...in a small town you know exactly how people are making their money. It isn’t a secret. I went to school with the kids whose parents owned the dealerships in town, my English teacher was married to a bigwig at the hospital, I went to school with the kid of a guy who owned a crap ton of McDonalds around the area, etc,…

You clearly aren’t from a small town. I grew up in a town much smaller, much much much farther away from a major population center and there were absolutely people making good money driving $100k cars around.

That’s fine. If I’m getting bent over, it may as well go to the people actually responsible for the product - not some useless middleman. 

Literally the title:

No. The performance aftermarket routinely offers varying levels of performance with each increase in performance generally coming at the expense of streetability. Big difference between bumping the stall RPM of your torque converter 500 RPM over stock vs 2000 RPM over stock.

Kind of a fact...street/strip or “race” parts are really meant for racing.  You’ve got to be realistic with yourself about how you’re using your car when making modifications. “I need a street/race transmission, cuz my car isn’t stock” leads to ridiculously harsh shifts that are miserable in daily traffic. That race…

And honestly, pay attention to anything with computer controlled timing. My Miata will run just fine on unleaded, due to the computer pulling timing, but it does run noticeably better on premium.

This is one of the things I have always found so impressive about Rossi. He won on two strokes and three of the four-stroke variants.

But, I’m all for the rider aids.  They’re important for safety, and they ultimately make the bikes better. While I’ll gladly wax nostalgic for those insane 2-strokes and the skill (and…

Nothing I’ve ever been interested in. Even a Miata is better with the higher trim levels (my NC is a touring with the Bilstein shocks and LSD).

That isn’t to say I only go for tip top trim levels - I’m typically a functional option kind of person. Best motor/transmission I can afford, upgraded suspension if available,…

Strawman arguments are logical fallacies - not winning.

One does not need to excuse the behavior of a criminal to believe they are, in fact, entitled to their 6th and 8th Amendment rights as laid out in the US Constitution.

This actually reminds me of a dually I just saw this past week with oversized wheels/tires that stuck out beyond the rear flares. You’ve already got four wheels & tires back there that don’t fit within the vehicle from the factory, but you need 6 more inches on both sides???

You are not acknowledging the continuous stream of bad cops on video. You are not acknowledging their colleagues standing around, at best watching, at worst participating in their bad deeds. You are not acknowledging the departments, unions, and droves of other cops who actively support these “bad apples”...not a…

We need a fully fledged market for EVs. Hard to argue Tesla isn’t the pinnacle of the EV heap right now, but I personally don’t like them.  I’d absolutely take their powertrain in an old car though...

...you can use a truck as a truck and not be hauling and towing at full capacity. I’ve seriously got to believe people like you have never really needed a truck and therefore can’t image the actual uses for one. Hauling parts from a junkyard, hauling lawn equipment, hauling plants, dirt, rocks, furniture, etc, etc,…

This is naïve as fuck and sounds like you have no experience whatsoever with dealerships.

I’ve had dealers keep my keys after performing their trade in analysis, even when I was explicit we were too far off on numbers (they played that “talk to the manager” game 4 or 5 times before finally giving my keys back).

I’ve…

Do you realize how difficult it is to get 72% of Americans to agree on anything?

Do you also realize how many dealers insist on starting the car buying process in person? The number of email responses that come back “come on in and we’ll talk numbers!” is fucking ridiculous.

To answer both questions quite simply, a hell…

Uh...you DO have to shop there if you want a new car. Largely because of franchise laws that are aggressively lobbied for by dealership groups...

Dealerships are fucking awful and its real tiring seeing the same fear mongering from obvious dealership hacks whenever this comes up. If you actually provided that much…

This is why generational terms are fucking stupid. I’m also an older millennial and grew up in a very different time from those in the early 90's. The only thing that binds this generation is the rapid change in technology, growing up as phones transitioned from corded land lines to cellphones (and eventually smart…

These are the same tired arguments people used to put down EFI 30 years ago. It is nothing more than fear of the unknown and short term panic. Replacing a battery pack on a Tesla Model 3 takes about as long as replacing an engine in a typical ICE powered vehicle. And that is likely because Tesla isn’t the greatest…

It becomes hard for people in this country to actually identify what is “leftist”. Nothing written here on Jalopnik is leftist. The country has taken such a sharp turn right in the past 40 years that centrists (on the global scale) like Sanders and Warren are “the far left”. No one on this blog, no national political…