I think all this stuff is decades, maybe even a century, away from being a pressing concern. Deployment of fully autonomous cars is going to take a lot longer than the 5-10 years Silicon Valley claims to fish for venture capital money.

I think we all try to remember how fortunate we are to do what we do! Even if it is still a job, and like all jobs, it comes with its own amount of bullshit, corporate mandates, budgets, fear and loathing, etc. It’s a fun gig but everyone here works hard at it.

Thanks for reading!

Tom, your articles are always informative based on your ongoing experience in the business, and having you here is a real asset to Jalopnik (a win-win). Thanks.

Most people can’t afford to retire yet alone a mid life crisis.

The dirt was fun, but it was horrible for the mountain. I live near the base of it and i will say the run off from the road was clogging up drainage on the hill requiring tons of work (literally) to deal with erosion from the road. Paving changed the race, but it also made it so the race and the pikes peak hillclimb…

Did you signal?

I dunno, or maybe your car and your wife are not the same thing 

Back when I had first started college, I came across this Subaru 360 sitting behind a body shop in rural Connecticut. It was love at first sight. The car was in several shades of primer because they had used it for practice, or something, but it was complete. I knew about microcars, but this was the first one I had…

Well look at this fancy book-readin’ Jalop

This post is exceptionally timely and well-written.

Honestly, I’m not even sure.

David Tracy

what do they call it when you’re an alcoholic, but with crappy cars?

is in much worse shape than I expected, making it, quite possibly, the rustiest, crustiest vehicle I’ve ever owned. And that’s saying something.

It was FP2 on Friday afternoon. FP3 on Saturday morning was wet but not torential downpour wet.

I’ve been sitting on this image all weekend waiting for this. 

Were they working off a phone description of the new 124?

I was going to apologize for the use of MS Paint. But eff that, MS Paint is amazing.

They had better tow it outside of the environment.