He’s also facing the wrong way.

When reached for comment, the buyer said: “Damn, these things are fast!”

The entire trend of videos that are “fuck with your pet by doing X” needs to die. Some of the things are harmless but all of them encourage the attitude that pets are entertainment instead of responsibility.

I too feel on fire when I have too much Cayenne

“Some people like to see an interesting world deeply realised”

The crappy experience is from Kia dealerships who still act like its the 90s, where the most reliable new sedan/coupe a middle class family buys is a Honda, but if they don’t have the credit for it they buy a Hyundai, and if they can’t swing that, then they get a Kia. Bottom of the barrel buyers who have no…

The manufacturers like to control who can be their franchisee, and they have the opportunity to sub in a buyer for the same terms if they don’t like the buyer.

Looking at the facility, its likely he’s selling so he doesn’t have to spend the money to upgrade the facility.  Kia is hot right now.  He’ll get more for the franchise now than in 2 years when things are normal.  And he gets out of spending money on the facility on top of it.  Best payout option. 

Fuck this stupid shit. The problem isn’t big rail yards. That’s actually a benefit of efficiency. Railyards let you just shift things from car to car and keep moving.

The problem is we have to offload things from trains to trucks so the trucks can take that shit on surface roads to warehouses, before being sorted and…

I’d suggest checking with your insurance company. We have USAA and they noted we aren’t covered because Turo is not officially a car rental company. Same reason credit card coverage doesn’t apply. I like the idea of Turo but with the insurance, most of the time it’s the same price as a typical rental.

If there were rail lines from the existing ports to other freight distribution hubs, one would think they would be operating short trains to shuttle containers back and forth now. Right?

This is just some Hyperloop-style grift bullshit.

I think a lot of people get in to it after buying a new car, thinking they’ll make up the car payment + some profit, and then sell it in a couple years. Obviously being in good condition is key to this strategy.

I bet the vandalizing was him pissing at/ on the fruit stand 

It’s not just his sudden adherence to the old Jedi dogma that turned his father to the dark side and would have prevented him from saving his friends in The Empire Strikes Back.

I’ll shit on Bezos all damn day. I won’t shit on the boat.

I think the author might be going for a sarcastic tone but this is written really poorly. It reads as just seething jealously.

The new recruits here lately have been confusing stunning engineering with the rich people who own them, and that their job should be to cover the vehicle first. Almost everyone who reads Jalopnik already thinks Bezos is a scumbag, piling on is just annoying. Spanfeller’s plan for G/O seems to be to turn it into a…

I’ve had 5 different cars with manuals as my dailies, and I’ve driven others.  I’ve never encountered one that could not get started as described.  In point of fact, even if I get into a car I’m unfamiliar with, that’s how I start it off the first couple times so I can get a feel of where the clutch picks up. 

I’ve used this technique in every vehicle I’ve ever touched with a clutch: motorcycle, a 1942 farmall tractor, hauling a bushog, a lawnmower (again, idling), a 1992 acura vigor, a 1993 VW Scirocco, 1996 Honda Civic, 1996 Hyundai Elantra (talk about underpowered) 1996 VW passat, 2003 Acura TL, 2003 Hyundai Tiburon (my…