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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.
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I’ve been following electric boating for a while and I hadn’t heard about this company. Looks well thought out. EV marine is tough. It’s a lot harder than cars because the loads are high and sustained, and although weight is less of an issue, it’s still very much an issue as is cost.

Hey Lawrence, thanks for dropping by! Read more

he’s already receiving death threats for the changes”

The fuck is wrong with people? Seriously? Its a fucking car. If your life is made so horrible by a car no longer burning dinosaur goo, consider yourself lucky to have no real problems in life.
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Its Harrisburg PA. Part of the RED T in PA. Racial tensions are getting worse here and the bigots are getting bold. We have faced harassment in our neighborhood just because my Latina wife chooses to embrace her heritage and fly a Puerto Rican flag out front. This does not surprise me in the slightest. Read more

Especially near the 605. From Anaheim to Corona, the 91 is perpetually fucked.  Read more

Well, unless you could actually see the shenanigans, you’d probably just think that was regular 91 traffic. Read more

The number of people in that comment section defending drivers hitting cyclists was disgusting.
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Sure, yeah, people protesting for civil rights are totally the same thing as idiots who make their cars spin.
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It’s changed dramatically over the years, but some calls are just hard to make. I’m not into typical sports, but it feels a lot like those in the way some tough calls have to be made. What’s cool though is getting to hear the judges directly explain their rationale, and oftentimes you’ll watch what looked like a clear Read more

I can give one reason the super wealthy flock to Malibu, its the same reason people flock to Beverly Hills which is nothing more than a neighborhood when you drive through it. The reason; real estate. If you want to know how to turn a $2M house into a $10M house start by buying it in a location that homes sell Read more

Newport Beach Cars and Coffee was forced to move and became the Irvine Cars and Coffee for this exact reason... now the Irvine location is gone too. Read more

As a fellow Black man, I’m not offended, per se, just bewildered. Read more

Targeted marketing makes me nauseous, and it’s only getting worse now that streaming platforms know exactly what race, gender, and sexual orientation you are. As for cultural lingo, isn’t that always how it works, though? Black people or gay people have a phrase unique to us, then younger white people pick up on it, Read more

Serious question here... does this vehicle honestly need to exist? So you want a people carrier and an off-roader and have $67k blowing a hole in your pocket? Why not just get a $33.5k minivan and a $33.5k wrangler and get the best of both worlds?  How often does it occur to people that its a good idea to load up 17 Read more

Raised air intakes from the factory are pretty common in some markets, but not in the US. I was under the impression that there was a legal reason Toyota had to have the raised air intake installed by the dealer and not by the factory, same with Chevy, but maybe Ford found a way around that or paid up to bypass it. Read more

In general, removing a FICO score requirement should be celebrated because FICO scores are total scams that do nothing other than perpetuate the wealth gap in this country.
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Woof. Not joining the borrowing money debate in the comments because my own ideas about debt have shifted every which way in the last five years, so I’m not sure what I actually believe. But I can say with a fair degree of certainty that there will be people who get hurt by this new policy. And it will be people who Read more

The root of the problem is that too many people, young and old just don’t understand money, savings, and investment. As a result, many decisions are poor and counterproductive. Read more

The CarFax reports do show the majority of them came through auction purchases. Although, a handful of them came through a used dealer called BH Motorcars in NJ. Maybe they’re moving cars between them to keep money moving? Who knows. Take that information however you’d like. Read more

At the end of the day, though, none of this really matters. No matter the brand, most customers will likely never venture off-road in these vehicles — which is why so many brands can keep creating “off-roading” SUVs that are all bark and no bite. Read more