Neutral: I was bummed to read this morning that Bob Seger’s house caught on fire this weekend. Yeah, he’s fine and uber-rich and all that, but that’s still the dude’s dream house. I went their once on Halloween when I was in high school. It was way too late (like 10pm) for trick-or-treaters, I was stoned out of my…

Somehow you both explicitly committed to not doing something and then went and did it anyway in the same comment. In light of the focus of second gear (politics) I can’t help but appreciate the irony.

I love the fact that in that decade, people liked sporty two door cars enough that a mere division of a larger car company could have the Grand Prix Turbo, Firebird, Grand Am GT and Fiero in their lineup. On top of that, there was the 6000 STE and Bonneville SSEi if you wanted a sporty four door.

Not to mention if you live in an area that salts the roads a 5 year old for 20k probably wont last until the end of that loan.....

Because that 5 year old $80k car will indeed run for another however many years - but will cost you A LOT more in maintenance over that time. Because higher-end cars have more stuff on them that can go wrong, tend to be bigger (so all the little wear parts that you need to replace will cost more), etc.

“But by the 1960s, freeways in cities across the country were growing less popular every year. Opponents argued that they destroyed homes and businesses, eviscerated poor neighborhoods and made traffic congestion worse, not better.”

3rd Gear: Stellantis impacted by cathode ray tube shortage.

This is not atypical for most cabbies, who have to rent their car from dispatch or, as in New York, from other medallion holders. But I'm sure that after the math is done, drivers will end up with the short end of the stick. 

JLR’s problem with their EVs is much like that of other automakers: they focused on making their EVs too distinctive to make sure that everyone knows it’s an EV. The wacky i-Pace was too big and wide for markets like the UK, and too much of a hatchback for places like the US and China. It is awkward looking and…

I can’t tell if saying GM would get back to being its old self was meant as a good thing.

Ford is 100% the Cheddar Bob of the automotive industry.

Cruz went 1) out of the country 2) during a pandemic 3) and an entirely preventable disaster 4) on vacation, 5) which is not the same thing as parental leave, 6) you disingenuous fucking idiot.

I suspect Erik is drooling when he get to write insults like this.

5th Gear: These stories are not bad, necessarily, even though they celebrate capitalism.

Fuck right off.

Shilling can’t help himself when it comes to his limp wristed attempts to slam capitalism. 

“These stories are not bad, necessarily, even though they celebrate capitalism.”

“The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper that fundamentally loves successful business. These stories are not bad, necessarily, even though they celebrate capitalism”

Its unfortunate how far Jalopnik has fallen. It would be nice to read 5 gears of news without Erik’s HORRIBLE take on everything. I come to read quick blurbs about car news, but it has become increasing difficult to read this site because of the biased and frankly terrible takes by so many of the writers here. As an…

1st gear:. Sandy Munro says part of the problem why some companies are being hit worse than others is because some are using stuff that is old. And in the chip world, old also means physically bigger for the amount of capability or more chips needed for the same capability. And he said that Tesla isn’t as affected…