Hey Elizabeth, love your writing and that it has a home here on jalopnik.com. The just the facts coverage of current racers, delightful histories like this one, and the cultural pieces (tramp stamp), are all fantastic. Kind of a drag that it seems noteworthy, but very much appreciated.

First of all... Shirley Muldowney would like a word.

This is in regard to the second writer owing $10k on the car: I am an attorney in NYC and this advice only applies in NY:

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2014 Ford Explorer

The highest highway throughput is at 55mph. Higher speeds come at the expense of traffic volumes.
Higher speed differentials between the slowest traffic and the fastest is more dangerous.  Unless you plan on getting rid of big-rigs, lower speeds are safer, as they mean that traffic flows more freely.

At least it isn’t one of the German brands...

Clumps are from drivers going different speeds; a condition that doesn’t happen if they had a speed they could agree on, maybe with a sign at the roadside to limit guessing.

Punching it to “50 or so” and potentially endangering kids / etc going into the street is a pretty shitty thing to do.

This is just plan stupid. Have the Scotts never heard of speed bumps? They come in all shapes and sizes and are extremely effective:

This, I think, is exactly spot on.

dog penis?? WTF i can’t even in the jalopnik comments today. you people will hate on ANYTHING! 

What if she’s only willing because it could have negative/potentially career ending consequences if she doesn’t?

You better believe a potential video of her being a ‘prude bitch refusing to sign a dudes back’ was somewhere in the back of her mind.

People trying to garner the well wishes of the public are forced on a…

I think it’s great. Looks better than is what’s sitting in most of our driveways, anyway.

I was pretty “meh” on the first couple of pics; the headlights are just silly bignormous, but then I got to the BRG one....wow that looks really good!

People can say what they want of course. But I agree with you Jason, I need one.

Sure, maybe Liz’ll just post those literal millions of stories about men and their plight of fighting for their right to vote and how they struggled to be taken seriously when competing against the thousands of women that comprised all of motorsport.

I was about 10 years old, and playing Hot Wheels on the porch of our suburban South Jersey home, when I saw a UFO glide down the street.

Back when I had first started college, I came across this Subaru 360 sitting behind a body shop in rural Connecticut. It was love at first sight. The car was in several shades of primer because they had used it for practice, or something, but it was complete. I knew about microcars, but this was the first one I had…

Yeah.. A lot of this is at the feet of employees too. My mom’s company is a major supplier to all three and they have to keep a fleet of cars for each customer now. Turns out it’s cheaper than having to pay for employee cars getting trashed at Big 3 lots. Keying, dumping trash on and worse isn’t uncommon unfortunately.