Hey Mercedes, just wanted to mention that I like most everything you’re doing here on Jalopnik, including this tool stuff, and you’ve been a great addition to the staff. I’ve already bought a couple of things you mentioned too. I hope they’re paying you enough to keep you around. Keep up the good work!

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The peeling paint on this 4runner is a more interesting topic than you might think. Manufacturers were looking for a better paint than the lacquer based paints they’d been using that dulled quickly and required a lot of routine maintenance. At the same time, new environmental regulations were put into place to…

Ask an engineer what time it is and they tell you how to build a watch.

Don’t worry, Chevy is working on it.

With the current pickup styling trend, I’m surprised no manufacturer has eliminated the windshield yet. They could just raise the hood up to the roof line, put in a front facing camera and a screen for the driver to watch the road ahead. It would free up lots of space for an even bigger grill.

Here’s a tip: If you don’t know about a subject, educate yourself before writing a blog post about it. Cherry picking one race from 4 years ago to make your point doesn’t exactly make your point. Look at the last 10 years and the average non-finishing car count is about 6 with about half that due to contact. Texas is…

There is no way EA doesn’t fuck this whole thing up. Here’s hoping F1 takes the Disney approach and tells EA where to shove it when they pull that shit they always do.

Typo. It comes with 35s or 37s.

How many marketing meetings did they have considering giving it 666 hp?

If it’s anything like the aftermarket tune on my Golf R, it also makes machine gun noises and shoots flames out the exhaust, which is way more important than something silly like “keeping boost pressure”.

Yeah but the Tacoma has always been... whats the word... good.

Yes, Love the front.. the rest.. ehh not so much. may as well get the 90's rover, the other 3/4 of it look a lot better. 

For me, the best part of WTR taking the overall win was hearing Wayne Taylor say “This is fucking awesome!” live on network TV. :)

Keep the name for the memories.

I remember seeing a then-new Lada Samara at a car show and speculating out loud about its reliability. My friend (who later bought a use Audi A4 - which should tell you everything about this judgement when it comes to reliability) agreed. But then he pointed out that for the price of a brand new Samara you could…

I have ridden on the track at 150mph. Lots of vibration and wind and bad lighting. That picture was taken in the studio. However I have zero doubt a Hayabusa or its successor could do that with a mile of open road, just pin it and click it up thru the gears

Counterpoint - have you ever really seen a Happy Lada driver?

Okay so...

I know! It even has one of those “angry” grilles. I didn’t even know those were an aftermarket option for a Lada of all things.