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Michael Ballaban
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Deputy Editor, Jalopnik. 2002 Lexus IS300 Sportcross.

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We’re trying to convince him to get a first- or second-gen RX-7. GET AN RX-7 DAVID!!!! Read more

I’m going to leave this as a comment on every single blog about a camouflaged prototype from now on. Read more

It was mostly a joke. That was a reply to someone who had basically said the exact same thing, they had just said it all about “communism.” I think it was in response to a story about AOC wanting people to use public transit more? It was just way too intense a response to someone saying “hey trains are good.” Read more

did you make a Kinja account just to “well ACTUALLY” the Union of Concerned Scientists? Read more

Jeez from the way Mercedes seems to pretend the SLK/SLC doesn’t exist I’d be shocked if they made another one at all. Read more

So many people make this website what it is every day for its readers, and most people never see their bylines on the site. Kavi’s one of those people. It can’t be overstated just how much Kavi’s done for Jalopnik and its readers. Any contentious story, any big investigation, anytime we had a question about who or Read more

It’s got power steering, the base model just doesn’t have a power tilt/telescoping steering wheel. Read more

Autopilot is a semi-autonomous system that really only works well on highways, and it doesn’t do anything like stop at a stop sign. It requires constant driver attention. Read more

Listen, I tried to stop him. He originally just called it a “Rolla” and wrote it like six times. It hurts. Read more

Oh cool it’s a Shelby Series 1.