I have a personal hot take on 3rd gear. Here’s the thing with me - I support all the usual Transit Memes for New Urbanist Teens measures. Cities should serve their citizens. Walkability and density should be prioritized over roads and parking. Resources and entertainment should be well-distributed into the urban…

*shrug* My experience with Carvana was completely and utterly adequate.

That’s why I ended up getting my daily through Carvana. I was extremely busy at the time with both work and life things, and decided I didn’t have the mental overhead to go around to dealerships and play hardball. Maybe I “overpaid” a thousand or two on what should have been a $10-12K Caravan, for the convenience…

Please let it just be an electric appendage to a Chevy Express.

Ahoy, fellow Georgiastani. Strange how it works, huh? No matter how long I lived up north, it never felt like home. I’m back in Atlanta now, which is where I grew up.

“I moved so my vans could have a better life” (private drive and yard, garage, tools, no winter salt, etc....) 😀

“How do you reconcile never wanting to live somewhere with never feeling like you made the most of it?” is the way I feel about Boston. I stayed there after going to school because it was easy. It was easy to stick around for grad school, for startups, for consulting work. But I hated the place for the cold, expense,…

There’s literally a dozen of us! They can’t arrest us a.......

And yet it’s incredibly hard to resist because it always sounds good to most people, and only a small subset would care enough to be vocal or to push back.

Dude, Delica Inflation is so real. Even with the L400 generation becoming legal (well, 49 and a half state legal, perhaps?), the L300 generation prices are still insane.

This is a pretty classic case of Bureaucratic Double-Down. What’s happening now is they realized they fucked up, but are too prideful to backtrack. It’s easier for the government entity to go “Well it’s because we say so”. The only remedy right now is for some Delica enthusiast to sue the state, and then the facts…

Like, at least a few of them, I think.

Just you wait, once I own the property....

Two of them. I’m trying to make it three, but am constrained by my own sense of morality and shame.

It sounds like the time is prime for me to become a Jalopnik writer and cover the world of terrible vans and where to buy them.

I didn’t even know this product existed until the first photos of the amberlamps. The house I’m currently in has a drive-up in the side yard to the detached garage/shop building. But, it’s also where the property drains on that side, and so it gets muddy and soft. Something like this would be great for making an…

I’m big on exposed fasteners, probably because I’m big on serviceability. I also am in the school of “Exposed fasteners don’t necessarily mean looks or acts cheap”.  This is a good take

Wait, we’re going back to cab-over? Sign me up!

Torchlopnik and Tracylopnik are really what set Jalopnik apart from other car websites. They need to embrace the wacky, offbeat, and crusty. I can go anywhere for “Industry News” press release riff raff and racing coverage.

I keep offering to write about terrible vans and they never reply to my emails. Based on Rory’s…

Yes and no. They’re certainly “alt-classic” and turn heads, and are fundamentally made of Ford truck parts, of which there are more than there are atoms in the universe.

However, the Econoline and really all legacy full-size vans are legendary for being service nightmares because of how packed full of gear the engine…