“Well hello Reginald, glad to see you’ve come to your senses and acquired a Maybach. It really is just soooo nice to be insulated from the rigors of common living and...oh...you got the 8-cylinder version. I see. How...thrifty of you. You’ll have to excuse me, my jet awaits. I’m sure I’ll see you at the aerodrome in…

Worked in the auto industry, auto auctions always employ older fellas as drivers, and a LOT of them are terrible. I truly hope this was a “medical event” outside of everyone’s control, but it could just as likely be an old guy confusing the gas for the brake.

Try taking away $128 of that officer’s pay for the month and we’ll find out how he/she really feels about how much it is.

I understand that there will be a certain minimum cost of entry for any auto manufacturer to get into the market, but can someone explain it to me in a few sentences why Tesla, who I still have doubts about, was able to take a $450m loan and turn it into a multi-model company whose vehicles sell for over $100k with…

Best/worst = 1959 Chevy Apache 3200. I was 18 when I got it in early 2006, it had 400ish hp out of an overbored 327 SBC that my uncle’s friend had dropped in it when he stole it one weekend. 4speed manual that was sticking through a sawzall’ed hole in the floor. 1st was a granny gear. 4th topped out at 70mph. It got…

I used math.

I was under 18 at the time and out past curfew (1am), driving to do some stupid shit like buy cigarettes. I pull onto an office park access road that cut a stupidly long no-turn-on-red light out of my drive and drove at or around the speed limit. As I go around the curve, I see the blue and whites light up…

Is there a difference between electronically signing a contract and an E-Contract? I left the car business a little while ago but we did electronic signing to make everything easier, but everything eventually got printed on paper and handed to the buyer, just without fresh pen ink on the signature portions of the…

Forgive my disbelief that a “technically representative” production spec CTR lapped the ‘Ring only 4 seconds slower than a manual transmission Giulia QV.

I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t see it being real.

“The inaccurate and sensationalistic view of our technology...is exactly the kind of misinformation that threatens to harm consumer safety.“

This sentence applies to pretty much everyone involved. The plaintiffs, Tesla themselves, Kool-Aid drinkin’ fanbois, and detractors.

It’s a fantastic futuristic technology that is…

Agree wholeheartedly, especially the scratched/dented first bike bit. I would say it’s imperative to get something that’s been down before so appearance sits low on the list of things you’re thinking about while riding.

Despite my longtime fandom, I’m ignorant as to the specifics of how F1 drivers’ salaries are paid. Are they paid like NFL athletes, where their agreed-upon base pay is portioned out in game checks, and if they’re not on the active roster they don’t receive that game check? Or is it a year round salary that they…

Certainly a crazy pipe dream, but if he has fun at Indy I wonder if he could get a chance to drive in NASCAR, for instance at Watkins Glen?

PEOPLE don’t hate the idea. POLITICIANS hate the idea.

My experience is 100% anecdotal but goes against this study completely. My experience is in the Columbus, OH area.
I previously was living in a zip code where there was a fairly even mix of races, mostly industrial rather than residential, but with a number of apartment complexes with a wide range of income brackets…

Daily on /r/askcarsales:

“My wife and I leased a Chevy Malibu 14 months ago but we just had a baby. I’ve been looking at rolling that lease into a Honda Pilot because we need more space and utility. I’m not sure I like the idea of my monthly payment going from $300 to $700, is there any way to lower this?”

“Yes, learn…

If they make a wagon in GS trim with a manual with big brakes and shit, Jalopnik might explode.

How many minutes until those steering wheel and shifter inserts turn a healthy shade of Stadium Mustard Brown?

I worked with a former flight attendant, and according to her, #6 shouldn’t even have to be a rule. As she put it, “all we should have to do is tell people that we never wash the floors on these planes, and people shit and piss themselves, puke, and blast snot all over the place on a regular basis. Airplane floors…

Credit should still go to the Taurus and Impala as police vehicles, especially because despite being well maintained, 200k miles on them is probably equivalent to much more on any other vehicle due to the incredible amount of idle hours put on those engines.

James May’s Rolls Royce Silver Shadow from the India Special deserves an hono(u)rable mention at least.