“I can’t imagine any carmaker trying to get away with something like this today”

I should’ve stopped reading the first time Erin offered excuses for criminal behavior. But I kept reading and found more of it.

This weird apologist take is just bad. These people are thieves, stealing things from OTHER people who legitimately bought something despite the poor economy. This isn’t a stick-it-to-bezos thing. This is impacting folks like you and me who work to pay their bills, then get their hard-earned shit stolen by someone who…

Respect. 

They weren’t trying to slow the cars down, they were trying to aim to clean up the dirty air to allow cars to follow closer to each other through the turns

“we don’t know anything yet about how these cars drive in the real world, but the rules change didn’t work”

so this is more zero information speculation. we won’t have any real idea how well they can follow until they run on track in real conditions.

there are several things they could have done that would actually have…

We are just going to gloss over that this directly contradicts the statement from Lando... that you even directly quoted?

I wasn’t aware that rolling a stop sign was a life saving maneuver lol 

It’s also not a plug-in hybrid, or a plug-in car of any sort. The hydrogen Mirai is a bizarre choice to illustrate this story with.

umm, no.

You really don’t understand why someone with $100K to spend on a car might choose a Mercedes Benz rather than gamble on the first car from a startup? The 500+ mile range Lucid is $140K to start by the way.

“Another dumb click baity headline... In what universe is the everest better than the bronco? It neither looks better or performs better. Besides having more seats, than the bronco, it literally has 0 advantage over the bronco. Looks or performance the bronco is much better.”

Umm, fixed roof? Lower price? Quiet interior? Better fuel economy? Seats 7? ...so yeah, zero advantage.  

I feel like this is a clarion call to good writers to write more and to providers of content to pay those writers. As someone who works in PR, I know how easy it is to get darn near anything published by doing the writing and providing the content for free.

A bad take on Jalopnik?  Unheard of.

Good god this is a bad take...

If you think F1 is no longer a sport because of questionable officiating decisions, I'm afraid you don't watch many sports.

Hell yeah! Did I take my wife on our first real date in my 2-yo Altima? Fuck no, we went to the county fair in my rusty ‘85 Caprice.

The vast majority of people on this site have never driven on a track, and they’ll never get around to it. At the traction limit in a corner you want predictable throttle, power doesn’t matter. If you don’t have telepathic throttle response, that’s one less input you can rely on to balance the car. Racing drivers put…

My friend put a turbo on his BRZ.