid reply.

There is almost as much stupid in this comment thread as in the headline.

3rd Gear: I work at a Hyundai dealer, and I overheard some talk that our incoming inventory hasn’t been affected too much, but our on-the-lot new inventory is low because we’re getting so many buyers coming from the Honda, Chevy, etc. dealers that don’t have inventory.

Because, as usual on this site, the headline is misleading. The police detonated the improvised explosive devices inside the disposal vehicles. These could have been very unstable, so transporting them would be less safe. In addition, depending on the type of explosive or blasting agent used, water would not make them…

I love how nobody actually thinks about how large 5000lb of fireworks is, and immediately skews towards “all those fireworks in that truck”.

They wouldn’t fit. It’s the “oh, and we found some homemade explosives” that went off and destroyed the container, because... y’know.... they actually fit in it.