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Lawrence Hodge
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik. Dad. Lover of all things with 4 wheels. Weird interest in buses.

If you were in the business, you know just as well as I do that a 121% LTV higher than a giraffe’s ass, but they’ll absolutely get it done. Read more

The most surprising part about all of this is that Hertz didn’t try to immediately arrest all of the customers. Read more

Asking a fast food restaurant to cut your burger in half should be a felony. Read more

Good luck getting it for MSRP. I called a few dealers in SoCal earlier this year about Civic Type R and GR Corolla prices. The CTR salesman laughed when I said MSRP and they said they can easily sell them for $60K so they will. The GR Corolla was not getting out the door for less than $50K. Read more

What’s not to understand. PE firm buys Wheel Pros, uses it to acquire firm it believes can help it sell more products because a finance bro analyst did some research one evening. Said PE firm as per corporate capitalist vulturism decides to use said newly valued (over inflated growth and sales projection) basket of Read more

You know the interior of that car reeks of cigarettes, McDonalds fries, and musty old man farts. One of those car interior cleaning YouTube channels is the only logical buyer for this stank ass old turd.  Read more

Some residents have taken to parking their trucks in a pay lot over half a mile from the neighborhood, Read more

> This brings into question why they sold his trade if they knew that he wasn’t approved. Maybe they sold it thinking that a lender would come through last minute with an approval. Read more

Lol this article was posted for us to laugh at the guy, right? Nobody should feel bad for him. Nobody. Read more

This sort of thing is why I don’t go to any of the local Corvette meet ups with my C5. You either get the absolute bone stock of stock-ish cars that get wiped down with diapers for eight hours on a Saturday and owners are scared to even carry a drink in them, or you get really absurd creations like this with every Read more

This wasn’t the only thing that got a SHO motor.

I don’t care how shitty your business is, there is zero excuse for a publicly listed company to have accounting this poor. I work in corporate finance and the rigors our private company clients are put through are arduous. PWC should damn well have been out ahead of this issue as well - it’s embarrassing. Read more

What’s especially insane is that ~245 miles per day means this car has averaged just over 10MPH in its lifetime. Like not 10MPH when in use, but since this thing rolled off the assembly line, on average every hour of its life it has moved 10 miles. Read more

I owned a 2008 LS 600h L last year, briefly. It was the most underwhelming car I’ve ever owned, even after I spent $4,000 to replace the traction battery with a refurbished unit.

Haha, I can vouch for the “Wagoneer Certified” experience being hot garbage.
First off, the few dealers around me selling Wagoneers are just regular schmucky CDJR dealers. Sleaze and all.
I bought a Grand Cherokee, but checked out the Wagoneers just for fun. Beautiful vehicle. HUGE, $$$$. Look to be competing with Read more