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Joe Squirrel
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When I saw the headline, I thought “Where have a I heard the name Roy Moore before...” And then:

4th Gear: Any new development in automobiles that requires the driver to pay more attention and take more responsibility is destined to fail. Drivers are already as attentive as they’re ever going to be, and want to be less so. If you want to call something “Safety Technology” you don’t get to foist responsibility for

Better than reusing those old Ford concept pictures from the other articles. At least that render is a Jalopnik original.

I don’t even want to think about how much it’ll cost to replace those fogged-over head lights.

Going out of production? Now’s the perfect time to buy a used one and sit on it while the enthusiast value appreciates.

“Ford business analyst predicts slight decline in company’s sales growth, market declares Ford company dead and bankrupt, share price declines to pennies.”
Why do market watchers not treat Ford’s ups and downs the same as other auto companies anyway? It seems like stock traders are always watching Ford for any sign of

Call me crazy, but does aerodynamics count for nothing in truck design? I know Europe has incredibly stringent vehicle-length requirements for rigs, but considering this thing needs all the efficiency it can get and doesn’t need a big radiator, you’d think they’d try to get a better drag coefficient than a phone booth.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t watching you.

Acura’s lucky the car didn’t come back with a turd in the A/C.

So the guy set his cruise control to about 10% over the speed limit on a fairly empty stretch of high speed road. If I’m not mistaken this is the normal mode of driving in America.

The real point of interest in this story is that David Tracy has a landlord. A landlord who sees his property on a daily basis. A landlord who is A-OK with a tenant operating what is essentially a private junkyard on his property, right next door.

That guy is the most chill landlord on the face of the earth.

No wonder we’ve been getting Morning Shift stories for a year about inexplicably soaring Jeep sales and Marchionne shopping around for a merger partner. They were building a valuation on bunkum by broadcasting fake numbers, and we wrote off the doubters as just crapping on FCA for old time’s sake.

Not going to lie, I would have believed the first four were real. The Solitaire car gave away the joke. Torch, never stop spinning amazing narratives around obscure references.

“Don’t park a McLaren next to a Ferrari. It looks normal. Park it next to a ‘90s Thunderbird.”

Every stupid drunken stunt you could ever attempt, Graham was born to survive. He’s living his best life.

Millenial reporting in. When I was a kid, my parents had two cars, a Mercury Capri convertible, and a Nissan hardbody pickup with a bed top. I was an only child but I had a bunch of friends. Any time we wanted to go to the beach, dad would fire up the Nissan and we’d all pile into the back, competing to see who could

Total restoration doesn’t cut it. Behold the Racecar of Theseus.

I don’t even want to think about how much that’ll cost to fix the first time a plastic bag gets caught in the motor.

I am surprised and shocked that this show managed to stay on TV with this cast as long as it did. I think the last time I watched it was 2010.

Flatscreen computers that are built into the dash instead looking like a tacked on Garmin, and interior details covered in glowing Tron lines. Finally a car that lives up to the concept promises. Gimme gimme.

You know what? Even the Puma looks better than that Rolls concept.