Ah, the old “your loan application was denied” ruse. I had that happen to me once, except the application was never submitted and it was a lie to try to ram me into a loan with a bigger down payment, a much higher rate, and I am sure a bigger finance reserve to the dealer. Their mistake was not realizing that in a…

I was off-roading in Cambodia once and when we got to the top of the hill we saw a warning sign for landmines. It was backwards. Meaning we just drove up the side with mines. We all pooped ourselves slightly. 

The minefield between Mauritania and Morocco / Western Sahara is quite tense the first time you drive through it. Stay on the soft sand - if you think you see a road surface, that’s more likely to have landmines.

To me the biggest issue with EVs isn’t battery recycling after the car is done, it’s what happens to older EVs still on the road, and to the lower income people that rely on older cars. The average age of a car on the road in the US is 12 years old, (meaning many cars are older than that.) How much range will a 10, 12…

Also: DO NOT FUCKING PARK IN DISABLED PARKING SPOTS UNLESS YOU *ARE* DISABLED!

If you’re going to be irrational attached to a car you’re lucky it’s a Toyota. That irrational attachment will save you a ton of money rather than helping you quickly go broke.

I’m smirking a bit at all the comments chastising you for the state of your property.

Not so much a “mechanic’s” story, and not video worthy, but it does involve working in the industry, mechanics, and a call from the FBI... So I’ll just post it here...

It was razorbeamteam who discovered it and posted about it on Oppositelock. I asked him where it was located, and it happened to be at the junkyard that is by far the closest one to my home. I had to go see it.  This is actually how I spent the afternoon of my birthday :)

Warning: This is going to be lengthy. If you don’t care to hear why the US economy is on the edge of an actual depression don’t read this.

That’s the thing, this shouldn’t have haunted her. Nothing wrong with making some porn on the side. She was wrenching for a living, not running for office. The people that would haunt her for this are the ones to blame, not her and her onlyfans account.

Thank you, Michael for (a) making Jalop a thing and (b) giving me something car-related to read every day after work. It’s always been a nice break from responsibilities and die!die!die! national news. God speed, sir.

It means admitting that I owned a red Cavalier, but I’ll post anyway. Parked in front of my house in Philadelphia. Police were chasing a frozen poultry delivery truck the wrong way up the cross street, hit a car in the intersection, hit the car parked behind me, which then slammed into my car hard enough to crush the…

No, it’s standard procedure now to tease a new vehicle before giving all of the details so that they can trickle out that information and jamokes like me have to write about the same car five times. 

Fortunately, I only have one show a year and there is a lot of technical discussions and the like when things calm down at the booth. But regardless, I get home and the family is jealous that I got a vacation and I’m just burnt out.

Max, that's FANTASTIC work. Well done.

My beef with the speed limit thing is that it will less and less tied to emissions as EVs and hybrids take over the motoring pool. The few sections of unrestricted autobahn do not contribute a meaningful amount of pollution to Germany’s carbon impact - they’re just easy to pick on by environmentalists. The real way to…

Toronto used to have a pop up late night event called Ertefa. Street racing, burnouts, shit like that always used to happen at the events. They kept going to different locations but the cops just ended up following them around and shutting it down. Not sure what they are doing now, as I got out of that scene due to…

I wonder if the stiffness of that thermoplastic material changes over time and with temperature, especially under the heavier loads of a big rig? Also, I’m skeptical about the ability to put chains on those when needed in the winter.