So I'm not the only one making this assumption.

10,000% correct.  We all read the articles, but the comments are where we really want to go, and the herbs know how to milk their readerbase 

It’s pretty typical “I don’t have anything else to write about” Erik fodder.  You get used to it after awhile.  There’s literally nothing to be gleaned from all the words he typed.

Ha ha, made you click!

Jesus, I have to go back to the homepage and click the comments icon just to get them to load. Cant even remember what I was going to say. How does Kinja get even worse???

For one thing not everybody is financially hardened by the pandemic. Those who are not will take advantage of the better interest rates to purchase more car/truck. I don’t see how that is a bad thing if they want more truck, more tech, bigger engine etc. A lot of people here, readers and writers alike, seem to feel…

Get this, a lot of Americans actually do like pickup trucks and are sick of the automotive journalists trying to convince us we should not. 

Dude...the editors don’t know the difference between a turbocharger and a supercharger. They HATE TRUCKS. Hell they HATE AMERICA.

Great, I appreciate your input. Though if people only bought what they needed instead of what they wanted, there would only be small sedans, minivans and stripped out work trucks. No luxury cars, exotic cars or sports car would exist, because who needs those things.

Okay so we can be mad about people with trucks because its not “necessary” But sports cars aren’t “necessary” Track cars aren’t necessary. Convertibles aren’t necessary. Where do you draw the line? Its a slippery slope just let people enjoy things.  

“Drive free or die” has become tongue-in-cheek, I guess.

The full-size pickup driver can’t see whats directly in front of, or behind him.

But why go through the hassle of needing to go pick up a truck and then bring it back when you’re done when you can just drive your own damn truck you’re already driving?

Hard to take comments like yours seriously when you presume sooo much. It is interesting though that you appear to get upset when leanings are exposed or people seem to not be friendly to your politics.

Well excuse me. I didn’t know Jalopnik officially decided to suspend automotive content in favor of lightly veiled politics. Sounds like you need a safe place if a little light shined into the corners of The Morning Shift upset you so.

Another Large City based Jalopnik writer who doesn’t drive a car every day (even before the Pandemic) trying to tell the rest of the country what vehicles we should be buying, which based on his reviews is based largely on his single, cat owner, living in an apartment with no street parking lifestyle.

The trend I hope that gets left behind is me coming to this site. I’ve been doing it for so long and the habit is so ingrained that I barely notice I am typing “bl” into my browser to visit the old blog.Jalopnik.com. Jalopnik isn’t what it used to be. It used to be a site for car enthusiastes, now it’s more often than…

I come here for the unique, funny and interesting takes on the automotive world, not political themed news. Now tell me I’m wrong on today’s Morning Shift undercurrent.

You’re right.

You don’t know jack shit about what things are going to look like in 18 months, so how about you stop pretending you do?