Seems you are implying that Texas should take away freedoms only in order of priority?

First they came for the Kit Cars, but I did not speak up,
Then they came for the sand rails, and I remained silent,
Then, one by one they came for the Stancebros, and the brotrucks, then the bitchbaskets and David Tracy, but still I did not object.

Then one day, they came for my 1967 Camaro project that I swear one day I…

The romanticized, Land of the Free, Texas hasn’t existed for some time. Think back to the whole Tesla bull crap that went down, I’m sure they were working against the general public’s freedom of choice even before that. They are systematically taking away everything but the guns.

You know that law in Michigan where it’s illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your back pocket? Or how about the law in England where everybody is legally required to own a longbow? Or my favourite, no whaling on Sundays in the state of Ohio. There’s stupid laws everywhere. Just because somebody says “It’s the law”…

Show me on the doll where the sand rail touched you.

Serious question - now that Jalopnik is breaking into TV and all, why is there no budget allocated for you to buy insane things like this once every quarter or so, and test drive/destroy them under their own power for the sake of a humorous review?

It’s a what the tuk-tuk.

Seems like a self-correcting problem. If these uncertified inspections actually cause problems the company is going to have more money spent on recalls and warranty work.

I think everyone is missing the obvious question here. If Nissan hasn’t been inspecting their cars with certified inspectors for 40 years and no one noticed. Are certified inspectors really needed?

Even though Nissan broke the rules and used non-certified inspectors, it’s entirely possible the cars were inspected correctly. I’m technically not a certified mechanic but I can successfully perform maintenance in my garage.

i work for a company without a union. my benefits here are 10x better than with my union gig, 18 pto days from day one vs 10 availible after your first year, a 6% 401k match instead of 3%, health benefits with a nationwide network instead of a plan paid exclusively by the company who can dictate which doctors you see.…

Unions at one point were critical to the American worker. Now we have Federal oversight of labor and safety laws. Combine that with Unions making themselves uncompetitive and it’s a hard case to make for many auto manufactures and employees. Look at how the majority of Nissan workers voted.

I wonder what they were thinking trying to manufacture cars in CA.

And a mahogany tongue.

I saw the picture and got excited that Honda was coming out with a new Motocompo:

Disaster capitalism is when you get the victim to sign a shit contract because they have few resources to turn to and no time to spare. Did Tesla make Puerto Rico sign a big juicy contract? If not, this is not disaster capitalism, unless you want to try to spend all your efforts being critical of the PR potential at…

Does Tesla and Musk want to use this as an example to further their long term plans for solar? Of course! But they could have done that without donating this system to PR - and let it be mentioned that Tesla engineers were in PR helping out without anyone knowing until a reporter mentioned it and it became a Twitter…

Autocross? Drag racing? Pikes Peak? These are all questions I would love to see answered with “deuce and a half”.

the thing about ‘prime years’ and gymnastics though, is that its kind of bullshit. before they raised the age to 16 everyone thought the prime was 14-16. now they’ve raised it and everyone accepts the prime is 16-18. if you raise the age to 18, i bet you would see a lot more 22 year olds winning (which we will…