So the logo itself is the same, they just changed the chrome to white. Got it.

Kinda hilarious that the first entry I see in the best wagon QOTD isn’t a wagon.

I would argue the Matrix was a hatchback rather than a wagon. The first gen is close, the second gen is definitely just a hatchback:

Someone’s gotta be the smart ass, right?

V70R of course! More specifically the second generation. 300hp, AWD, and a 6-speed actually available in the US this time!

Toyota Matrix - XR trim with a manual if you’re into manuals.

Racing isn’t safe, and the drivers know that.

I say make the cars even faster!

Having grown up in the northeast, I thought people in the southwest were just idiots. Thought there’s lots of evidence to suggest that is often the case (everyone has bald tires and dry rotted wiper blades), remember that a lot of people down there are transplants and not natives. The natives in Arizona and Nevada at…

It’s had a few days on here before

Do people who write for Jalopnik actually like cars?

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

I’ve written more absurd headlines but this one is pretty good, ngl.

Can we please just ban bicycles already? Set up closed courses in parks if you need the exercise, but please, do not bring these things on streets and keep endangering everyone else.

It does become a security issue however when a passenger becomes unaccounted for in the airport. If they are on a late connection and miss that flight, they are accounted for. Just up and bailing out on the flight plans though? Where is this person? Are they going to come up to the counter later hoping to catch a…

Agreed, Beep Beep was nominated but didn’t make it. And also agreed with the above comment lamenting the lack of Beach Boys. Frankly, not that great a list :(

Good grief, what a lot of missing stuff.

Where’s “Little Nash Rambler”, err, “Beep Beep” by The Playmates?!?

Thankfully that girl was not in another castle!

Waypoint shut down, All of Giant Bomb’s original folks moved on, now the last of the oldschool Kotaku writers leaves the site. I know that most of these folks have other projects ongoing, but it does seem like a lot of my old standard bookmarks aren’t what they used to be, for better or worse.

Executive producers Steve Gaub and Tomek Baginski have promised that there will be a “flawless” transition between the two actors and that it will be “very, very close to the meta ideas which are deeply embedded in the books.”