Sure, black socks are on sale at Walmart 4 for $20.

You never have to ask a vegan if they are vegan.

I dunno dude, if an example of hate speech used in such a manner can offend this quickly, maybe don’t sign up for a class with hate speech in the title. It really doesn’t sound like a required course for the general student body, these students picked it and then got upset when the class really did decide to cover the…

As much of a buffoon as this professor sounds like, he’s correct on that point. Making someone uncomfortable is not oppression, and to conflate the two is to make the concept of oppression nearly meaningless. If you don’t want to be confronted with words or concepts that make you uncomfortable, then maybe a class on…

Well, no, my comment history isn’t perfectly neutral. But yeah I do try to not bag on parts of car culture that I don’t subjectively love. If something is objectively bad, then I think it’s fair game.

That’s a real cheap shot.

A fair point

Republican in the front, skinhead in the back.

How often have Jalops complained of people buying crossovers instead of wagons? Jalops also complain of manicured ladies driving in giant Tahoes or Hummers. As a matter of fact, I am also guilty of joining in the fray and point to the superior driving experience from the manual transmission. All are personal judgment…

I see crossovers in the mall all the time, but for some reason Jalops aren’t happy with the existence of crossovers, even though they are used for their intended purpose: family hauler of children and groceries.

I think that was the point of the post. We deride soccer moms for driving crossovers and SUVs in nothing worse than the concrete jungle, and so the poster is doing exactly the same thing with this Raptor - just suggesting that as a daily driver, it sees more mall time than off road time. Same sort of post really, but…

Thank you for posting this. As a long time Jalopnik reader and self certified Jalop (I’ve owned a Miata, Sportwagen TDI, 128i and currently Accord Sport, all stick shift cars), it amazes me how many Jalops can dish it but can’t take it. Seriously, we complain and judge incessantly about how terrible it is for people…

I wish there were more cheap, basic, small trucks (which is exactly why I have a 2003 S10), but I don’t see a reason to hate on the performance models.

Ugh, I agree with your first paragraph but- really? Beta? SJW? You’re annoyed that someone is stereotying you so you respond by . . . stereotyping others?

What about a V12 / V10 supercar that gets 9 mpg - 15mpg?

While he may not be doing it in the right way, his argument is sound. I don’t think that you did anything wrong by stating your thoughts or preferences here, because you didn’t. However, you should probably consider that there are use cases you didn’t think about.

Sports cars are not track cars. One can enjoy spirited driving in just about any road l, even while staying in the limits of the law. But a vehicle like the Raptor has no place on a any road except on its way to the dirt.

You’re right. The Raptor is at least designed for legitimate purpose and I was wrong to lump it in with the Trackhawk. It’s not the Raptors I have a problem with, it’s the people who drive them.

Seeing some of the Raptors “all of the time” is not the same as seeing all of the Raptors all of the time. And I see plenty of Raptors in places that have no desert within a thousand miles.