One of my college roommates had a Summit. When loaded with four or five people it struggled to get up hills with the few horsepower it had left. It had the odd distinction of being simultaneously unique (not many left in 2008) and anonymous.

This is where things get interesting: if you cap compensation at a maximum of 10% of the award/settlement, you increase the risk the law firm takes on in representing a potential plaintiff, thereby increasing the possibility that the firm will decline to litigate a case that has merit (but also risks, as all do), and…

Is there any chance these can be heated just enough so that snow melts on contact?

Not to get off topic, but the role of contingency fees in tort litigation is pretty interesting, and other commenters have echoed this. Yes, tort lawyers get 30% to 40% of an award or settlement, which is a ton, but at the same time this allows injured people to pursue compensation while bearing none of the financial…

Nice case brief.

I feel like I haven’t seen a VR6 on a VW spec sheet in ages, what sort of output do they have these days?

TDI owners are getting a great deal considering that, as a class action, they haven’t had to raise a finger (or a dollar) for it. Sure, it’s not a perfect solution for every TDI owner, but that’s not what it’s meant to be; it’s meant to be a good solution in the aggregate. Of course, this will never sit right with…

I prefer the 6.0 liter GTFO.

State law often exculpates law enforcement officers from negligence actions, as it is understood that since they have to make difficult and quick decisions fairly frequently, those decisions will not always seem optimal when examined with the clarity of hindsight.

Bank of Jalopnik, where owning a brown manual wagon makes you a “prime” borrower.

Otherwise agree with your post, but Constitutional Law professors of either political persuasion would beg to differ on this.

I clearly live in the wrong country. This is like the “Everyone Poops” of cars...I’m not sure what that means, but I stand by it.

Like most people in the ‘80's, the people who engineered car tape decks must’ve had incredible foresight!

Car manufacturers: just give me this and a discrete place to plug in and store my phone. Don’t give it too much thought, which is how we’ve arrived at the current state of car interiors. In fact, don’t think about it at all, just do the above.

First, this was a manufacturer’s defect that was not SEPTA’s fault, and SEPTA handled the fallout quite well given their limited resources. You’re playing right into what I’m talking about: people get inconvenienced occasionally, and fail to recognize that they’ve made a tremendous capital improvements over the last…

SEPTA gets far more flack than it deserves because the majority of people in Philly have never lived anywhere else long-term and base their perception of effective public transit from a weekend trip to NYC or DC, which is always uneventful because it’s the weekend and transit systems aren’t stressed as much as they…

All these comments and:

This is what people from northern Delaware refer to as “lower, slower Delaware.”

The new Bronco is just what America needed: another SUV with which suburban moms will battle over parking spots at Starbucks en route to satisfying a crack-like addiction to pumpkin spice lattes. Of course, this is impossible to accomplish in a mere car because you “MUST BE UP HIGH” to win this savage game and…

Would it be a greater service to society to physically remove this guy from the road, freeing up traffic and possibly sparing his life, or let him keep going and perhaps letting nature have its way?