“measly $5k”
I don’t know if I’m too young or too old, but $5000 feels outrageous for a paintjob. That’s a complete used car in my book.

Part of Elio’s grand miserable scheme was, in order to make a car that’s super light and cheap, it wouldn’t be built to the standards of a normal car. That’s why it was three wheels, so he try to carve out a new regulatory environment of vehicles with the safety of motorcycles but the operator requirements of a car.…

“That oval with the lambda-looking thing in it is the symbol of Chery”
It’s the Infinity logo but slightly wider.
“Starfleet insignia ... Changan Commercial Vehicle”
Infinity logo but slightly taller, besides being the Starfleet badge.
“Haval H8"
The whole front end is a dead-ringer for a Ford Escape.
“Soueast”
Nissan badge
“J…

There’s a radio station in my market called The EDGE, cutting edge music for cutting edge people. They play the same Nirvana, Pearl Jam, REM and Chili Peppers songs they’ve been playing since the station launched. They finally accepted the inevitable and condensed that music into a programming block called the most…

Looks like a Maserati that was pulled out on a wrack.

That lead shot of the Matador patrol car really grabs me. How many government departments were sourcing cars from AMC in the late 70s? I have to think that if AMC was getting big contracts they would have been able to stay in business longer.

Person with a seven year old Toyota Camry (gonna take a wild guess that it’s off-white or champagne colored) manages to force the wrong filler into the fuel tank, pump the wrong gas, then drives it until the horribly knocking engine breaks a valve.
Sometimes, we at Jalopnik need a reminder of what people who are “not…

I’ll forgive that one. Recording real sounds from period cars is great, but good luck sourcing period tires.

I used to think movieland was a place where cars always refuse to start when dramatically appropriate. Then I watched RCR’s review of the Dodge Aspen and found out about the magic of hot carburetors and vapor lock. So at least there used to be a time when it was acceptable for a car that was just running a minute…

“healthcare is a commodity and how do we lower the price of a commodity...”
Do what every sane country as done, and turn healthcare into a public utility instead of a for-profit business?

There was a fantastic blog I followed years ago, just titled “I Am A Japanese School Teacher” about a large black man who moved there to teach English. The culture is famously rigid, but he was surprised by how readily people would break taboos and then just apologize for it, or how many weird eccentricities people…

While it’s good to see members of Congress trying to push Marino away from the seat, his legislation that they’re talking about was passed two years ago by an essentially unanimous vote. Every one of them should be asked, if you hate this law so much, why didn’t you say anything at the time?

Given the attention to detail of the cars in the movie, I bet at least one person in the prop department is a Jalop with a good imagination. Maybe that really is supposed to be a cantankerous old Torchinsky still plodding about in a heavily-modified mechanical turtle.

When I was growing up, my parents were terrible about running out of gas. My mother especially seemed constitutionally opposed to buying more than $10 worth of gas at a time, which was fine before the 21st century turned that into 3 gallons. So I always kept my tank full. Until...
I was helping a friend move…

I love people talking about how crappy the Geo Metro was, not knowing America had much worse, much cheaper cars at the time. When my family got a used Metro, it was a distinct upgrade from our previous car, a Diahatsu Charade. I can’t describe how awful it was any better than the name does, it was at best an imitation…

Great find. The exact indicator is on the landing page for the Mystery Object quiz. Torch will have hours of fun with this!
OH DANG There’s even an article on some leather gloves with built-in turn indicator lights.

Every doubling in speed requires quadrupling in system energy and breaking the sound barrier only makes it worse. Linear increase in speed, exponential increase in effort. Tesla is going to learn that the cost of sending people around the world on an hour’s notice is never going to be low enough to turn a profit,…

Dan from IT is a greater ally than you might know. Obama was the Black president first and foremost. But he was also a Nerd president, and Donald Glover and NdGT will back that up. And after the long dark years of the Bush administration, he became a hero to my fellow nerds as well.

Yes, the nerd world is overrun with…

Anyone can see the road that they walk on
Is paved in gold
And it’s always summer
They’ll never get cold
They’ll never get hungry
They’ll never get old and grey
You can see their shadows wandering off somewhere
They won’t make it home
But they really don’t care
They wanted the highway
They’re happier there…

Needle buried into the rev limiter. Transmission gears reduced to a pile of loose bearings. Live the dream.