Get rid of the hot rodders. Seriously. The Hot August Nights crowd has destroyed car television in America. In fact, forget America entirely - let’s do a show about tuning and mods in other countries.

I am so conditioned to be drought-aware now, I saw this thing and went BUT NO THE WATER IT’S GOING EVERYWHERE SO MUCH WASTAGE and became slightly physically uncomfortable.

Gotta say, Andrew’s killing it so far in the Jalopnik Video department - another great watch. I have no interest in a truck or off-roading and yet I am really starting to love TruckYeah!. Keep doing what you’re doing.

I’ve always viewed the terminology as being in regard to intent. And by that definition a car accident is an accident - no one intended for it to happen. I certainly don’t believe the woman who hit me doing 35MPH+ while I was stopped did it on purpose. She didn’t have it out for me. She wasn’t suicidal. It was an…

Pretty much this. Especially in the regions where those “next billion” are. People in many of those markets are so dependent on cellular access for the internet that they’re willing to deal with multiple SIM cards and highly restrictive plans on congested, spotty networks to get it. These people have no interest in an…

I think we’ve discovered the honey badger of cars.

That car is clearly more beat on than the one in the ad.

Yes, Obama is literally doing the equivalent of handing Czechoslovakia over to Hitler. Your comment really added some valuable information to the discourse here.

It’s truly amazing that a company which requires appointments for service will refuse you service if you don’t make an appointment.

Hey man, I’ll take the tube if it means I get to LAY THE FUCK DOWN. Seriously, I’ll take “slightly higher chance of dying in the event of an accident but actually able to asleep” over “agonizing 10 hours in slightly-reclined chair from hell” any day of the week.

That and cars are not goods generally purchased outright. Financing a vehicle has a disproportionate effect in terms of % of income going toward monthly payments, because most people do not budget a car payment in terms of their total wages or savings - they budget it in terms of the amount of disposable income they…

Kernel panics (or whatever the proper term here is) are pretty common on iOS. Safari was a huge source of them for a while there on the original iPad Air - it constantly threw me to the white apple of death (which I am now dubbing a WAOD). Happens on my Air 2 occasionally, as well, and I think the frequency of said…

Totally right. But it is a hilarious observation nonetheless.

Dirt track modified. They’re still pretty popular at local tracks all around the US, I went to our local track for a couple years almost every weekend when I was a kid - my neighbor was the flagman. Modified was definitely the “cream of the crop” class at our track because it was the most notable championship that…

That said, turning it into a track machine is probably the most noble thing you can do to a 350Z. They are terrible street cars and that design has aged so poorly. Kudos for at least doing something useful with it instead of letting it die an agonizing stance nation death.

I, too, find the discussion around this ridiculously childish. So many people are keen to play the “find the liability” game because lawyers have been positing hypotheticals about this for years, and now that it’s finally here everybody’s going crazy. The “save one child or kill a family of five” robot car example is…

As always, the aftermarket is there for people who want it. I just don’t think your average Miata buyer (which, Jalopnik readers are far from average) cares about the power all that much.

Mmmm, this doesn’t exactly sit right with me. Here’s the thing: in the “old days,” yes, there was real journalism with real journalists(TM) happening left and right and I’m guessing if you didn’t focus and buckle down on the news and just did whatever-the-fuck, you were screwed in terms of long-term career options…

As someone who also reviews products professionally in a journalist-y context, the fact is that this sentiment is 90% people just not liking things which are unfamiliar to them. I’ve not driven nearly as many cars as the average auto journalist (maybe 25-30 in my whole - short - life), but I have used probably over…

Accurate, because after owning this thing for 12 months, you will probably be effectively deaf. This car is Harley-Davidson levels of exhaust-obnoxious. Stop it, Mercedes.