And people bitched up and down about how cars were ruined forever because of CAFE and Emissions and safety nannies... but it turns out that now cars are literally better in every possible metric.

Yeah; this is top Jalopnik right here. The response to the RIP King below is also icing on Jalopcake.

I was mostly joking but a tiny kernel of truth was in my mind. Maybe it really was a thing. If I actually knew I would be bound not to say.

I’m going to choose this thread to laugh and point as Jason hitchhikes by wiring diehards to esoteric vehicular lighting in a poor attempt to signal his trustworthyness.

Yeah mostly friends keep my connection strong to KC. I’ve kind of grown estranged from paRents lately. It’s superficial in nature and somewhat sad.

That said, one of my inlaws is from VT. It was very pretty the one time I visited.

*insert napolean dynamite YES gif*

AWwwwwww SHiat! That is so freak’n nice. Dang! What a great pair of vehicles you have. Now I’m really jelly. Black Diamond and Badlands are the two trims I am considering.

Holy cow! Where you live sir/ma’am? I’m in southern MN, but from Kansas City MO.

Yeah; constant and unflinching reminders that this isn’t a #lifestyle or a #friend, it’s a cold calculating corporation. Doesn’t mean I will work with or not work with them, just always arms length transactions. I’m kind of on a timeline focusing on student loans so I can afford to wait. But if you have the capital…

I like to think/hope that despite the Jalop’s breaking up that you secretly all get together off-band and stuff.

Is that part of here or not? I can’t tell. Maybe I could migrate.

I LOVE that the old writers of this site show up every now and then to say hey and such. They feel so much more connected to us keyboard jockeys on the other side.

I’m just going to add their new site to the rotation. Upstanding awesome commenters like you will keep this jalop thing here for me. Heck... I may consider throwing my hat in the ring to become staff if I get bored of writing for money to... uh... write for less money :-/

Hah! I think many of us do that. I haven’t had the heart to start commenting elsewhere because this is where the chit-chat happens. I’m probably just going to have a set of tabs for car-dork-talk for a while. See how the community shakes out here before doing something else.

I like that you’re here and there (the other lopnik). I’m not sure I want to break-up w/ the community. I’ll just have to drop something w/out a community like motorauthority in my daily rotation.

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Yeah V10 linked me. I didn’t know as I didn’t click on those links. I usually dodge the non-cars stuff but the Canadian Gravy Seal migration caught me.

Don’t try and cancel her. She just pulled an Aziz Ansari of columns. It was all consenting, the her writing and you reading.

“I’ve not been relevant, for bad or good reasons, for twenty years and now (for the former) I’m being talked about and despite crapping on everyone else for similar reasons I’m. Loving. It!”

What crime did she commit?