Bob is an absolute Jalopnik hero, but this is 100% the correct take. I think the real takeaway is that in many cases just fixing things right and replacing wear items can do much more for your car than mods. Even in this discussion a lot of what people are mentioning are more upgraded wear items than actual mods,…

Maintenance isn’t a mod, bob

Fully agree with the first statement, fully disagree with the second. Debadging makes cars look cheap and pretentious all at once. Like a BMW 320i pretending to be a 340. You typically don’t tend to see that on higher trims, either.

I’m not going to count wear items - sorry tires and wipers, you are easy to replace to substantially improve things, but you’re going to be replaced anyway at some point - so I’m going to go with remote start.

Looks good - getting a real OG GT vibe from that side profile.

There is a superlative joy in just watching someone that is just so, so good at what they are doing.

I’ve got the same bike, albeit in better condition, I suppose, for not having been left to deteriorate outdoors. After eventually moving on to more current technology over the years (i.e., carbon, full suspension, modern gearing, etc.), I still maintain the bike which pretty much now with street tires only gets…

This seems like a much better candidate for rescue and rehabilitation than one of Tracy's fifteen Cherokee-oxide hybrids. For one, it's small and doesn't leave fluids/particles of itself wherever it goes...

The key to committing public crime is to look bored while doing it, so people automatically assume you are allowed to be doing whatever super sketchy thing you are doing. It is when you start sweating and acting squirrelly they start getting suspicious.

I have a hardhard and yellow reflective vest I use for work. I think could could get away with taking literally anything while wearing that outfit. Combined with a plain white pickup truck? You could literally go at the lock with an angle grinder in the middle of the day and nobody would care.

Yeah, the GR has the rear wheels waaaay out at the corners, with just a basic body panel above them. The Discovery squished the panel down a bit, but essentially just drove right onto the GR’s wheel, ramping right off of it. Pretty good news for the Yaris, hopefully there’s no suspension damage and it just takes a…

But kiss your catalytic goodbye!

To that person who hit that precious GR Yaris...

If you’re the type of person who reads the fine print perhaps you don’t deserve to own a Tesla.

If they can really command 98% of the normal price for selling a car with 88% of the capacity, they have minimal incentive to change.

My main takeaway is that Tesla uses a first in last out storage scheme for at least battery packs, a curious choice given their vertical integration

The pack was brand new when the vehicle was built? What vehicle? The 2021 Model 3 that’s being sold with the pack, or another one that could be as old as one from 2017? I can’t quite make sense of this.

Hum, chunky tyres in F1 car + some ground clearance. I would watch that.

Why the negative spin? I prefer to look at the positive - F1 Rallycross.

Now, I’m no construction expert, but a rushed 24/7 build doesn’t sound like the kind of environment that is conducive to “stringent labor standards.”