Even when making a 3D render they couldn’t resist the tackiness of putting fake marble vinyl on everything.

You use marble for large expanses because the streaks break up the visual scale, while being close enough in colour and contrast that it isn’t jarring. Marble is associated with being expensive because you build…

I dunno, I read a lot of articles regarding that when it came out and it came down to (within Renault) either we build it and it’s automatic, or we don’t build it (i.e. they have no manual that would fit the packaging and the power). I’m sure glad they chose the former.

Yes, fuck the rich.

SPOILERS: In the post-credits scene, they flash-forward to the kid as an adult in a creepy mask with a siren blaring in the background, and you realise the whole thing has been a prequel to the Purge movies.

I think I might be burned out on apocalypse metaphors for off-road campers. see also: “Raptor killer”, “buy this so I don’t have to”, etc.

It’s genuinely a little weird that the most-adapted scifi writer of the late 20th and early 21st century by Hollywood ended up being Philip K. Dick: a talented and prolific but deeply troubled man with few friends, crippling mental health issues, a long-term methamphetamine abuse problem and an audience for his books…

Movie aside (which I rather liked), it has one of the greatest, most propulsive teaser trailers of all time:

Hey, I just want to pop in and tell people that, if they want to watch a version of the vigilante genre that has pretty cool politics, you could watch 1974's Street Law/Il cittadino si ribella. Franco Nero gets beat up by a stand-in group of Ordine Nuovo neo-fascists, and the police are apathetic to the point of…

Supercharger and a turbo? Sold!

Over the past 40 or so years, our country has deferred maintenance on the road system because taxes bad, gas must be cheap and freedom. We’ve also systematically cut almost all the strings to our safety nets, deregulated everything we could get away with and what we’ve ended up with is a world where honestly, Trucks…

I may be wrong, but shouldn’t she be referred to, if anything other than “racer,” as “Arab-American” and not “Arabic-American?” I think the second form refers to the language (or in other contexts cultural style) rather than the people.

Incidentally "only five inches but it looks huge" was my Tinder bio back in the day.

Could you please keep these opinions to yourself for at least another 2-3 years? I should have garage space available by then to own a 996/986 Porsche, and I feel that the fried-egg sentiment is one opinion that is helping keep those prices at least semi-sane for the time being.

One of the early designs was going to use an F1 engine to power the fuel pump that fed the rocket engine that kicks in after the jet engine runs out of umph.

I love how nicely this plugs into the generic NP/ND comments we get on Jalopnik:

Here’s today’s puzzler: Wealthy Americans are more than willing to spend upwards of $150k on a fast, practical wagon. Why can’t anybody get them to spend $30k on a kinda fast, practical wagon? Is the venn diagram of “people who can afford and buy ultra luxury cars” and “people who like wagons” just a perfect…

495,000 on my 2000 Econoline dually van (E450 running gear all around) with the V10. Bought it from Enterprise with 105,000 miles. It was a plain white van when I bought it, got dualliefied a year after I bought it (after chewing through too many rear tires). Then got it’s extreme makeover around 250k when I realized…

I’ve only seen two in the wild. They are high on my list of greatest automotive masterpieces.

Well do you have flag?