He’s hired to be a hot/shit-take expert, among others who actively distain cars/automotive and can’t get their facts straight. I really disagree with the direction of how this site is heading, but I’m still here so I guess I’m the fucking idiot

The right thing to do, obviously, is re-nationalize GM. All right, I don’t know how that would help in this case in particular, I just feel like it would.

It’s that last part that’s the most fascinating: the Hellcat’s days are numbered, not because consumers don’t want them, but it’ll come down to those engines being regulated out of existence.

Ah yes, the crusade against cool cars for the sake of a marginal environmental change.  

I don’t have any photos but my favorite car was my first. It was a 2002 Dodge Intrepid ES. The company my dad worked for was selling it for $1200 back in 2008 with 140,000 on the odo and a bad water pump.

As someone with 5 kids and two dogs I’ll yell fuck you from the window of my wife’s Yukon XL while we pass you towing our boat

The Silverado GMT800 mid-cycle refresh for one. 

High fives! Another tattoo-less Gen Xer here. I am not anti-tattoos because I have friends who make their living as tattoo artists, but I remember that tattoos were for people who wanted to be rebellious, but everyone having them seems to moot that point.

(Also, I’m really grateful I was too broke to get a 4"…

Super unpopular opinion, I know (gen X’r here - literally everyone I know has tattoos), but as a tattoo UNenthusiast I kinda hope this catches on haha.

Ford sells over a million trucks per year. It is blatantly obvious that they’re building trucks people want to buy. What you want will never happen for the price you demand with today’s safety regulations. Ever.

Speaking as a more liberal leaning mind, it drives me up the wall when I see calls for wind and solar.

Why is it Erik always feels the need to throw political commentary in his articles? One would think his editors would remind him that Jalopnik  is about cars, not politics. By throwing in political comments Erik diminishes readers perception of his professionalism.

The minivan.

How about this deal, we do things with the vaccine that best prevent the spread, like vaccinating people who see a bunch of people in a small box everyday.

Cool, uber sucks, we know.

Yeah, the comments in here are pretty harsh. People act like driving a car hard will immediately make the engine explode. You can treat cars pretty bad and they’ll still be serviceable. You wouldn’t believe the beaters you see that have been flogged for 200k+ miles, blow blue smoke, but still keep chugging.  I can…

I will ask this question again, why is this non-car person writing on a car focused website?

I can’t think of a maintenance item that’s more basic.

It has been a sad, slow decline here.

Common maintenance? Cool. Probably something a car blogger should know.

5th: So what you’re saying is that GM couldn’t possibly be thinking about the tens of thousands of office workers who haven’t been back to their desks since March, or even the office workers who do still have to go in every day to a possibly unsafe work environment?