In the same way stealth is used to avoid predation, isn’t speed used as well? We can see hummingbirds very clearly, but there is no way in hell we can catch them with our bare hands. Maybe they (if, of course, there is a “they”) focused all their technological advancements in the pursuit of speed. As well as producing…

I call my 94 4Runner a truck, but I think that’s cause my wife (who is a Chevy truck girl, and also drives a Jeep) calls it a car to tick me off... it works.

Although I’m slightly ho-hum about Dodge in general, the quad-cab 5-speed with the 4.7 hits all the right buttons for me. I’ve always wondered how difficult it would be to put that transmission in a WJ... THAT would be a dream rig for me

I’m wondering how useful Hearos would be in this situation? I use them when I drum and they’re a special form of hearing protection that filters out the high-pitched frequencies commonly attributed to hearing loss, but still allow you to hear. Have you tried them before? Or are you simply looking to block out as much n…

Oh cool! I grew up in NW Reno. Yeah, that bit of North Virginia right by the Bonanza Casino. Where it turns to 40mph right after a 50mph. I felt like it was at least once every two months someone was getting hit. That’s not even counting the amount of close calls I saw on that street.

Where in Nevada do you reside? Up here in Reno, there’s a stretch of North Virginia where pedestrians were getting hit and killed almost on the regular a few years back. It’s the only time I’ve seen construction up here and NOT hear bitching and complaining about it haha. Those stoplight warning lights and pedestrian c…

I pretty much agree with the scale Patrick George uses, any thing 5L and up starts getting big... except when I pop the hood on a old Town Car, that 4.6L just looks enormous. Big ass valve covers, it seems tall in a “low” engine bay, crammed into an already large car... it just appears huge to me. Maybe just me?…

Thanks too Top Gear, I will forever pronounce it “Nissan Kumquat” when I read “Qashqai” in my head...

This is sad, because I met my girlfriend because she was stranded in a Home Depot parking lot with her hood up. I stopped and asked if everything was okay, she said, “yeah, I’m on the phone with my brother, I’ll be fine.” So I went inside to return my carpet cleaner and, of course, buy stuff I knew I didn’t need, but w…

You know, I had a feeling I was getting my terminology mixed up. Thank you!

Strangely, the thing I find most entertaining about driving a manual big truck, especially the Cummins’, is how easy it is to flat-foot shift. I learned to shift without the clutch in my old Tacoma, but there’s something so satisfying about doing it in a diesel. Plus, the sound of those long shifts is great! The long r…

Practice! Get to an empty parking lot when it snows, and see how your car is going to react when you accelerate and brake. I’m not saying go do donuts (well, not at first) but it’s always good to see what your car is going to do and, more importantly, what YOU are going to do when your car starts to slip! Living in Nor…

You also have to remember there are people who are going to buy this with the intent of hitting 7s, or even 6s. Yeah, maybe some are going to turn them into garage queens, but I give it a year or two before we see one that has an even bigger supercharger or other go-fast bits pushing it even further. 

Yeah, those deer strikes can be pretty gruesome. I’m about 30 minutes away from Tahoe, and we get all the cars where bears get locked in them. The interior is absolutely torn to pieces, and the poor guy usually has to do his business out of fear. Bear cars get an automatic biohazard sticker. We don’t even open the door…

I’ve been working at copart for a little over a year now, biohazard really means anything that we don’t want to touch in the car. While, most of the time, it’s blood, it could also be needles, feces (human or animal) it’s infested with wasps or other poisonous bugs, or mold. Most of the cars that come though copart are…

Add this to the endless list of weird things Jalopnik answered questions too that I thought only I alone had. It’s good to know I’m not alone. Thanks a bunch to you all

Didn’t they make this one with an Oldsmobile-only 4.0 V8, too? I’ve always had a soft spot for that car.

Slightly off topic... I really, really like those wheels in that SVX promo shot.

I was gifted for high school graduation, from my uncle, a 1975 Beetle. It originally had the fuel injected motor, but someone in its life had swapped a 1500cc dual-carb motor, which happened to be seized. Original Yukon Yellow paint, which was immaculate, 80k original miles, restored interior (also immaculate) and the…

Didn’t this car come with a rear-seat entertainment system with a VHS player? I remember a friend of mine had a Quest with one, and it still worked!