This is bullshit. How the hell am I supposed justify purchasing a cigarette jack-powered electronic butt warmer without a leather seat that inevitably feels colder than Vladivostok in mid-winter anytime it’s less than 60 degrees out?

I notice that you used an Alfa Romeo instrument closer in your check engine light mockup for added realism. Jason, you are seen and appreciated.

Shoutout to the lone Chevy Volt on the far left, hanging out like “lol you guys about done charging yet”.

Tesla Model 3. Just to distract from the panel gaps. 

It’s a two-ton SUV riding on the chopped-up bottom half of a mid-size sedan chassis. “Terrible to drive” was already its destiny. 

I could see them pairing up with a smaller OEM that already has their chassis development/testing/manufacturing shit together. Give me a Sony car with chassis and suspension tuning by Mazda, and I’m sold.

*prepares to unleash long-withheld screed that’s relevant to cars, I promise*

My Jalop variant of this pledge, personally made about a year ago, was that I’d never get another car with an automatic transmission again. When my daily driver dies, it’s getting replaced by something with no transmission at all (*crosses fingers and prays that the Mazda MX-30 isn’t disappointing*). And when the ‘90…

We’re the Millers. Excellently funny film. 

I come from a family of Camry owners. No clue what this whole “breakdown” business is, but seems fun!

Well this is awkward. I considered season 4 “peak Fringe,” and they almost lost me in the final season. I watched the show (obsessively) week by week when it was originally airing, and never again, so there’s a non-zero chance my fondness isn’t backed up by a re-watch. What’s your critique of the show?

Whoah whoah hey, watch what you’re calling “awful.”

Automakers finally figured out that their customers and factory assembly employees want exactly the same thing: to do their work roughly at hip-to-shoulder level, rather than knee-to-hip level.

Serious question: why give an RX7 the widebody/V8 treatment instead of getting something from that era which came stock with wide haunches and a V8? 

Jason, it seems your analysis assumes that “redundancy” inherently can’t be simultaneously cheap and robust. But in the automotive space (versus something like nuclear power, where the safety consequences are, ahem, high), this is frequently the working principle of a redundant system: a different, cheaper, shittier…

Certainly the best vehicle they sell that’s been designed in the last decade. The Land Cruiser still looks great. 

That’s just an optical illusion because her head is so low. She’s actually just sitting on the ground because the floor pan rusted out. 

So...I guess you could get a cheap FWD crossover like the Eclipse Sport or a Nissan Kicks. Or you could just grab a Kia Niro, pocket the gas savings while you get 50mpg in your Jalopnik-Approved Stealth Wagon for the next two decades, and hate yourself 100% less.

Selfishly, this was the conclusion I hoped Bradley would come to.

It did, but these stats ended at Thursday last week, so the Durango will be 2021's presumed winner. Rob mentions that in a comment somewhere else in this thread.