2nd Gear: For love of christ, can we please stop with this idea that PHEV’s are a half measure? Most of their battery packs are less than a quarter the size of an equivalent BEV’s, and just about anyone who uses one will tell you the fill the gas tank less than 10 times a year. Using a fraction of the most critical…

1st Gear: “It is “absurd” to argue that dealers contributed substantially, or even at all, to inflation, a spokesman for the National Automobile Dealers Association said.”

2nd Gear: Plug-Ins

Who are plug in hybrids for? Honestly, they’re for people like me. Every other week I have to drive between 400 and 500 miles to Ohio in pretty much whatever weather god decided to throw at the midwest. The rest of the time, I don’t have to drive that much- I work remote and when I’m at home, aside…

Plug-ins are for:

I will never stop calling Erik a terrible automotive journalist, and reminding people that he drove around for months with his high beams on because he didn’t want to/couldn’t replace the headlight bulb in his Fit. How did Jalopnik lose great writers like Fancy Kristen, Torch, and David Tracy but he’s still around?

I don’t know you, but I like you.

What an incredibly punchable face!

lmao, this is hilariously accurate

Remember when Jalopnik actually wrote stories about how they tested vehicles instead of writing about how a Youtuber made a video about it? 

Being a troll should not be commended. This guys is a douchebag.

Fuck this guy.  Don’t risk everyone’s life just because you have horny impulses.

This kid is more of a tool than the entire contents of a SnapOn truck. I watched one of his videos by accident. Never again.

I mean I get his schtick but it’s still so cringey. To be fair the only one I was 100% down for was wrecking the Carolina Squat truck.

Yep. Everyone’s remembering what these used to cost, but guess what? That was a decade ago, and finding one this clean with a matching hardtop is a unicorn. Now $10k for this is really quite reasonble. Find me a car you can have more fun with for $10k.

1st Gear: That’s what the whole “joint ownership” agreement was all about. To learn how it was done, using their labor. Then use, ahem, other gathering techniques, to fill in the gaps. China’s absolutely focused on playing to win.

1st: The west bowed to China, which basically required western manufacturers set up shop with China’s border in order to sell in its market. China then used / stole the IP to develop its own industrial giants, and now those same western manufacturers are fucked. It was all so predictable.

I love the second gen CTS-V’s so I always do a double take on these when I see them only to be disappointed....

The last slide with the Holden Commodore & Chevrolet SS literally doesn’t count lol Exact same car from different regions.

I’d never heard of Kei truck gardens, and holy shit I fucking love it. Seriously, when it comes to modding cars, no one quite does it in the surreal, fun way Japan does. I love Bōsōzoku and Dekotora for the batshit crazy, but this is equally surreal in its own way. And unlike the others, I’d 100% daily a Kei garden.