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I’m surprised that racing is apparently that much more profitable than building cars. Otherwise wouldn’t they lay off the racing team employees first? Maybe it’s not though. I suppose it may be easier to find production workers than racing employees if things pick back up and they need more labor. Or possibly they’re

The Tour de France is as serious a race as anything any pro driver ever does in a car. Your dumb attitude about bikes really is childish. There are probably no athletes in the world that could rider the Tour that are not already in the pro peleton.  It is unbelievably hard, takes an extraordinary amount of skill on

It’s elegant, but it would be cheaper to just retrofit existing parking meters and street lights. The main problem is not finding space for the chargers, but doing all the underground wiring work and distribution infrastructure upgrades necessary to deliver all this power. That, and keeping drunk assholes from just

Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die.

Current Hertz employee here. Contrary to popular belief these are probably the best taken care of used rentals you can buy. Unless something went really wrong at some point, these aren’t getting into the hands of the weekend traveler who reserved a Yaris, they’re being rented by people who actually are willing to fork

Exactly. Bring back Stef Shrader!

Nah, we just need Sean MacDonald back. Whether it’s a sub blog or not, we need him to come home, back to Jalopnik. 

That one has electric windows, some had hand winders, located right in the middle of the plastic circle on the door.

You’ve a few years to wait for the one I really quite like the Ford StreetKA.

Exactly my thoughts.

It will have to earn a name.

You'll Be Alright

I’m supposed to write a goodbye post, I guess. I’m supposed to say something profound about the State of Cars, or

David working on his Jeeps:

My son bought this MX-3 last summer for $1200. New mexico car, rust free, engine needs to be replaced, but until that happens, oil is cheap. And it made it from Albuquerque to the East Coast.

I’m glad the sites you visit have better ads. The sites I like to visit just got them today...

“For your contribution, here is a check for $10,000....but for some reason our accounting department issued checks for $15,000. Just deposit the check, mail us $4,000 cash and keep and extra $1,000 for your troubles.”

Have you tried the Ford Simulator?