I’m assuming the freelance budget is $0 at this point, which is why we’re not seeing more contributors brought in.

To be fair bars may pay more than most editorial jobs, sadly.

The masks for CNN may be a corporate safety mandate to be allowed to shoot. Keep in mind, there’s at minimum a producer and a camera guy there, all in close-ish proximity. I know where I work, our video teams have a LONG safety doc from legal on the procedures that must take place in order for a shoot to happen. But…

Wait, are all European market American vehicles equipped with switches in English? Shouldn’t the “PUSH” label on the sunglasses holder say “Spingere”? Like, did Italians just accept the English all over the car? I can’t imagine that flying in say, an American market BMW. As charming as that’d be.

My wife and I have been having this discussion. We’re in California, and our parents are in Minneapolis and New York respectively. We can’t in good conscience see one set and not the other. Do we do the drive (I have it broken up with 2 nights in hotels to MSP, and 1 night to NY) and basically wear tyvek suits when we…

What’s interesting is that we’re using the same terminology and cat-mouse tactics from the early iPhone jailbreak scene. Cars really are just big phones now...

A neighbor I don’t particularly care for has left their newish Cherokee street parked outside our building in San Francisco since the beginning of the pandemic (assuming they took the kids to stay with grandparents somewhere with space). The city isn’t ticketing for alternate side, so it’s been miraculously…

I rode my bike over the bridge last weekend and it was as bad as described.

I don’t think there’s one person on the Jalop editorial team that’s over the age of 40... And that just might be torch.

I believe most of these are registered/flagged in other countries with like zero taxes, so likely our government only has so much pull in making them do jack.

I know budgets are... a thing, but at what point does it make more sense to just send Raph out there to shoot as you go and then right it up later? Gives you time to work?

3rd Gear: BMW/Toyota, BMW/MB, Infiti/MB; are we just heading in the direction that Sergio wanted to go? Is this like when you want to kick out your singer so you just break up and start a “new band” with a different singer and the same band?

Wait, are you back!?

I think about this video every time one of these instances occur. It’s hard to take anything seriously in this frame of mind.

What’s the back seat like in these guys? Do They Baby®?

This is maybe a dumb question, but are the robots shifting, or are these auto transmissions? I know that engine braking/jake brakes do a lot of slowing down trucks on declines. Is that still possible?

I can’t imagine you haven’t come across AvE’s channel, but if you’ve not, you should check it out. He basically tears into stuff with a level of detail you would find interesting as an engineer.

So... did PG lean back and sigh with relief/schadenfreude?

My Newly Retired Dad is similarly super busy and has a lot to do. It’s fascinating really.

Wait, I thought you were towing the Wilys out there. Did I miss something?