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

Corporations get years to correct financial mistakes. Meanwhile the common citizen gets their lives destroyed in just weeks if someone else makes a mistake. Consumer protections in the US is garbage. Contact your representatives! Tell them to do their job and make life better for us. Read more

I think people underestimate the out of nowhere capital generated by pump and dump crypto bros and meme stocks. The current trend of ridiculous upward prices of anything flaunted on Insta (luxury watches, cars, etc) is a direct result of large influxes of liquidity in people that never had money before. I mean, look Read more

Tom helped me find a jeep dealer that's getting me 3500 below msrp on a custom built Rubicon. Deals are out there! Happy to have hired his team to find one for me.  Read more

I hate saying this - but had this been an attractive white girl, this would be splashed across the national news, teams of volunteers would have been out searching this last month, and we’d have serious people, asking serous questions about what happened. Read more

I get the not being searched... although they should. But towing companies do not go picking up cars at will . Police or parking enforcement needs to fill paperwork first. No license plate... use the VIN to enter info. Then pick up the car. Read more

That’s a District Attorney grasping at straws to try to make an example of someone. I can’t see that charge possibly sticking unless the guy was threatening the driver or physically holding the door closed to prevent them from getting out. “That man was talking at me so passionately that I couldn’t leave for whole minu Read more

Ugh where does this end? I know the bigger Jeep models are already well into 6 figures but $60k for a Grand Cherokee. Next year that’s $62k. Then $65k, onwards to $70k. This is all before dealer mark up’s too. Trucks are already at that level. WHO IS BUYING THESE!? I’m genuinely confused. I live in a household with 2 Read more

Just expanding on a general notion that all roads in socal are good. That specific stretch of road is a good road. However, the deeper issue is traffic flow. Just that stretch between Weir canyon and the 241 is just bad during rush hour. Read more

As a former resident in the 2010's, and having lived out there as a kid in the 80's and 90's, I have a good bit of experience with the police there. When I was kid in high school in the 90's, the 1 cop (not the same one as in ‘18) was a joke. All he would ever do would be to write speeding tickets. When I was in high Read more

What do actual, real world, Lyft/Uber drivers think about this? Not the select few on this site (there is bias here), but company wide? Read more

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Please let it be DeSantis Please let it be DeSantis Please let it be DeSantis. Read more

For fucks sake it’s a pickup truck. This is hoarding toilet paper all over again. You think Ford isn’t going to make enough trucks? Just like the Corvette, the Bronco, and the (insert “desirable new vehicle” here), these companies are going to keep the plants running as fast as they can until demand runs out. Paying Read more

Not to mention that it is illegal to condition the sale of a vehicle which you have purchased, from being re-sold. Once it is yours, neither Ford or the dealer may prevent you from selling it. And, they CAN NOT make you agree to such a condition as part of the sale...Hello, Superior Court!  Read more

I’m not saying that.  Im saying that its an expensive and niche product that is very unlikely to need to be launched with a Work Truck trim.  I guess thats the way to get the price down at launch Read more

I drove a tow truck as a side hustle for AAA back in the day and from the looks of it, she is lucky the car didn’t kill her if she had to stop quickly in route since it wasn’t strapped down AT ALL. The way I was taught - sure you can apply the vehicle’s parking brake but you better not rely solely on that. We had to Read more

Yes, they do. I even worked there and saw all of the bullshit they took in on trade for their “pawn shop,” though I didn’t realize it was being used to defraud banks. Read more