Basically any new cars. You Corvette fresh off the dealer lot is not special. If we want to see one we can go to the dealership ourselves or just wait to see one rolling down the road. I remember when the HHR and Prowler first came out and some people actually entered them into car shows. It was pretty lame to say the…

I’m probably going to get a lot that won’t agree with me, but I’m just going to throw it out there.

If you think that was “dangerously slow” (a U.S. spec 451 hit 60 in about 11-12 seconds), you’ve never driven a truly slow car. My old Mercedes 240D hit 60 in 23 seconds, and it had the “faster” manual transmission. Now THAT is actually slow.

Or... you could stop being a prick about people’s personal likes.

Good lord, is that lead image a car or a 14 year old wannabe youtuber’s room?

Ragebait will definitely get you clicks, but well thought of articles can too. I remember Jalopnik used to have some really good interview articles and investigate articles. Can we get back to that? I feel like the only reason I'm still here is the comment section and it's a hot or miss if that is even working.

You are just wrong. ANY extra interior lighting is going to cause your pupils to dilate more than they should and diminish your night vision. This is just science and not up for debate. A car interior should look like this at night, and I’d even say that they have the gauge brightness a bit to high even here.

Build the inexpensive, low-tech car.

The industry is focused on making money (duh!) at the expense of giving customers more choices/options. As a customer, I’d like the ability to order just the options I want (instead of entire “packages”). So, given how things have changed (mostly due to Covid) and are continuing to change (due to AI and automated…

Instead of regulating the car companies for emissions, regulate the customer.

The Cybertruck is basically the coupe SUV ie. BMW X6 of pickup trucks. You didn’t buy it for space, utility, off roading, towing, work, ergonomics etc. It is purely a styling exercise.

Pops and bangs

Oddly satisfying? On my Wrangler 4xe in electric mode you can still run through the gears in Manual mode, and it’s so neat to listen to the pitch of the electric motor rise and fall as you go through the gears.

Meanwhile, for a Mitsubishi mirage

Adaptive cruise control is shit and has no business being on a sports car.  Porsche should be applauded for not forcing it on everyone.

Every technological advancement brings challenges. When the first ICE vehicles arrived there wasn’t an efficient fuel distribution system, people hated the noise and pollution, the cars scared the ubiquitous horses, people got hit more often than they did by those horses, people in cars were injured and killed far…

We have our safety regulations so backwards. We regulate personal safety but care little about mass safety. i.e. you can’t drive that, YOU could be killed in an accident? Versus - Of course you can tow a 40 foot trailer with your 12 foot tall truck with no prior experience because YOU will be okay if you crash.

Hertz is pretty lousy. Last year, I did a one-way rental to get back home after my just-purchased ‘96 Jaguar XJ12 died two miles from where it started (because of course it did). The rental in question was a pre-refresh version of the current Chevy Equinox, with hard miles on it.

To be fair, nobody is ever going to make a headline that says “absolutely nothing went wrong with my rental, I loved the car and the service was flawless”.

This.