Yep, agreed. I think after lower 6-digits, the performance/price curve goes off a cliff.

Don’t care. I will always adore that car, with the screaming chicken ofc.

When Jalopnik was Jalopnik.

This take and the Supra take are both correct. It’s not that Supras and Skylines are bad cars, just that they are absolutely 100% not the end-all-be-all so many people make them out to be.

4th Gen Supra. During its time known as a heavy GT (Grand Touring) car and mostly overlooked compared to the FD and NSX and some may even say GT3000 at the time. Only when they got more affordable and you started seeing 1000HP tunes did they start picking up in value and people started wanting them. F&F fame also…

Oh I am gonna get burned at the stake for this, but Nissan GTR, R34 and earlier.  It’s not that it’s not a good car, from everything I have heard people say about them they are in fact good cars.  But IMO, their main claim to fame, aside from Gran Turismo, is you can tune the literal hell out of them and make monster…

Mustang II King Cobra.  All show, no go.

Pretty sure the Grand Highlander has been available for 3 weeks? There might have been some sold “sight-unseen”?

GM’s demise was a bit more complicated than “they didn’t make good small cars.”

GM’s profit margins were absolutely horrendous, because of decades of bloat, poor management structure, and dealer and union obligations. Its overhead was too high. It needed these large, high-profit trucks to make any money. And that’s why…

For me it was the Honda S2000, if you look at the essence of the 2000s as what is was rather than what was to follow this is a good answer. Mazda came out with the Miata a decade earlier, and it sold and sold. Everybody had to come out with their own small, relatively modestly priced sports car and we suddenly had a…

For me, the defining car of the aughts will forever be immortalized on the box art of what is arguably the best Need For Speed game of all time: the E46 BMW M3 on the cover of the original NFS: MW. It was, and still is, one of the sexiest cars of that decade, and everyone wanted a piece: your dentist (because money),…

For regular-ass people, the L31 Altima. These things were everywhere. Little did we know back then how... notorious these humble Altimas would be 20 years later. Still found in today’s buy here, pay here lots, and finding one today without any body damage is rarer than seeing a LaFerrari on the road. Historic picture:

The state of New Jersey is trying to trick dumb white bald people to visit. Notice you don't see NJ tourism ads here in the states. My gawd. Bruce is huge in the UK. But read the lyrics, people! Don't be fooled!

I hope Lucid can launch their SUV in time to give them all of the breathing room they need. I really want them to succeed. I’m not sure what it is about the company and their product but I’m hooked (though I know I’ll likely never be able to afford one).

Isn’t it funny? I, too, like Rivian, and there’s no particular reason why (though their piece in “The Long Way Up” seemed generally positive). I’ve just ended up with the impression that they are serious people making a serious product, with their eyes wide open throughout. Some kind of marketing lessons in all of…

Good. I like Rivian, and the people I know with them (both R1Ts and the R1S) like them a lot. 

No, you are working at the wrong position.

A lesson for Jeep or a reminder to ask ourselves why we’re still reading a car blog that used the wrong car? Even if you confuse the design, it says Grand Cherokee on the door. 

I’ve called around and done some footwork to see if I can secure a new 911 T before I bought my CT4V Blackwing. It was very, very difficult. Nay, impossible to get one for a reasonable price. For one, the 911 Ts have limited allocation. It’s just a sportier base model. WTF does it need to have an allocation?!?!…

Porsche told its U.S. retailers at a two-day meeting in the Canary Islands this week.