And yet it somehow looks better than their designs. Maybe he’s just upset someone designed something better looking. 

FTFY

My wife’s Volvo S80 has struts that pretend to work right up until the moment you’re elbow deep in the engine bay and the hood slams down on your head. 

Jalopnik is more and more becoming a “breathlessly repeat something we half heard over an intercom as if it is fact” rag.

Sour grapes much?

This thing is very cool. The only disappointment is that the back only seats 2, from outside it looks like there’s room for a rear facing seat where the bar is. 

Quigley 4x4 has some interesting looking vans. Not sure of the pricing though. 

Interesting, hadn’t heard of crosshead engines before. TIL.

Good ass, Jalop Jason.*

... okay. 

“[Women] want to feel safe, they want to be protected, they want to be able to see ahead. The SUV class of cars have attributes that correlate more strongly with what women want,” Sproule told carsales.com.au.

Step Ladder?

Some important details left out of this article which could easily have been included (Hell, Lockie links to this article on the same twitter page linked above):

this still seems a little less rusty than what you normally drag home.

I always wanted to strip one of these and drop in an LS or something. Would make a fun sleeper.

and a seperate twisty knob on the dash for the shitty wipes.

Unless this was just a random passerby, it looks like your hunch was correct about the front of the centipede:

I can’t argue with that, this article just struck me as having some particularly notable problems.

Cool car and good for you for getting into journalism but DAMN do you need an editor. 

Big players like Diamler Trucks, which owns Freightliner, are abandoning their platooning development because, as Martin Daum, head of Diamler Trucks told Trucks.com,