I grew up in VA too and I enjoyed the irony that the state that hosted Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Liberty University, The 700 Club, CBN, (I could go on) embraced a word commonly reserved for gay couples. It’s been the state’s motto off and on since before I was born and I don’t remember anyone ever taking it…

“...but a PA tag is a signal to others that you can’t merge.”

Oregon is by far my favorite. New York is insufferable. It was bad enough when it punched you in the face with that aggressive orange, but now “excelsior”? Only New York would be cocky enough to slap “excelsior” on every car in the state. 

“It’s either traffic forever or tunnels.”

It’s not completely clear if you’re creeped out by the camera, the stranger in your house, or both. To be honest, and I hate to say this, but I’d put more faith in a Walmart employee entering my house than a gig worker contracted by some app, or Amazon. Walmart would likely take responsibility for theft or worse…

At this point I feel like the only thing that separates a luxury car from a grocery getter is how much it costs to maintain. Aside from getting to use the phrase, “I drive a BMW,” I don’t find one particularly more exciting than a loaded Jetta. And no, the R107 absolutely could not have been improved upon, although I…

Context? It’s 2022, man. There’s no such thing as context anymore. People are going to see what they want to see, and the cynical majority wants the TERF lady the be racist and antisemitic, even if it means deconstructing a series of children’s movies aimed at an audience too young to recognize a stereotype whether it…

“Guilt free” and “better than” just mean “more engineered crap.” Sugar and fat aren’t bad for you, and if you know your body and are accustomed to healthy moderation these products will taste like alien chum. The fact that diet culture is a culture proves just how ingrained it is into our society. There’s an…

I moved north in 2004 so I was in Virginia for the famed blizzards of ‘93 and ‘96, and there were plenty of monsters before and after. We definitely had more and bigger storms than I’ve ever seen in the Philadelphia area since I moved here. I think the DC area gets hit with a typically mid-Atlantic climate coupled…

What I meant is that the longtime writers who are still here are still great. The handful of new ones are clickbait oriented or publish slideshows. It probably wasn’t fair of me to judge them on their talent because for all I know the clickbait and slideshows are being assigned to the newbies. As for what’s left on…

I’m right behind you!

I find it ironic that cars driven by environmentalism rely so heavily on screens. It might not feel as modern, but the greenest dashboard would present largely analog. Hear me out: when your Toshiba flatscreen goes bad, you don’t take it to a TV/VCR repair store. You throw it out and buy a new one. Repairable…

Jalopnik’s latest round of hires are all from the BuzzFeed School of Journalism and couldn’t tell you the difference between news and clickbait. Gone are the days of Doug DeMuro and numbered are those of Torchinski and, you know, writers who write things we actually want to read. Sadly we’re all here because…

I was wondering the same thing, however the DC metro area is known for some historically bonkers snowstorms and there’s no excuse for their piss-poor response to this one. 

“...paying Ichabod’s Cranium and others to place positive stories about the company on various websites, including Huffington Post...”

Great point. Drivers also have access to local weather reports from plenty of apps on the same device that’s providing directions, but they’re ignoring them in lieu of a mapping app. I’m no Google cheerleader, but what more should Google Maps be expected to do?

For starters, this isn’t a free service. Like most of the internet, Google isn’t just relying on our feedback to improve its interface, it’s primarily relying on it to sell us shit. It’s not going to build what it can’t monetize.

You could get a lot more for $4500 than vehicular heartburn but it seems suspiciously low for something so quirky and well maintained. Instagram influencers (ugh) are throwing five figures at rusty Reagan era shit boxes, and if the Le Car somehow was forgotten it won’t be for long. If it was in PA I’d snag it for…

A guy once took me to Shake Shack for a date, and on the walk to a bar for a drink afterwards I had to stop at my gym “to pick something up,” i.e. wreck the toilet. This is a great way to introduce international travelers to a New York icon that makes the cheesesteak taste like Beef Wellington, but the bombs that will…

I don’t know what his bill of sale looks like, but there should be a line that asks “Will the buyer receive the vehicle free from any loans or liens?” If the salesman lied on the bill of sale, the salesman is guilty of fraud. However, if the salesman answered that honestly, I hate to say it, it’s really the…