I have just one brother, and my parents had a minivan in the 90s. It was nice being able to take us and some friends on an outing in one vehicle, especially when we were too small to sit in the front passenger seat. And it was also a big advantage to be able to remove the 3rd row and pack tons of stuff when we went on…

Absolutely, the Tesla is still very much in the wrong here. I just get tired of seeing people drive with the mentality of filling all the empty space in front of their car, and then treating pileup crashes (usually due to weather) as an inevitability.

Hot take: yes Elon is a dipshit and yes Tesla FSD is a mess, but after watching the footage, I’d say the other cars bear a significant portion of the blame for not leaving a safe following distance in front of them

Not a fan of the 2-tier price cap depending on body style - the last thing we need to be doing is incentivizing less efficient allocation of resources. With a limited amount of battery materials available, creating larger batteries to propel heavier vehicles will inevitably result in fewer of those vehicles being…

To some (environmentalists), the entire point of having a federal standard is to incentivize/require the truck or suv owner you’re describing to buy a Prius or Bolt when they wouldn’t have done so otherwise. (You may disagree as to whether or not this is a good thing to do.) But a fuel efficiency standard that has…

Big surprise that standards based on outdated assumptions have resulted in stagnation. For decades, the “light truck” classification has drifted further and further away from defining strictly work vehicles, to the point where it’s basically useless as a regulatory criterion. To modernize the standards, we either need…

Counterpoint: the root cause of the problem isn’t cars, but out-of-control American capitalism and its focus on making as much money as possible and maintaining exponential growth forever.

I can’t wait for the Ram Ranch special edition. 

That one Onion article that’s been re-posted so many times has its own Wikipedia page now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/’No_Way_To_Prevent_This%2C’_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens

Introducing… Jalopnik+

I’m in, but only if the warranty is available in the form of an NFT.

“…enhance American competitiveness.”

1st: I’d keep the tax and redistribute the revenue as another round of stimulus checks or some other form of flat-rate tax credit for the lower and middle classes. Something to ease the sting in the short term, but maintain the disincentive to buying fuel.

A driving peace this morning with it brings;
The truck, for sorrow, will not show his roof:
Go hence, to put more gas in these sad things;
Some shall be modded, and some mall rated:
For never was a story of more tow
Than this of Wrangler and her Ford Bronco.

Doubling up in the turnaround lane for a Michigan left.

A victim complex is a hell of a drug.

The customer is not always right. (In fact, they are usually wrong.) But it’s no surprise that a business would follow the customer, right or wrong, to where they want to spend their money.

Also love how they claim to be the party of “personal responsibility,” but they won’t examine their own choice to buy a 15 mpg brodozer

High gas prices won’t last forever (and neither do low ones).

I seem to recall a study that correlated the decline in violent crime from its peak in the late 80s/early 90s with the reduction of lead in the environment (from both leaded gasoline and paint).