Just as impressive in its own way was the repair of the original USS Yorktown (CV-5), which took a bomb through the flight deck and into the boiler superheaters at the Coral Sea, along with a near miss. According to some accounts the Japanese actually thought she would sink. Repair estimates ran as high as three…

It’s incredibly frustrating that some PR flak at 3M is able to offer the kind of nuanced, reasoned explanation for their actions while the federal response has continued to be a flailing disaster. I fully expected to read their statement and roll my eyes, but their thinking on supply chains and international health &…

I agree. As soon as I saw LG’s name on it I started laughing. There is a great video from many years ago of them “testing” their new suspension on a C6 that involved them hitting a 4"x4" block of wood bolted down while driving 40 mph. It threw the whole corner of the car in the air, but it survived just fine.

I did mine back in 1979. And in Alabama our tests were conducted by the State Troopers.

Good, fast, cheap — pick any two, or sometimes only one. Let me give you a perspective from someone who works inside the system.

TSD/Navigational rally regulations say that all aux lights need to be wired up that way. It’s the right way to do it imo, there’s no situation where you’d want the auxillary lights on but not your high beams, and it makes it much faster to flip them off when a car shows up coming the other way.

It is not a truck, SUV or crossover. Therefore, sales will be low.

I keep coming back to that Tanak crash thinking about all the Group B footage I’ve seen. If this had been 40 years ago, their fuel tank would have probably ruptured when they hit the tree and exploded on impact. The fact that Tanak was giving interviews today where he seemed annoyed more than anything else is just a…

Driving to swimming in under 10 seconds, impressive.

The US really needs to learn to do these things quietly and with misdirection.  Slamming your dick into an airport just makes martyrs

Yeah, apparently the Quds Force has been categorized as a terrorist organisation for a while. In April of 2019, despite opposition from the CIA and the Department of Defense, it’s even the whole Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that has been categorized as such. The IRGC is a branch of the Iranian armed forces…

What, giving them a martyr to rally around could lead to bad things for the US down the road? Who could have predicted that, eh? I bet there are entire departments of the CIA being fucking livid right now. Just like NOAA, they’re super useful until their facts interfere with the President’s boner.

Why not? Its probably cheaper to buy a “brand new” one still on a dealer lot than it would ever be to build a replica.

Comment more, you hosers. Shout down the lame comments with good ones.

You really can’t emphasize this enough, outside some niche forums (and even those tend to devolve into flame wars pretty quickly) this really is one of the only places on the internet that the comment section is actually a discussion, with our corny jokes and puns thrown in of course ;). I’ve learned so much and seen…

So to mirror what PG was talking about. I just went a read an article on a major website about a non-car related thing. I didn’t fully agree what what was said, but I did see the argument. Then I made a fatal error and went to the comments to see what people thought about that.

I think I may have relayed this story to you at the Jalopnik meet-up in Austin, but I once owned a pink car. The problem was, on account of being colorblind, I didn’t know it for three months.

I have this dream of putting together a car charity/ministry. We’d buy old cars on Craigslist, fix them up, then connect with local organizations to get them to people who need a reliable car for a year or two. People getting out of prison, human trafficking victims, struggling single moms, recovering addicts, etc. In…

They are removable, numskull. Also plenty of people track and drift miatas without a hardtop. Kyle Mohan from formula Drift drives a topples Miata. Lots of stupidity in these comments. Also it doesn’t take much to take a car to track days, which is really the only qualifier for calling a car “track prepped”. If it…