As you stated the new car is a “nicer” car. My question is though, WHY? Why does every car have to get nicer? Why cant companies just continue to offer a car for what it is? Why do they keep trying to have a car grow with the audience it is currently hot with? All that does is necessitate a NEW base model to come in…

The crying child dolls appeared on the car show scene 25-30 years ago. The story behind them, as I understand it to be, is that the kids are crying because their inheritance has been spent on the show car. Therefore the kids are crying.

I weep at the sight of this car, but I would never weep in front of / laugh at this person. It’s only their taste I question, not their enthusiasm.

Maybe I’m just too immature (Almost assuredly the case), but I love stupid things like this. I’d rather someone show off their lifted truck and silly butterfly doors and anything else they did and have fun, rather than say “no, you should only modify vehicles in this way or that way”.

Holy fuck. The 5 already feels like Talladega when you get over the grapevine. Do you know how many Escalades are going to want to do +120mph? 

That looks to be about 2x3/4. That amount of titanium can withstand about 95,000 lbs of force in compression before it will yield. This of course depends on the grade and annealing. Given certain grades, that yield strength can go up, significantly. It very well could be capable of withstanding almost 200,000 lbs of…

The 1998 Supra Twin-Turbo (ADM) made 276 HP...supposedly.

Let me throw out a “back in the day”, over 20 years ago, I allegedly raced on “Long Islands only drag strip”, Deer Park Ave. We ran an ‘88 Mustang LX 5.0 with some decent engine/suspension mods, it was no slouch. There was a GNX that we lost to every time. The brake light in the rear window said “You Lose” when lit…

It might be useful to toss that HP number and put its acceleration times into the context of other performance cars of the era.

This has been grinding my gears for decades. Rear downforce is definitely necessary (and functional) on a really fast FWD car. The air doesn’t care which wheels are driven. 

I had a Celica with a Cruise Control switch that was supposed to make freeway driving easier, but when you turned it on it just floored the throttle and made you fear for your life.

Whenever I see something like this, I start to wonder about the seller, and this is why I like Facebook Marketplace way more than Craigslist. You can click through to the seller’s profile page, snoop through their photos a little bit, etc.

She is irrelevant. She is a very junior member of a very large house positing a plan that no senior member of Congress is going to follow. She can list plans that say anything and no one is going to listen.

Care to provide any more detail on these “oil company subsidies” which, if existent, are supposedly in a comparable scale to the $21 trillion this plan requires?

Occassional Cortex is irrelevant. What she believes or plans has no bearing outside the four walls of her office where reality exists. Inside are where the unicorns and fairy dust and 21 trillion pentagon dollars are just taking up space waiting to be spent.

Jalopnik should have a feature where David drives and reviews ONLY appalling shitboxes. With his obsession with rusted out piles of Jeep and his love of taking things apart, we could call it The Automasochist.

They sold 44,000 of these things in 6 months?! Holy crap the market for Barbie Dream Campers is much larger than I would have imagined.

With how much energy it took to raise a turd dispenser like me, I’m not surprised he doesn’t know much of the 80s and 90s.

We’re still paying extra for it. It’s just included in the base price of the vehicle now.