Absolutely. Some of the lobotomies weren’t recent.

Yeah, the media landscape is completely different than when even I grew up reading those same magazines in the 2000s.

Topgear, Autoblog and Jalopnik was my order for automotive sites every morning and evening.  That really sucks. 

All forms of writing, including journalism, are art. If you’re as old as me, you remember the heydays of Road & Track and Car and Driver, when they had really good writers doing the journalism, and even better writers doing editorial and storytelling pieces. But really good writers cost money, and that eats into…

Man, for years my normal first two sites I opened rotation was Autoblog and Jalopnik. As you mentioned, there was a strong difference in the two blog styles that complimented each other very well and left us, the readership, with a wealth of information on all the goings on in the auto world.

I really dig checking them out in parking lots and at stop lights.  Kudos to Genesis.  Thank God they're not just slapping tacky black wheels on everything.  

Everyone loves to make fun of “protecting the local wetlands” until their neighborhood floods.

It’s easy to demonize the neighbors as petty or whiny, but maybe people are getting tired of the wealthy not following the rules that they were taught to follow?

Guy spent $100,000 on a vanity project for his kid and purposely avoided the government because he didn’t feel like he should pay the government a few hundred…

I mean, we know who’s in the wrong. Like it or not, the dad didn’t figure out if one was necessary and/or didn’t apply for a permit. Unsurprisingly, most villages/towns/cities don’t want you to install paved race tracks in your back yard. So they require you to get a permit. He didn’t do it, and built it anyway. Would…

If the federal standard is measured at a certain RPM or % throttle opening, a car can be federally legal *until* you rev the nuts off it in first gear.

Truth is Ferrari, Lambo, Porsche are quite quiet driven normally at 2,000rpm, but then, I would not be surprised that this guy got caught pushing the rpm just to be seen in Manhattan. Just put it in auto mode, and it will stay quiet.

do you really want to force an all or nothing issue on the nation? Should everyone lose their supercar because this one asshat in brooklyn couldn’t keep the revs down?

One day you’re gonna buy a house and this opinion is gonna flip flop faster than a stack of pancakes

The states are not allowed to make laws that are less restrictive than the Federal law; but they are allowed to make laws that are more restrictive. That’s how California can have its own emissions requirements (CARB). Unfortunately this results in a patchwork of laws that vary by state; making regulatory compliance a…

Another part of living in society is accepting that other people will do things you don’t like, and you have to live with it. 

Funny part it they really aren’t that loud when driven normally. When it involves noise, I’m finding more and more people are getting annoyed at ANY noise above a whisper and that to is excessive and controlling.

This is becoming a problem in multiple states it seems.

Clarkson is an asshole, no denying. But, the world is full of them. We tolerate way worse in our celebrities, politicians, and friends.

It was swapped for an LS.

In a much smaller vein, consultants descended on small and medium sized towns in the 70s convincing them they had to modernize their main Street to look more like a shopping mall. So all the lovely unique buildings with brick facades and such got paved over with aluminum trim and cheesy facades. Now actually starting…