Thanks for a story on Tesla that isn’t free advertising. Great job.

This post includes the word, “kerfuffle,” so it is a Good Article.

I can’t say anything about reliability- but I finally saw one of these driving on the interstate yesterday, and man was that thing UGLY. Some sort of mix between a very bland suv/crossover and a concept car from the 80's or 90's that didn’t age well. Made me realize that there truly are people out there who nerd out…

What I still do not understand is why DRLs are exclusively a “front-of-the-car-only” thing. Why not have all of the lights on the car come on with the exception of the headlights? Now that everything is LEDs, it’s not like it’s inefficient, or bad for bulb life. At least that would solve most of the problem. The…

This post is thus far Jalopnik’s best attempt to quantify the damage Tavarish has done to people’s lives through his writing. Bravo!

Yep. The “Limited” and base “Custom” shared the same 3800 Series II V6, widely regarded as a fantastic engine. And 205hp was quite decent for a car like this.

Crazy to think that private corporations wouldn’t make the national good their first priority. Who could have ever predicted that?

I consider myself a fairly good driver and equipment operator. Grew up on a stick, have my CDL, pull 20k plus trailers regularly.

I have driven a lot of BMWs with that gear shifter. And while I’ve never had any really crazy shit happen like rollaways, I have found them to be annoyingly finicky at times—not wanting to go into park right away, not always shifting into reverse or drive when I ask, the beeping warning icons you mentioned, etc.

For 3 years I had the BMW version of these idiotic return-to-center joystick style shifters. I don’t get why car companies make them. My car had 3 fail safe mechanisms not present in the even stupider FCA version:

My wife has a 2014 Grand Cherokee that I drive a lot. What you demonstrated is actually a pretty common occurrence. But the difference I would point out is that even when you are paying attention, sometimes the shifter seems to physically stop itself before going past that third detent and into park. I don’t know what…

As a former valet and brief Jeep dealer employee, these stupid shifters caused me a lot of headaches. It is very difficult to get into reverse without skipping past it because, as you mentioned, the notches are very light and easy to pass over. When I was hustling cars around lots it was usual to be in drive, then put…

If your shiftier needs an instructional video...

I keep telling myself that I’ll never own a Corvette because they’re owned by the wrong kind of person, someone I’ll never be. That’s what I keep telling myself

This isn’t progress. Stateless controls for critical stateful functions is lousy interface design.

sometimes i think i’m the crazy one when bad design bugs me.

I have the JGC with that shifter. I’ve put it into park and gotten out of the car only to find it in R and N instead. Thankfully, only on flat ground.

It seems really stupid to me that pushing the shifter forward to the stops doesn’t result in park.

ITS A JEEP THI...oh.ill see myself out.

I do love the double-standard here. If this had been a 1995 GM car, there would be all kinds of comments about “typical GM junk.” But instead, because it’s a 21 year old piece-of-shit Honda, somehow it gets a pass...

I took out three mortgages to put a down payment on an Elio.