C.O.T.D.

This is an awful lot like training an elephant to dance the ballet. As it pirouettes and jetes around the stage you are flabbergasted by its elephantine grace and the ponderous way it sails through the air. Never mind that it is an elephant. It is dancing.

That is nothing to admire.

Data is for people who lack conviction.

I think the rating system is backward here. Zero Hyperloops should indicate the highest probability of coming to fruition.

No great comment thread is complete without a Saab story.

Musk is directly to blame for unrealistic predictions of Model 3 production volume.

I keep saying it - Musk is an ideas guy (and a pretty smart one, at that) - but he’s not the person to lead a company from “cool startup idea” to “routine production”.

We thank you for your kind comment dated 12/15/17 and and have pleasure to enclose herewith a star just for you:

From now on I am starting all of my email corresponces with “Thank you for your kind letter dated XX/XX/XX...”

Notice the Texas plates, 95% sure these are flooded vehicles from Harvey.

That’s cause Jalopnik has been invaded by hipster Philistines. They have probably already calculated that you can buy eleventeen v6 mustangs for the price of this beaut.

Murdered out is all black including well everything.

I’m not sure that phrase means what you think it means...

Murdered out? You mean black?

Glad I’m not the only one who thought that. And then I was like, what company is selling detergent with animal farts?

“No detergents that contain animal fats”

An older A6 is a masochists car. You will never love it more than the day you get rid of it. Lovely car on the odd blue supermoons when it is working. On the other hand, if someone steals it you will send them a thank you note. Replace a thermostat, literally remove the front of the car, replace water pump, timing…

What color do they use for the air-cooled sarcasm injectors?

I had an ex who told me a story about backing out of her garage, and into her ex’s *parked* car. She told me that it was his fault for parking there.