Or your phone falls in a river and you don’t notice until you’re 15 minutes downstream? Not that I speak from personal experience or anything. ;-)

I wouldn’t.

This will be my very last post for Jalopnik, and I want to leave you all with a smile and maybe some hope for the future.

Any pliers with the “blood blister” section between the handles. I’ve never used or seen anyone use that part of the pliers, so as far as I can tell it exists solely to hurt you when the pliers slip and some piece of skin inevitably ends up crushed between the teeth.

“other than Tesla, I saw few foreign brands applying advanced smart technology properly.”

I heard a term recently that I’ve adopted for situations like this: Thoosies, which I have defined to mean “toxic enthusiasts”. You know, the people who claim to be fans of things but then take every opportunity to shit on them.

Did you have a specific objection to these tires or are you just being grumpy to be grumpy?

Nobody learned their lesson when MyFordTouch and CUE got destroyed for their stupid touch controls and that was like 10 years ago. Every manufacturer is arrogant enough to think that they’re the one who is going to solve the unsolvable problem of touch controls in cars.

My house value has gone up by 40% in 5 years. Which is nice and all

Now you tell me this, 5 years after I was there. :-P

Those stated cycles are almost certainly under ideal conditions, which a 20 year old car that spent at least part of its life in sunny California would not represent. Heat kills batteries, as the Prius community could tell you. You’re much better off buying an old Prius that lived in the northern climes than one from…

The lines on this car are just unsettling from every angle.

I mean, just imagine how snappy this thing would be to top up if it could take advantage of 150 kW speeds, like plenty of modern EVs do.

Dear Bob,

Funny, my answer was going to be the previous gen Malibu. Had one as a rental and the lack of padding on the seat bottom made my butt go numb within minutes.

like embracing parts with small cosmetic flaws

Your opinion about touching other people’s car without their permission is bad, but otherwise I generally enjoyed your writing. As a result, I’m going to save my “Eat shit!” for someone who really deserves it:

Better to guarantee his neighbors than leave it up to chance.

Every time I read something like this I have to ask myself where everyone went. I get restaurant workers bailing on the industry once they got a taste of the outside world, but did pilots do the same thing? Maybe they all retired after the stock market went crazy for a couple of years? Or are the airlines just…

I don’t make a habit of naming my cars, but I do have two right now that I named: