Welcome to the greys. 

Sinema’s net worth 2018- $32,500. Sinema’s net worth 2021- $1,000,000.

I could pop rivet on a piece of diamond plate. But I know it’s down there and that bothers me. 

Owen- please ungrey this guy. If Jalopnik is going to continue to run bike content (and I’m good with that) this guy has depth. And he defended you politely. I had forgotten about cross chaining a bike intentionally to get the wheel off. I’ve had only 1X setups for the last 11 years.

Toyota needs to put Al-Atiyah in a hydrogen powered HiLux and get their own rules. That’ll teach Audi. Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Aramco, ran a hydrogen powered truck this year. It didn’t win, but it finished. It got very little attention outside of a Red Bull Dakar Daily segment. Aramco has plans to…

There is nothing wrong with the long-forgotten simplicity of the six speed cogset, says the guy with 11 gears out back. However, if you’re going to show the glory of the six at least take a photo where you haven’t cross-chained it.

I went with the local 4x4's recommendation for a replacement rear bumper on my Wrangler. About six months into driving around with it I noticed that the bumper had a cutout of an Iron Cross. WTF? I went on the bumper’s website and there’s all sorts of disclaimers about how firefighters use the symbol and it’s not…

Good one Mercedes, enjoyed the read. VW knows how to make an offroad electric beast if they want to. Three Audi E-trons just finished the Dakar with a few stage wins thrown in. Excellent first effort. Even if the rear wheels kept falling off and shock dampers breaking. If VW made an offroad capable ID.4 that just…

Having resorted to the screw driver method twice in my life I am very thankful to Jeep (Wrangler here) for putting the fitler up top in an easy to reach and replace area. It is a joy to change out compared to my XJ and any other car I’ve ever owned.

Quintero should be out of the Dakar. He didn’t finish a stage. But for ASO’s new Joker Rule (Dakar Experience) he would have been done. He raced an entirely different race than the rest of his competitors since he wrecked his diffs because he has only cared about winning stages. It’s easier to win when you have…

Followup RE: the second incident. The Stewards penalized De Villiers 5 hours for running over the bike. Toyota cannot be very happy. GdV admitted they got the signal warning them of the downed bike, but could not see it as it was hidden behind the crest of the dune. GdV also admitted their warning light was on the…

My 1995 full suspension Litespeed was state of the art. The basic linkage design is still pretty much the norm, albeit with vastly improved shocks and pivots. Rescuing this unicorn Unicoi is a marvelous feat. Personally I would have gone with the butane freeze the mechanism and smash it with a hammer route, but he got…

I never went anywhere in Alaska in the winter without a -20 sleeping bag. I now carry a satellite tracking rescue beacon. Doesn’t hurt to put a tow strap in your car so someone else can pull you out of a ditch. I’m happy to winch out anyone who is in a ditch, but I make them attach the hook and warn them it’s probably…

Villiers is being vilified on at least one of the Dakar forums for the incident with the Chilean. Villiers claims he had room to go around, but a concealed rock threw him to the left hitting the rider. No one is buying that including ASO. In the second incident the Moroccan dumped his bike over the crest of a dune and…

I tend to avoid the Magadan-Novosibirsk route this time of year.

There’s a startup company with vans and trucks loaded with batteries. They drive around and charge you up wherever you are, for a subscription fee of course and an app on your phone. You run out of battery somewhere in the Nevada desert it’s going to cost ya. 

Ford has a head start with their F-150 that weighs the load in the bed of the pickup. Next logical step is to add up the weight every month, charge you a fee for it and auto-pay it out of your checking account.

First thing the lawyer does is write a letter that includes the only two words insurance companies are afraid of- “bad faith.” That usually brings them around. The owner probably isn’t covered for the mods unless he added insurance for them, and all of that disappeared anyway when the put him on liability. Then…

I just assumed Teslas had floor mats bluetoothed to the internet and if they move 1mm, Elon is personally notified and your car is barred from super charger stations until you pay a floor-mat realignment fee.

Maybe the future of car culture isn’t as doomed as I thought. Although I’m sure they’ll figure out some way to charge a subscription to move the seat or rear-view mirror or something. Oh wait they won’t even have mirrors just screens, they’ll turn off when your auto-pay (pun intended) misfires. I take it back... I see…