andrewpcollins
Andrew P. Collins
andrewpcollins
Jalopnik Staffer from 2013 to 2020, now Editor-In-Chief at Car Bibles

A couple RTTs would pull a premium one week before Overland Expo. Read more

That shot of driving on the raised highway towards the tunnel going through the mountains is actually the H3 highway on Oahu, Hawaii (with some CG editing of the surrounding area). Instantly recognized it, even before I wikipedia’d the movie to see that some of it was shot in Hawaii, as I drove over that chunk of road Read more

It made me want to hike Brazil, made me want a classic 4x4 and made me want to watch a better action movie. You hit the nail on the head with this one. Not horrid but just not interesting. They make bad decisions and get poor results... But they're supposed the be the best of the best so you know they'd be making Read more

I just changed my license plate bulbs to be white LED, so... kinda the same thing, right?

Thanks for the idea! As I only have two seats I had to swap the right and left headrests, but it’s completely changed the look and feel of my truck Read more

I actually loved Triple Frontier because of these reasons. I haven’t seen too many other movies that sent their protagonists from sympathetic-ish to total, unlikable assholes so quickly. Read more

I tried to watch it last night but it really didn’t captivate me and I ended up dividing my attention. I did notice some of the vehicles were pretty neat though. I laughed when he knocked the Silverado even though it aesthetically looked really taken care of for a mid 00...

That’s a great idea. Besides looking good, rear visibility is so much better. Ironically there for safety, I’ve had a few cars where the damn rear headrests nearly got me killed. Read more

Flipping a forward-facing headrest backwards is a pretty common trick for avoiding the Mr. Burns-style back hunch, if you tend to sit pretty upright or find that your aggressively forward-leaning headrests interfere with wearing a helmet at a trackday or something. I think I’d go nuts if I hadn’t spun the Lancer’s Read more

I like those new head rests. Really ties the room together.

They probably help with rear visibility, too. At least to a degree.  Read more

That’s kind of funny. Back in 2001 I owned a 2000 Taurus, which if you know Taurii, you know Ford changed very little between those 2 years. Actually, the only thing I could find different was the front headrests. In the 2000, they were huge, in the 2001 they were more refined and simply better looking. So I changed Read more

and you’ve improved rearward visibility Read more

All 372 of the 250 produced showed up to the 100th anniversary of the 911.   Read more