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more about #detroit more comments → skierpage: The New York Times is reporting on New Geography's ideas. That talks about other kinds of urban renewal, you should read it sometime. Ben, what's yo... more » jeepster4.0: me: thats a very solid bit of construction narrator: the young mans hand moves silently up to his imaginary beard as he quietly ponders the immense nu... more » ppiddy: Look, I love Detroit. I'm an urban planner in SE Michigan, fer chrissakes, so I'm bound by professional ethics to say I love it....but it IS a failed... more » powermatic: The Gov looks like she's desperately trying to remember the Heimlich Maneuver. #joebiden more » Sloop_John_B: Goddamn it, that's a tease if I ever saw one. For fuck's sake. Just make the green one available to the public for less than 25k with a few color ch... more » KAR120C: Memo to Jeep: PUT THIS IN YOUR SHOWROOMS AND SELL IT. And by 'this', I mean 'exactly this'. Diesel, rugged, basic. Don't care if it rides like crap... more » Maxichamp: Coming, courtesy the IDF, to an illegal West Bank settlement close to you soon! #j8 more » Mobius: At least he's clothed. #joebiden more » Mobius: NYT at least should have considered popular opinion, I mean, we youngsters aren't gonna take a liking to their publication if Eminem ain't rappin' 'bo... more » theeastbaykid: Nicely done piece. As a native Californian with lots of family in the Detroit area, I have a combination of perspectives--while Detroit is undeniably ... more » Mobius: That is so cool. It's old-school, it's purposeful, and its civilian counterparts are yet to be ruined by 24 inches of chrome. #j8 more » LS1RX7owen: now I see were you're coming from, maybe Utica should be demo'd instead. #detroit more » elargentino: If I visit Jeep dot com, my heart rate stays the same when I go through the product line, but when I see a couple of photos of these rolling on the st... more » powermatic: I agree with you concerning the zero-viability equation of any full scale, corp0rate-level farming in reclaimed Urban Areas (I spent many a summer at ... more » d3c509b aka Steve: Let me say, that I am also a Detroiter. Some Detroiters (including one of the guys from Slows BBQ, which is amazing) put this together. It pushe... more » -
#militaryvehicles
Jeep J8's Invade Detroit Veterans Day Parade
A pair of very cool Jeep J8's joined the fray in Detroit's Veterans Day Parade on Saturday, one bristling with weapons the other wearing an awesome hardtop. They also had news they'd be built soon in South Carolina. More » -
#lolcars
Joe Biden Chows Down In Detroit
This picture of Vice President Joe Biden earlier today at Detroit's Lafayette Coney Island inhaling a hot dog shows he's actually got room in his mouth for something other than his foot. More » -
#rants
NYT Encourages Demolition Of Detroit
The latest idea-that's-been-around-for-a-decade-and-the-media-is-just-discovering is urban farming, specifically urban farming in Detroit. The New York Times has picked up the story and dutifully regurgitated it without a half-second of rational thought, advocating the wholesale leveling of the "failed city" of Detroit. More » -
#detroit
Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
Remember the dump truck hanging out the side of the Packard Plant in our Feral Factories of Detroit story? Well, some kids decided it was time to push it over the edge. Check out the crashing-to-Earth result below. More » -
#carculture
Hello, Where is Detroit?
Yes, the US auto industry has seen better days but is it really justified to leave the entire city of Detroit off a map? More » -
#quoteoftheday
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On what the Chooch-enthusiast Car Czar learned after spending time with automakers. Apparently, looking like Abraham Lincoln doesn't make you a good leader. [Fortune] -
#moviecars
Red Dawn Tanks Invade Downtown Detroit
The "Red Dawn" remake is filming all across metro Detroit and when they aren't blowing stuff up, they're storing tanks and Humvees where the Statler Hotel used to be and transforming a parking garage into a Chinese police station. More » -
#moviecars
New Red Dawn Movie Blows Detroit Away!
The Chinese-infused Red Dawn re-make's beenblowing crap upfilming this week in Detroit. The city's an awesome place for making a movie. Just ask Michael Bay. He's beenblowing crap upfilming in Detroit for years. Set pictures below. More » -
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#carpocalypse
GM To Keep HQ In Detroit But Move Employees Somewhere Cheaper
The General plans to move even more employees out of the Rennaisance Center in Downtown Detroit to somewhere cheaper, leveling another blow at the city's dwindling tax base. But don't worry, they'll still call it their headquarters. [Detroit News] -
#classiccars
Citroën SM: The Unlikeliest Ride In The Motor City
Go to Detroit and you will expect to see muscle cars, American classics, hot rods, the odd Lamborghini, but you will not expect to see Robert Opron’s rolling spaceship from 1970. More » -
#speedlimits
Detroit Is A Good Place To Speed
Faced with dwindling resources, overcrowded prisons and much more significant crimes, Detroit police are now ignoring traffic infractions. Below, ABC News describes an incident where Detroit's police chief let someone driving without a license go with merely a warning.
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#detroit
Time Comes Back To Detroit, Finds Jalopnik Here Whole Time
Time's bought a house in one of Detroit's nicest old-money neighborhoods, embedding reporters for the next year here because it's the hip thing to do. Glad they've finally made it back just in time for our little Carpocalypse party. More » -
#carculture
Is There A Future For American Motoring?
The Dream Cruise was astounding-not merely the cars, but because cars were celebrated during a time of economic instability, environmental worries, and changing definitions of personal mobility. So what's the future of the Dream Cruise-and auto enthusiasts in general? More » -
#woodwarddreamcruise
Woodward Dream Cruise Tragically Misinterprets Ozone Action Day
Hundreds of thousands of metro Detroiters came out today with their muscle cars to the Woodward Dream Cruise, misinterpreting today's "ozone action day" declaration by the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG), believing ozone must be destroyed. [DetroitNews] -
#woodwarddreamcruise
Army Invades Dream Cruise, Fills Tank At Speedway
It's both massively cool and somewhat disconcerting to see a seemingly military-spec truck filling up at a public gas station in a region that’s not occupied by an army... yet.
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#woodwarddreamcruise
Hipsters On Bicycles Seek To Screw With Woodward Dream Cruise
Apparently hippies-on-bikes in Ferndale are looking to screw with the Woodward Dream Cruise by massing at 9 Mile and Woodward. As you can see, all eight of them will likely be easily dispatched of by one Mustang's open-ended burnout.
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#woodwarddreamcruise
Woodward Dream Cruise: A Plague Upon All Your Movie Houses
Awesome as the Woodward Dream Cruise is, many businesses on Woodward Avenue harbor a Biblical hate for it in their hearts. The marquee of the Magic Bag theater in fabulous Ferndale is going all Old Testament on us. [DetroitNews]
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#woodwarddreamcruise
Woodward Dream Cruise: Show Us Your Pics!
We've shown you what we're cruising in at this year's Woodward Dream Cruise, but now it's time for you to show us yours. Add a shot of your cruiser in the comments below or alternately, use Twitter!
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#woodwarddreamcruise
Woodward Dream Cruise: What You May Have Missed Last Night
If you're here in Metro Detroit and weren't on Woodward, then you, our friend, missed out. We were there and so was Detroit's ABC affiliate. Here's their video of what Woodward looked like. My god, it's full of cars! [WXYZ] -
#carpocalypse
The Feral Factories Of Detroit
Decades of corporate mismanagement, incompetent government policies, shortsighted agendas and misplaced ego caused the decline of Detroit's, and therefore America's, automotive industrial might. Mother nature doesn't care for such trivialities. She's been busy taking back what's hers. Gallery below. More »
