It’s kind of amazing how many times Orlove writes something on which I agree, in principle, but recoil at the delivery, forum, and relevance. “There is no god”. Ok, I am an atheist... but what the eff? The self-righteous arrogance in this shock-journalism is ridiculous.

The point of at least 50% of Morning Shifts (and damn near 100% of Orlove’s) seems to be designed to have some combination of thinking the whole world is like Brooklyn, and shaming people who have the audacity not to agree with that.

That’s just Raph’s shtick. He’s the journalistic embodiment of “If you can’t get attention by doing something well, you can still get attention by doing it badly.”

“I often spend a few idle minutes wondering what America would look like if air travel went back to being ridiculously expensive and we all just drove to Wally World instead of flying to Hawaii.” 

It’s actually not a bad idea. Which is terrifying. 

This is a brutal joke story... Because of the deep truths

Mercedes’ Internet finds surprisingly work pretty well for the format. This... does not. Yeesh.

Username checks out.

That sounds badass and I fully support this endeavor from internetville

Sounds like someone who really loves their vehicle and refuses to let it rust to death. Keep slinging mud with “Bro-Dozer.”  I still don’t understand the anti-truck culture on Jalopnik.  

*ALL* cars look awesome with harlequin paint. It’s just that not all drivers have the style, panache, and complete and utter lack of fucks to pull it off.

It has to be Pontiac. GM powertrains and chassis have been excellent for a while now. Start off with resurrecting the G8 with a modern drivetrain, possibly a hybrid NA V6, a turbo V8 with mild-hybrid torque fill, follow up with a crossover (to keep them alive) or two with similar sporting pretensions.  Maybe a G6…

Of all the ways I could choose to go broke, this would not be it.  

I don’t expect perfection. I’m even with you on the point of getting it into beater status. But when you’re talking about spending real cash and a ton of labor just to get your car to beater status, it’s not worth it. At a minimum you’re going to need to replace the seats, replace the rear window, replace the tires…

I’m not eating that sandwich. 

They always get the best pot.

I had a Spark or Sonic or Aveo (I’m not sure which, I can’t tell them apart) rental car back in 2015. It was the worst car I’ve ever driven. Struggled to maintain speed up mountains. I don’t think I could get it over about 74mph on the interstate. Complete garbage. I don’t expect the Mirage is any better.

LeMons car to make a crappy knock-off of the Super Touring Stratus, which has to have been done before by this point in time, but still.

Can’t believe I made the list. Talk about being among giants!

Not black, happy to have you both in the community.