three of them pure N cars, four them N Line cars.

I don’t know why, but I love this thing. $3,500 for a car that was likely very well maintained during its lifetime with only a few niggling faults and a few trim pieces in the trunk to make it A-ok.

Or the Lincoln version, the MKT.

This R350 in Worcester is $12k. It has AWD for your New England winters, and in a Goldilocks zone of height for ease of ingress/egress.

Yup. That 45 degree C-pillar really sells the effect.

So. Much. This. 

Am I the only one that sees a little bit of the Porsche 928 in the rear? It’s almost like some retro-futuristic Macan from another dimension.

Totally off topic...what do you actually do at a C&C meetup? I go to a few every once and a while but it doesn’t seem like people talk too much or they have their known group of people and are talking. I end up strolling around for 20 min, seeing what is cool, then just leaving.

The cars go to a used lot and are sold to paying customers.

Umm, so you can get a base Q7 for $55k, and a decently optioned V6 twin turbo one for $70k.

There’s mostly a lot to like here, but the grille is aftermarket-looking to me. Not sure if it’s because the emblem sits on the hood, but the grille looks tacked on in the pictures IMHO.

Model S is a joke compared to the Taycan. I literally looked at them side by side today. Not the same class of car - it’s like comparing an Impala to an S-Class. They’re both large sedans that take the same type of fuel but that's where the similarities end. 

But these drivers don’t work for these companies, they use and benefit from being a part of their platform. They drive their own cars on their own time when they feel like it. An Uber driver can also work for Lyft, Postmates, DoorDash, Rover... an endless foray of app-based platforms which provide flexible hours, a…

I disagree with absolutely every assertion Erik writes here, and hope that AB5 dies the miserable death it so richly deserves.

“as she heads out”

This. This is why I keep coming back to Jalopnik. Because even amid the shit political takes no one asked for, you guys publish interesting, relatable and thoughtful pieces on why all of us are irrationally attached to depreciating metal death machines on wheels

Nice story. And it’s a toyota so you can pass it on to your daughter when she’s 16. You can tell her dates the birth story as she heads out.

This once might have been a good idea - until vast swaths of Tesla-affording customers starting working from home forever or moving out of urban areas, essentially eradicating any need to speed up the commute between a home or office in our private cars...

“They suck so bad at everything, why settle for mediocrity?”