If only the headline ended with “based on firsthand experience” and wasn’t intentionally clickbaity.

Maverick.

The Ford Lightning: Its the first full-sized electric truck. It would give me more performance than my gas truck has to offer, while enjoying the same $/mi as a ~50mpg car. It would be higher if my electricity wasn’t so expensive. It has the added benefit of being able to power my house in an outage. I have a…

It wasn’t about vaccine mandates. It was organized by white supremacists trying to overthrow a legitimately elected government.

These fuckin morons won the war, yet they still feel so goddamn aggrieved (For what, I don’t know. Being stupid fucking childish morons, I guess) they have to protest. Nothing in this country is shutdown. Most mandates, if anything, are for wearing a goddamn mask. A handful of employers require shots, and boo-fuckin…

You would think, but WVA has a yearly state inspection & sticker. Therefore all the cars in Southern Ohio and Eastern Kentucky look like that.

West Virginia is such a forward thinking state.

Can pretty much guarantee that the versions with AWD, if they ever exist, will not get the choose-your-own-adventure transmission. 

I mean...it is a Hummer.  If it wasn’t an opulent pile of trash, it wouldn’t be deserving of the Hummer name. 

The time traveler should have said “I hope you love the Avalanche”.

I hate everything about this rig. It’s too big and heavy on and off road, while also being incredibly inefficient and wasteful. Feels just like 2002 all over again.

Man 5 articles in like 2 hours. You guys are REALLY pushing the David/Jason story down eh?

telling your readers to grow up is decidedly immature. perhaps you should consider your own advice because taken as it is written - it is condescending and insulting. 

Best of luck Rory.  I stopped reading a while ago.  I missed these guys, but the invasive ad experience, horrible kinja experience, and what ownership did to Deadspin was my exit point.  I am sure your content is good.  I just wish it was available somewhere else.

It’s always sad to see the end of an era. Sure, there will be others with rattling deathtraps they keep running on hope. And somebody else can write about taillights. But we won’t have these two. We won’t have taillight enthusiast bathhouses. We won’t have David Tracy’s fleet of rust here, no matter what piles of…

this smug ass response is like the icing on the cake for me leaving. i was already out the door anyway, but i kept coming back for torch and tracy. but this attitude right here seems to be taking over the culture of the writers at jalopnik and i have to think it’s souring the taste of many who might still read this…

You are right about one thing, sometimes it is time to go and pursue your dreams somewhere else. It looks like they are finally going off to form a new site that is more in line with how jalopnik started in the old days, before it became a cesspool of clickbait and ads.

Ah yes, a “site for us” that is consistently broken, and many content writers who just appear lazy and/or don’t give a shit. 

“Millions of people read this site”

Best of luck in your future endeavors, its been a pleasure reading your work here. Especially the mad ravings of Torch.