My Facebook feed is filled with shit like this. Even if I play whack-a-mole to remove this stuff they keep on showing up. The CCP desperately wants us to think they are anything other than what it is: A brutal, authoritarian regime that keeps its population under its thumb. 

Exactly how have we been overtaken? Show me where China has sent rovers to Mars. They haven’t. Instead China sends has a bunch of badly outdated rockets that use toxic hypergolic fuels which then re-enter uncontrolled, landing on villages or whatever else happens to be in the way. Meanwhile, as much as I hate Musk,…

So what does he want? Even less safety at his already shitty factories? Whatever.

I told myself something. If trump wins and he starts up with that “project 2025" shit? If he gets to break laws and get away with it then we should follow his example. Pass bullshit laws? Ignore em’. And if enough of us do it they can’t…

All of my family members who smoked eventually died of lung cancer or emphysema and so I too am very wary of that sort of thing. There has not been any government funded research on pot but so far there doesn’t seem to be a connection between smoking it and cancer. And that is if you smoke it. I don’t smoke but…

And as usual the everyday factory floor workers, the office workers, janitors, parts suppliers, etc etc will pay the price for the mistakes that upper level management and execs failed to address. VW has been building pretty sub-par vehicles for years. People still bought them because they were at least a little bit…

Nothing wrong with that. I didn’t smart using it until I was in my late 30's when California legalized and. That was in 2016, Trump had won and everything sorta’ sucked for me mentally. Its now available in so many forms. Now I use a tiny vape pen. There are some studies that suggest young people shouldn’t use it…

Yes they do. Times infinity. I win.,

Sorry but these look like badge-swapped Rivian vehicles. Both of them. 

That happened over 150 years ago an has nothing to do with why China bans pot. Its more that the CCP seeks complete and total control of it population and they’ll be damned if anyone gets high...

This is so fucking stupid. First of all, the CCP has been turning a blind eye and probably even willfully allowing fentanyl to be exported to the US.

But the bigger discussion is about pot. Should you smoke or use it when driving or operating machinery? Nope. But the same is true with alcohol, which is perfectly…

Yes. A happy medium. On one hand it has 4 wheels and seats. On the others its a VAG product and will be a pain in the ass and be in the shop a lot before the 50k mark.

Heard Jalopnik got sold. I assume as a result the comments section will soon be closed. Thanks for all of the fun and stuff over the years.  Many who started here are now over at the Autopian, which has become what this site used to be. Maybe the new owners will “get” that selling ads first and content a distant…

Its cheap, sure. A friend of mine owned one of these. It was in the shop. A lot. And it got full sized truck-like fuel economy too. I guess its cheap enough but not for me. ND.

So bottom line- the only reason to buy one of these is because of the exterior styling. Great. I guess the only good thing is that as expensive as these are, not many will buy them so you won’t get as sick and tired of them as quickly as everyone got tired of seeing PT Cruisers and more recently, new Broncos.
 
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1st gear:
This is what happens when you go from an automotive company to a holding company.

I saw this same shit happen decades ago when I worked at one of the big box home improvement stores and later a mom and pop lumberyard for a few years after I graduated college and moved to California when the dot-com imploded (…

This guy is a dipshit. I don’t make as much as he does but pretty good. But I also want to retire as soon as I can as well.  And the job market is super shitty right now so one would be wise to be socking and investing it away instead of buying some stupid ass car.

This was after trump ( He doesn’t deserve to have a capitalized name) promised them both water and buses back to their cars. He left and nothing happened. So instead of taking it out on that fat worthless fuckstain they go after a bus driver.  Fucking cowards.

And.... Disney probably has just as many lawyers as they do animators. I don’t think I would be putting that image up here.

I grew up in the rural south and have spent the last 2 decades in California. What I see when I go back is that a lot of people- almost entirely white people- living in rural areas- now see themselves as “victims” per what they watch on their one-sided media sources. They seriously think Trump is some sort of Messiah…

My wife just got back from PA. Her home town is 45 mins outside of Philly. A LOT of old people live there. It was, according to her, a 50/50 split between trump and Harris. But when they drove through Scranton it was FULL ON Trump. PA is a weird state. It has large cities and lots of economically depressed rural…