Eh, that’s a bit overblown. Don’t buy the first model year of an entirely new platform or entirely new drivetrain. And don’t buy the first year of a new Sync system. Neither of these have a new drivetrain. Bronco is modified Ranger platform, not sure what the baby Bronco is built off of. There’s not going to be any…

Did you also go see Twilight in the theater just so you could stand up in the middle of it and announce your disapproval? “This is not for me, therefore it is bad and should not exist” is an attitude one should try to outgrow. It’s an easy trap to fall into because with things like Twilight it is true, leading one to…

Lots of comments screaming ‘track rat’ on this car, but really they don’t know what they’re getting into.

It’s like how you go to your favorite restaurant and always order the same thing - not because they don’t have other great dishes, but because the risk of something not being as good as your favorite thing is a risk many don’t want to take.

The whole thing is pathetic. We have to worry about offending *checks notes* crackheads now? What staggers me is that it used to actually be a fairly progressive notion that everybody is better than their worst action; i.e., we can all accept that smoking crack is not a good thing, but the people who do it are not…

The Type R feels like it is on another level in regards to chassis/suspension tuning when compared to it’s contemporaries like the STI or Focus RS.

Agreed. There are a ton of people who do it full time. There are a ton of people who do it as a sporadic side gig, part time job, or seasonal work, as the original sales pitch suggested. I certainly would not have considered myself an employee when I was doing it Friday and Saturday nights only for summer 2017 and…

Most taxi drivers are contractors and yet somehow Jalopnik never had issue with that either. 

It’s not just going to be the lower rated drivers who get left out of the cold. If you worked for Uber/Lyft for under 40 hours/week (ie to get some spare cash), you probably won’t get benefits as you’ll be classified as part-time (someone with more legal knowledge than I, please educate me). If you work 40+ hours for…

This ruling is based purely on emotion. Drivers really don’t meet the standard of being employees. They aren’t scheduled like employees, they aren’t accountable like employees, and they aren’t paid like employees. The design of rideshare platforms and the appeal to a large number of drivers is to let you make extra…

Today, California ruled that Uber and Lyft must stop pretending that their drivers are independent contractors and start treating them for what they are: employees.

Counterpoint: We beat people’s rates at their local banks all the time and that still pays the dealership, while also being a better deal for the customer. Playing games does not serve you. Just tell us what you want. If we can’t do it, don’t buy the car. No one will be offended. 

I think we’re splitting hairs here.  I mean, you’re not wrong, you have to be attentive behind the wheel to watch for dummies.  But there are certain things that can’t be accounted for immediately and if that happens and someone plows into you, 60's engineering may put one into the hospital.. at best.

You’d think that, you really would. But it ignores the thousands of accidents that happen each year from circumstances out of the control of the driver, or their ability to react. Like the time I was riding in my friends car around 11:30 at night a few years ago, and a Detroit Police commander, driving drunk, upwards…

Wrong. You are making your variable (the driver) as safe as possible. What about when you stop at a redlight and someone comes barreling behind the person behind you. You cant see the Dodge Ram 3500 going 55mph behind the Kia Sorento thats directly behind you. The Ram is going to shove the Sorento into your rear…

You know people can run red lights long after they are red, right? Like, the 10th car in line can get T-boned if someone runs the red light 10 seconds after it turned. Do you stop at every intersection regardless of how long the light’s been green to be sure it’s safe to proceed? You must be a joy to drive behind.

All the preparedness in the world wont save you from an inattentive teen running a red light and they T-bone that thin metal Ford called a door back in the 60s.

Just saying, it’s all relative. “A net worth of $93,170 U.S. is enough to make you richer than 90 percent of people around the world.”

‘Ur-’ denotes historical origins, earliness, a primitive template above all.
I think you and the article wants something more like: ultimate, apex, quintessential, or apotheosis.

“More and more, these people with a big supercar collection and a classic car collection, they were turning to their old 911 Porsches at the weekend to have a bit of fun. The supercars were getting wider and bigger, difficult to see out of, and they all had these switch gearchanges, and they just weren’t engaging…