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

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Nah, the amount of posts should be the same. We’ve been running posts every 20-30 minutes (every hour nights/weekends, though if there’s breaking news we’ll always run it immediately) for years now. Every time we add staff, we use that additional person to give everyone some more breathing room for more in-depth Read more

Archer, by far. They seem to go out of their way just to have interesting cars as background characters Read more

The M240i has slightly less power, and is slightly softer. Sure, that might mean a slightly shorter lap time, but I’ve driven the M2 on track. The M2 is just SO competent, and SO easy to drive on the limit, that it’s almost not even fun anymore. That’s why I like the M240i more. Read more

I gotta go to a race track you wanna come to a race track instead Samer Read more

This might sound weird but I think everyone here not-so-secretly loves the Honda Fit. Good little car for families with small kids. Fun as hell to chuck into a corner. And the CVT shockingly isn’t the worst thing in the world. Read more

Depends. Does it look like it’s in shambles, or is it just finally starting to get a nice crusty patina? Read more

Funnily enough, Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant is the only time I’ve puked from the food before even leaving the place. To this day, if someone says the words “donkey sauce” around me, I start to get abdominal convulsions. Read more

Less practical/more exciting like a lightly used Lotus Elise? Or less practical/more exciting like illegal drugs? Read more