I joke that Apple shut down the car because they couldn’t design it with a one button interface but I think the reality is they found out how hard making a car is. Car Play and iPhones is,a profitable and well understood business. Building a whole car with some level of self driving is like going from a Sopwith Camel…

A couple of thoughts; some of my recent issues have been with metal building screws which will actually hold air for a long time because of the rubber washer, this leaves lots of time to go to the shop. The really bad one is tread separation.  I've had one older tire do that, fortunately parked in my driveway.  I've…

Hitting obvious targets,  the Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet and the BMW X6. Also the Mitsuoka Orochi and Citroën Ami 6. 

Ad Block makes Jalopnik usable.  I run Blokada on my phone and uBlock Origin on Firefox at home.

Ignition interlocks were not totally stupid but deeply unpopular. Which is why they were only present in 1974 and quickly defeated. Of course interlocks were thought up by Joan Claybrook who was also responsible for the stupidest US “safety” standard, the 85 mph speedometer.

Nothing can redeem Crocs from eternal dorkiness.

Yes, I  plan to get the Dead Milkmen's Bitchin Camaro, that was driven up from the Bahamas 

Emotionally a Landrover Defender and a Mini both OG versions. Intellectually a newish pickup to do work and an air cooled 911

There is a tiny grain of truth to the lore of GMC being tougher than Chevy. In the 50s and 60s GMC often used different engines from the medium duty line in light trucks but by the late 60s they were the same as Chevy to save $$

It appears I can fly Redmond to DC as cheaply as Portland to DC and I can fly Alaska instead of United. Now I just need dates

4th gear Apple canceled their car because they couldn’t figure out a one button interface.

Was he using GladOS for a GPS? “in 300 yards turn right and drive off a cliff, you stupid meat bag”

Reason 732 why air travel is shite. I'm looking at flying for the first time in a decade and dreading it. 

A battery powered grinder is pretty cheap these days, or a can of spray paint.  

This series is proof that a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into and few things are more expensive than a cheap boat. Good luck sailing that thing in ocean waters. 

I'm sure it seemed really clever at the time.  Every Columbo plot has a murderer who thinks they are clever, and Columbo hoodwinked them into confessing.  

Yeah, I would buy a small truck to replace my big truck, but I’d still be stuck making payments, versus my current old truck I bought for cash and leave sitting for weeks. This keeps me daily driving the crossover and monthly driving the pickup 

I'm unsurprised,  this was a boondoggle from the get go so cutting corners on worker safely to get more money is no surprise.  Las Vegas should have built rail or a trolley bus instead of a disco tunnel,  but colored lights look cool. 

A truly small truck is blocked by the EPA “footprint rule" that mandates ridiculously high gas mileage. They exist elsewhere so put this in the same trash can as the chicken tax 

I'm surprised wood lites didn’t get mentioned since they were the height of cool in the thirties