I thought not stomping over other’s automotive preferences would have been a prerequisite for this job, but OK. Since I can assume you’re just trolling I’ll not get upset, but I will offer an alternative position. I daily a big ol truck for a number of reasons.

Very few people, including most jalopnik.com writers and readers, buy the vehicle they need. They buy the vehicle they want to and can (sometimes) afford. Nobody needs a BMW, Tesla, sports car, Jeep, roadster or any other car any of us would like to own. They all need a camry or a Grand Caravan. Or really just a bus…

I would never own a full-sized pickup(except for maybe a SRT10), but warning bells go off when someone starts opining on what everyone else should drive. I can see similar arguments made against V8 ponycars- two inefficient, too big, too powerful, etc. My overriding vehicular ownership philosophy is: What car or…

What about chickens?

Jason, I mention this every time you or another writer at Jalopnik writes about patents. You mostly do not understand them. As I’ve said before, a published application is not a patent, it’s just an application. You can file an application and have it publish for pretty much anything. It has nothing to do with whether…

I see you looking for that ref, kid. You’ve got a bright future.

That clip was just the tip of the iceburg. I watched it live last night and it was boring at times, very entertaining at othes. They pitted him about 5 times, he ran over about 10 spike strips, and had many more civilian vehicles trying to block him off. Here’s the whole thing (warning, it’s an hour-twenty min long)…

They don’t take that kind of approach in Texas (0:12).

That poor rear bumper. What a drag.

If the driver gets into a collision it’d be a Tyrannosaurus wreck.

A five year old, modified 370z? That’s about $7k too much.

Take your libtard regulations back to kommiefornia, I wear my freedom belt when I climb into my diesel death machine and it feels good. I can hear the bald eagles singing as I roll coal over your Prius. Can you feel the truck nuts on your back hatch?

No shit. It’s so adorable when people who aren’t from Michigan talk about rusty cars.

Pure Michigan FTW. My 94 wrangler loses 3 pounds in rust buildup every time I use an impact gun on one of the bolts.

In Michigan, this is considered “light surface rust”. Seriously.

Meanwhile in Michigan...

Canada has safety inspections that take a lot of cars like this off the road. Come to Michigan if you want to see the real rolling rust buckets.

For this instant I feel everything is right with the world.

Do you people really think we engineered a defeat device? Keep in mind we can hardly keep our interior trim from falling off once the car is over two years old.

higher octane gas—usually 95 or 98 octane—is already common across Europe, but in the U.S. we’ve been sticking with trash gas—87, 91, or 93 octane