oh ok. if you’re saying the Prius is kind of the default hybrid or that Prius is synonymous with hybrid i totally agree with you. making a car look kind of cool instead of weird and ugly, and more than doubling the horsepower without hurting fuel economy sounds legit to me, i wouldn’t call those gimmicks. but i would a…

Articles like this only make me love the Japanese more and more. They know that collective sacrifice and strict policies are required in order to keep driving as a privilege and not a right. Here in the States, we have 20-somethings acquiring used Hellcats or heavily modified German or Japanese cars and destroying…

TBH I actually agree with you—you see a HR-V, you know its an HR-V. 

I genuinely LOL, appreciate that!

Wearing headphones while operating a vehicle in the roadway (integrated bike lane is included) is illegal in many states, and a horrible idea in every state.

If Newsom was actually interested in helping Californians and changing the awful status quo, he’d make sure rich NIMBYs don’t block dense developments and that more people can easily exist without a car, as you are. Instead, we get this....

As an optimist, I have to point out that it could have been worse. It could’ve been a slideshow.

Bonus: most of the world’s billionaires could potentially go down with the ship when this ugly thing sinks. Considering how stupidly large that insult to all turtles is, you probably won’t make it to the life boats in time before the deck leans too much for you to be able to get around... :P

“Captain, the Chanel store is flooded, and there are fish swimming in the Nobu that aren’t on the menu!”

Totally agree. I didn’t make a big announcement about it, but I was on leave for quite a while this year dealing with medical issues that also didn’t allow me to drive. That meant walking pretty much everywhere I went, including the hospital where I had my medical appointments. The walking wasn’t anywhere near as big…

Seconded. 

“For reference, that’s less than one third the total land mass of Texas, and yet it’s about four times as many people, since the population of the Lone Star State is roughly 29.1 million.”

I agree with you on the fresh new looks and who it’s being aimed towards, but having been around Bentley, Rolls, Maybach, and a lot of those types of cars, a few things make the “old skool luxury” brands stand out:

The John Player Special livery just works.

Between this and the grenading engines, I don’t trust them either for now.

I know you meant George Thorogood but now I can’t stop thinking about our first African American Supreme Court Justice performing that terrible song.

Jalopnik: “I wish car makers took more risks. Every car is a boring, gray CUV.”

Sure, it’s a crossover cash grab, but they didn’t phone it in. It’s a mid-front V12, with performance platform to back that up.

It’s all lip service of course. Take these two sentences from the Presidential Emergency Board report that was tasked with coming up with a workable compromise: