I’m in this market now. Had a Model3 for an overnight test drive, and it sold me on the Polestar. The Polestar is a couple of thousand more ($52,500 after tax credit vs. $50k for the 3), but you get a (IMO) nicer car.

If you ONLY mean how cluttered the interior is, sure.

If you strip it down to make it cheaper, won’t it just seem even worse when lined up against the Model 3 Performance?

Underrated sidebar to this conversation; how utterly absurd it is that the new Silverado is so big and tall that being broadsided by something with a nose as high, flat, and square as a Challenger is enough to roll it over. Absolute lunacy.

There is a fantastic book about this topic called “Strong Towns” by Charles Marohn. While it’s not specifically about how racism is built into our infrastructure, it does highlight how American infrastructure has turned cities into a cycle of problematic under-investment, while putting funding towards dead-end…

“You never want to make general statement in journalism...”

100% honest story with zero bullshit. Thank you for writing this.

Let me just add that the ad situation in Jalopnia is getting out of hand. As I was typing for my other comment, suddenly a popup thrust itself onto my screen, front and center, like an unsolicited dick pic. And I couldn’t comment on hardly anything last week because ads wouldn’t scroll or shrink out of the way to…

“Sporty as a three legged French buildog. “

I had one of these. 1993 model. It was a pile. The turn signal would occasionally turn the radio volume up. The 4matic system was toast. It was as sporty as a three legged French bulldog. Partly the car in question and I shouldn’t blame the lot of them but honestly I just didn’t like it as much as my W126s. And it…

I have an idea I’m considering pitching locally and how fellow jalops would react.

Serbian anti-texting PSA from a while back:

/waves enthusiastically from a responsible distance

I think that’s part of the draw for his channel. There’s enough professional drivers out there doing reviews and he’s not about lap times, more the experience of the car and deep dives into the weirdness of even boring cars.

I know the herbs did away with visible tags, but I gotta figure this would have been filed to: $kaybait

YES, PLEASE!!!! 

so I just pick up the Pulitzer or it’ll be delivered or

That’s different, she’s just keeping the gas farm-fresh

I see your lady washing a car with gas and raise another lady putting gas in plastic bags:

I propose crowd-sourcing traffic violations. Here’s how: every vehicle gets a paintball gun. Drivers who identify poor driving behavior can shoot the offending driver’s vehicle with one paintball, like a downvote. Once your vehicle accumulates sufficient paintball downvotes, you lose your license.