Add a little stabilization and payload capacity to something that's been around for decades, make them close to idiot proof, and suddenly we have an epidemic on our hands!

otherwise extremists

Sounds like the Ninja 250 effect but amplified. Sign me up!

Bro, do you even Red Key?

Did you guys get to hear the Hellcat over at the Dodge display at WGI this weekend? I had to walk over to Ford and stare at a C-Max until the semi went away...

Doing hillbilly stuff in normal cars is great fun. I've followed the bro-est of bro trucks around in the Legacy and you really only need to stop for mud pits. Non-technical trails are overrated.

Jalopnik's fearless editor-in-chief Matt Hardigree is going to be on Bloomberg at 9:15 (watch it here) to talk General Motors. Every time someone says "recall," you have to talk like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

First Gen Focuses... the horror... the horror.

this comment everything wrong with the world.

Oh shit, that is awesome. I'll be around Saturday and Sunday, probably rocking an Orlove'd shirt because Appropriate Race Attire.

All the more reason to collect cars that guzzle gas and fart awesome. Because there will always be that asshole that will empty their bank account just to be "that guy".

So what you're saying is... someone's job is to do controlled tractor burnouts all day?

I've dealt with shitty spectators and aggressive residents while marshaling and you're absolutely right, it's always an incredibly selfish dickweed of a person. I could hardly care less about their personal health, I'm all for making your own choices no matter how bad, but the consequences for the rally, the drivers,…

"Sorry Officer, my pace-notes must have been wrong. You mean this isn't a flat into crest zone? What's a miles per hour?"

Came for the Yakkity Sax, left satisfied. Thank you good sir.

I'm now using those hand signs in all future conversations about parallel and series wiring.

#NotAllPilots

I realized a few months ago when NY finally thawed out that my girlfriend's Beige Prius DDing neighbor has a beautiful black Roadster hidden in his garage. Hopefully this could be the icebreaker that I can use to get a quick test drive, I've tried bringing the car up before but the poor guy seems pretty oblivious that…

That's bloody brilliant.

I wish more consumer products would adhere to the IP rating system, it's more of an electronics industry thing but it would be really useful for a product like that.