Fun read, but I feel like you missed the bit where you actually performed the comparison between the race car and the street car that was the genesis of this article :p

I know of a cooler one ...

This is a bad take.

Why do you feel the need to absolutely *hate with a fiery passion that has been stereotyped into your entire generation* crossovers so often?**

*hate in this context means write with your usual mix of charm, skepticism, and on-brand jalopness

Things that are inside are more reliable that things outside? Number of cars I have broken a door handle on, 1. Number of cars where a window motor went out, 5. It really doesn’t matter where it is placed, a simple lever will be more reliable than a sensor.

Okay Grandpa Elon, let’s get you to bed.

Not sure how a brass piece is going to warp. This is likely stronger than the plastic piece ever was. The only downside I can see is that the plastic housing it went into will likely break before it does, so the potential for the next repair to be much more difficult is higher.

How is this janky? This fix is less likely to break than the original design.

Why the hate? Someone’s gotta fork over the big bucks if our governments won’t. Let the Bazillionare Space Race commence, and godspeed, I say. We’ll get some actual technological advancements that will further mankind’s journey into the cosmos, while also having a chance to witness some one-percenter explode on…

So, let’s say one person goes to the Sky Deck of the Willis Tower looks out then goes back down, is that person not allowed to say that they’ve been to the top of the Sears Tower?

Jalopnik has a problem only when rich people pay over MSRP for a Bronco but not a GT3 Touring.

“Despite what many people may say or think, none of this is ok.”

It’s only better looking because both the ones you posted have an R34 Skyline GT-R face grafted onto them.

Better looking is debatable. The front end swap looks tacked on and does NOT flow with the body lines. 

Golf R’s have barely depreciated. I don’t get why you think the Golf R wagon would...

Hmmm - I sold my ‘17 GTI for less than $4K less than I paid for it new this past January. Hardly rock-like depreciation.

I think it started one generation before, with the neon SRT-4. Cars that came from the factory able to run 13's for under $20k, and with factory backed performance upgrades. For $25K you could conceivably have a car that would run 11's on 100 octane at the track and still get you decent MPG on your commute to work.

I still doubt it. If they ever get that cheap, they’ll get snapped up by builders and hot rod shops for engine swaps.

I used to think the same thing, but I don’t think that Hellcats will ever depreciate enough to be driven by many 17 year olds. Yes there will be kids who want nothing more, and save a ton of money to buy one. And there will be well-off parents who don’t know better and will their son one, but by and large I don’t see…

Really? “I have better taste and I’m younger!” doesn’t qualify as flex?