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Jason Torchinsky
jasontorch
Senior Editor, Jalopnik • Running: 1973 VW Beetle, 2006 Scion xB, 1990 Nissan Pao, 1991 Yugo GV Plus, 2020 Changli EV • Not-so-running: 1977 Dodge Tioga RV (also, buy my book!: https://rb.gy/udnqhh)

I’m not saying you can’t care, and I’m not saying that a quick 0-60 time isn’t a wonderful thing. I’m saying the current obsession that we’re seeing right now measuring 0-60 time down to the thousandth is stupid when you can’t easily take an 8-hour road trip in these cars yet. It’s a metric nearly nobody will actually Read more

I’m guessing they did the actual digging as quickly and unobtrusively as possible. The trenchers could make a narrow slot several feet long in about a minute. Read more

Honestly, I’m not exactly sure where they were making these trenches. They were very narrow, like under 2 inches wide, and a couple feet deep. Read more

It does feel a lot like an Aspen. If they hadn’t said it was 1986, I would have considered it more of an Aspen variant, but they said what they said. Read more

Yep! He seems to have more brand loyalty than I’d have guessed. Read more

I didn’t say I hated it! Just that it was a sad and miserable box of shit. Big difference. Read more

You’re right! I struggled with whether or not I should include a truck. Since I was imagining something sort of premium/performance targeted, I left it out. Maybe that was a grave error. Read more

The title of this is “Guaranteed Not-To-Happen Predictions for cars in 2017.” Read more

I know there’s really no way to prove this, but I really do take seriously the idea of telling the truth in what I write– well, when I’m not making some stupid joke. But I really do have a copy of the book Rocketship, and it really does have a reprint of this old comic, and that is really what I thought of when I Read more

This is a really good thought; all those physical controls as a check on some sort of droid rebellion! Very good thinking. Read more

Whisper the name of the person forcing you to click on articles you’re not interested in and we’ll send help. Stay strong! Read more