You’re putting a lot of self-reflection in this and imposing it on a whole lot of other people. I think a) plenty of people still have money, and b) electronics are as much a desired form of escapism as they’ve ever been. Demand is probably higher now than ever. 

If you had told me a week ago that I was about to meet two childhood friends that had played Runescape together for 15 years at a bachelor party that convinced me to sign back in and now we’re all hooked again, I would have not believed you. Yet, here we are.

This was dope, Bradley -- perfect application of a Q&A style. I wish I had conversations like this more often. 

Is it not odd that they are sending out a vehicle to press in Germany if it’s not sold in their market any longer? Or are there a bunch of leftovers left for sale? And they were cool with American press borrowing it (which writes primarily for a market where it is also not sold)? Or is just any exposure good news in…

I don’t think there were enough AMMO ads snuck in. 

Welcome! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Jalopnik staff writer put “yeet” in an article and, for whatever reason, it cracked me up. It’s perfect. You live such an interesting life and I look forward to seeing what weird shit you get into. 

I’m usually anti-slideshow but this is kind of the most appropriate reason to have one! 

I completely forgot about that! I never really used the A/C a lot in that car but it would always click when I turned it on and when I turned on the air. Fortunately it never failed completely on me so I never had to get the dash ripped out to replace it. 

I also had a ‘14. Anything electronic in mine would just randomly stop working and even under warranty they couldn’t fix it, it would just start working one day. Especially Bluetooth. Every few months I had to pull the same fuse for the radio unit because it would keep on playing and drawing power when the vehicle was…

This. I bought a FiST new and it was so much fun but it felt like it was glued together. 

Welcome! I am going to give you a little bit of shit for misspelling your own name in the URL, but that’s okay. Looking forward to seeing what shenanigans you get into! 

Who’s giving you shit? Give them shit back. Ioniq is cool tech. 

I find this hard to believe. As a parent, I’m not just hoping my kids didn’t hear the tweeker drive through the front door or him screaming in the house. I am making sure they are okay. And I’m no tough guy or anything but with my family’s safety on the line, some way, some how, someone is dying in that house right…

I want my old VW Golf TDI back that I sold about 6 months before I got a letter from VW offering to buy it back as part of Dieselgate ... for more than I paid for it to begin with. Still salty about it. 

I find anywhere that is a mix of lots of locals that have never left and a large number of transplants have crazy driving cultures. I’m sure Jason can confirm living in the Triangle in NC can be crazy -- tons of people that grew up here and never left, tons of transplants, especially from NY. The former tend to act…

I know he was being hyperbolic, but to play off what you started, if you did finance this thing for 15 years, like a mortgage (please don’t), at that rate you’d be paying almost $30k in interest over the life of the loan making your total repayment just under $120k, which, if by some miracle your off-road monster…

What pronunciation are they trying to invoke? “Trax?” Like, “see my tracks on these non-paved places I drove!” Or, like, the dino? 

There is just something hilariously ironic about a nuclear powerplant having a winter wonderland. 

I just peed a little. 

Who doesn’t love a good power bulge?