Yeah, totally. I went to visit family in Pennsylvania a few years ago after they had a huge hail storm. The local shopping mall was littered with abandoned cars that were almost certainly totalled from hail shortly thereafter.

You’ll never fix an aluminum panel that was hail-damaged; they’re pretty difficult with minor dings. Is the shell aluminum? An aluminum roof and quarters getting hail damage would be a nightmare.

I’d actually argue that they were, if only marginally. At least they could be navigated by feel. As long as you knew roughly where your AC or your radio knob was, you could change it without ever taking your eyes off the road.

In politics, the people who know enough about guns to be effective in regulating them usually don’t want to regulate them and those that want to regulate them don’t know enough to effectively do so. I guess that’s what happens when all the moderates (Blue Dog Dems and Rockefeller Repubs) get chased out of Congress.

Future Jalopnik-Amazon Post blog post:

If I won the Powerball, I would consider getting a K-egg. Because I might be able to text CvK at random hours asking for his opinion on things. Like, “Chris, whaddya think of the latest episode of Designated Survivor?”. That kind of stuff. CvK, being a gentleman an’ all, would prolly respond.

I think even the NRA isn’t blind to how all this looks. Democrats are just harder for them to buy off. If a crowd of country music (largely) white people aren’t safe, people are going to start asking questions that are harder to defend. Something needs to be sacrificed and as sacrificial lambs go, bump stocks aren’t…

If you want the Costco cigarette availability conspiracy theory you’re gonna have to talk to my dad. Nothing strikes terror in the heart of man like a hirsute arab with a cart full of toiletpaper and milk shouting about the supply and demand economics of Dunhill cigarettes.

Couldn’t edit my last, so here’s this little guy. Street parked, usually.

I own an IS300 wagon, and I’ve never seen another one with my own eyes before

Nice humble brag showing off the new car and mentioning that you live in Cape Cod. I’m sure new Luxury sedans really stand out there. :)

It just takes a couple snails* to turn a C4 into something worth having:

Body camera off = guilty until proven innocent.

I’m reminded of a time when I lived in Maine on those wavy unstriped roads. One Friday night, we were headed to a J. Geils concert in Bangor and needed a ride. One of the kid’s (we were 16ish) parents let us take their 411. Even though I was merely a passenger, I was blown away at how well the car handled the rough…

Having seen it in person and seen the excitement from Nissan USA employees for it, I am still deeply fucking mad. Like I wont recommend their vehicles mad. Fuck the whole brand mad. I will take this shit to the grave unless they find some really fucking awesome way to get back in my good graces. Bring out a Nissan…

I didn’t even learn about the IDx until this moment and I’m pretty sure my weekend is now ruined.

The Alfa’s fantastic, but my main takeaway from this is just how good Chris is at putting together coherent sentences while completely in control of big, lurid slides. Jezza and Hammond always seem to be giggling and shouting throughout the oversteery sections of their films, while Harris can seemingly narrate a…

I was just talking with my father in law last month, after he drove from California to Virginia in one go, with no breaks. To me, this was insane, and I told him so. But for him it was a habit ingrained from his youth. He told me about the state of travel for black folk in the 50s, when he grew up, and how his family…

That image in particular really gets me sick. I can get behind the other images as being trippy and cool, if violent and extreme, but that one was really nasty to me.