Dirtbag dealers are one thing, but one HUGE takeaway here is that Kia Motors North America isn’t willing to step in and help would-be buyers, even as they know their dealers are shady. That’s not a good look.

“I regret that I wasn’t as articulate as I should have been in conveying this thought.”

Dude, they said it was a Cruze Premium.

Nice write up. As an aside, I really enjoy the column more since you took it over from that Graverobber guy. Man, was he an asshole.

“It’s got nothing to do with the alt-weekly mentioned in the story [anymore].”

“And in food news, you’ve had enough to eat today...”

I’d like to hear more about this, please. Feel free to go into detail.

Had one of these, with the non-16v Digifant FI engine. Awful. The Digifant, I mean. Loved the car but that injection was crap. How does an FI system flood, for God’s sake? A mechanic friend showed me how to unplug the power wire to the FI when it flooded, start it and let it run until it starved out, then plug the…

And a regular guest spot on Fox and Friends.

Well, it sounds like somebody is definitely racist against possums, anyway.

I KNEW Donald Trump was a Jalopnik reader!

I dd’d a ‘68 Beetle for a while in college that had been brush-painted with barn-red latex. It looked like shit but held up shockingly well.

They really are awful. If they treat their employees this poorly, it’s no wonder they seem so miserable when you have to deal with them. Which I refuse to do anymore.

Trying to figure out how a 6'7" QB has pass after pass batted down was going to make my brain hurt all year anyway.

Preach.

Molay really PUMPS MY NADS.

Just FYI: True or not, saying “shit happens” when discussing dead children is not typically a great look.

Is that also from the ad? Like, included under the driver’s seat?

There not good writers but there classy.