Collin Woodard's saved articles

My reasonable assumption is that the truck was already upside-down. Read more

Well there goes $240. Sigh.

Well that was a near miss. I live on the west side and had been planning to drive out to Detroit for a concert on Saturday evening, but I wanted to make a game-day decision because of the weather (after getting caught in an awful blizzard the week prior, I was in no mood for another bad-weather road trip). This crash h… Read more

House looks nice.

Let me ask you this- if all the places you drive in a day started charging you for parking (your office, the grocery store, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, that cool new restaurant, etc) would you still be interested in driving as much? Like, it now costs you 7.50 to park at the grocery store. $3.50 for the privilege… Read more

Thanks for putting this out. I started documenting the journey in the fall of 2019 on driveaccord.net Here’s my car’s thread: Read more

This thing is fuckin hideous... I want 12 of them Read more

Jalopnik covers all areas of transportation. Boats, airplanes, air travel, motorcycles, unicycles... Read more

I would have not cut up a 2009 Brabus for this experiment; there were not many of those made that year. That said, starting with a Brabus as a base is sort of hilarious. It came slightly lowered from the factory, which makes lifting it almost a middle finger to Brabus. lol Read more

Oh great. I live in the area. I can barely write this over how angry it makes me. I ride mostly in bike lanes, wear a fluorescent yellow vest and have numerous lights to make me as visible as possible. Yet I have repeatedly been almost hit by people in their cars- the most recent when someone ran a stop light and not… Read more

“...that technicians are required to be meticulous about engine maintenance and have redundant safety procedures built in”. True, but vague. In reality, the person performing maintenance on your engine, and aircraft, has obtained a professional license issued by the FAA that they earned either through a multi-year… Read more

Nice pull from Jim Croce. You now have my wife singing the song all around the house… heh Read more

Hey, these are really good suggestions, especially the Regal and the Flex Read more

Wants: Weird, unique, preferably European Read more

The correct answer to these questions is always Flex or Miata. In this case its Flex. My wife has a Limited Flex with the engine mentioned & she loves flooring it on onramps & saying “Wheeeee” and she is NOT a car gal. I’m not gonna lie this toaster hustles & is comfy as F to ride in. 10/10 recommend  Read more

This was a genuinely good slide show. There are some pretty good story tellers who visit this site. Read more

Five years ago, when I was still prone to making stupid decisions (and to finding adrenaline rushes) I took my previous Subaru - this bone-stock 2018 XT - up a road called South Colony Lakes to get to a trailhead so I could attempt to climb a 14er called Crestone Peak. It’s a road rated “difficult 4wd”. There were…

Reading the comments section in Jalopnik every time there’s a study that says “cars are bad actually” is both amusing and depressing at the same time. We’re all Jalops, we all love cars, but there’s so many things that we use cars for that just aren’t necessary at the end of the day. Some of it can be easily… Read more

For those of you fortunate enough not to know who Michael Shellenberger is, he’s a corporate shill with a background in public relations. He has zero training in any science or environmental subjects, but he is handsomely paid by the nuclear power industry and various conservative think tanks for his “contrarian”… Read more