Agreed. Cabs aren't perfect, but the way Uber skimps on things makes the need for regulation obvious. I live in the far reaches of San Francisco, it might take me 30 minutes to get a cab to come to my house. Now, with Uber and Lyft around, I get ignored by multiple service providers, haha.

Exactly. And pretend you're the Little Guy going against those huge Taxi Cab companies, rather than a handful of venture capitalists going after thousands of taxi cab medallion owners/drivers!
(I don't know about NYC, but in SF cabs operate on the medallion system.)

Underrated, unappreciated. A great car, even if the world doesn't want to admit it.

Yeah, everything about the front half of the car is beautiful. There was a really nice black one on craigslist about a year ago, about an hour outside San Francisco. Super low price. It was either a screaming deal or a scammy robbery set up. I sided with fear. Plus, these cars are too big for my purposes/situation,…

In my Craigslist meanderings, I always end up looking for the second gen Plymouth Satellites. Great looking cars. I like the Dodge Demon too, but some other brilliant tastemaker has already posted it.

My stars, you didn't plug your twitter feed in this piece. I am impressed!

1. Glad to see this happening.

The Regal with standard transmission is a fun car to drive. Fast, not really, but fun.

And is he on Twitter? He never mentions whether he is or not within the first thirty words of his posts.

If the purpose was to teach, then I'd agree with you, but the purpose was to entertain and try to humbly get readers to think that they too can get their hands dirty. Jalopnik is not a technical blog, its more People Magazine than Chilton's repair manual.

I agree with you on some points. Jalopnik tends to try to create wacky writer personas, and that can come off insincere. I am old and Boring enough that I can appreciate Autoblog's dryness.

Geez, the guy admits he doesn't know everything about cars, and writes up a basic piece on what he learned, and half the internet goes bitchmode. Most of us still don't know much about cars, and ALL of us knew nothing at one time or another, so turn down the righteous smarmy knowitall meter for a bit.

(The only thing…

German unions treat their employees great. BMW treats their German employees very well. The X5 is built in South Carolina.

If it's not built with Union labor, keep it out of Detroit.

I hear ya, but I don't commute, and I don't drive the highway enough to make a difference. In the city, when you're accelerating from 5-30 over and over again, the Mustang is a pretty boring car to drive. That's what I have to remember, the driving experience, not the numbers or the looks. It's too powerful. But yeah,…

Ugh, I see these numbers and I want another Mustang.
But, I have to remember a few things (mantra I repeat to myself)
1. It's not much smaller than the old car
2. Power is fun
3. Power you can't use daily is no fun
4. Fiesta ST isn't really THAT ugly

(Yes, I live in a city, or I would not give a crap about the size,…

True, I used to bring in the Ann Arbor angle too, forgot about that. There's a large amount of New Yorkers attending UofM as well, at least there was when I was there. NYC friends always thought of Ann Arbor as the quaint college town, while I thought of it as a hip, urban center. I was young, I didn't know any better!

I've lived in Redford, Plymouth, Westland, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, in that order. I now live in San Francisco. I identify as from Plymouth, as that is where I was raised ages 8-18. But, there are like 75 towns named Plymouth in the US, so I tell people I'm from Metro Detroit. If I'm feeling descriptive, I'll say I'm…

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They are probably techies, lol.