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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.

Funny thing is the demise of this car will not be by consumers but by Toyota dealerships. With shortages this thing will be a six figure car at some dealerships pushing the envelope and normal dealers asking $10k over sticker. Every cool car made in the last 6-7 years has had some sort of dealer markup with it being Read more

I’ve been fortunate to spend 24 hours with both a 2019 Vantage and a 2017 AMG GT (base) - both rented on Turo and both driven hard in the Malibu canyons (Vantage) and CO mountain roads west of Golden (AMG). Also plenty of time in normal slower traffic around town. Here are my notes I took from each (driven two years Read more

Drove one of these (a 2019 model I think) last year for my bachelor party: with one of those companies that takes you through the windiest parts of a state park in Colorado for a couple hours and lets you go ham (90mph+) on a couple exotic cars (570S, AMG GT-R, Gallardo). Read more

Personally, I prefer “Feels So Real”, but this is just as fine.  Excellent choice, Lawrence. Read more

Beautiful and cool as hell car. Im jealous you got a week w/it!  Read more

British car with a German heart you say? Read more

Okay Lawrence. You’re invited to the cookout..LOL Read more

Nothing these game companies put out there as NFTs does anything for anyone that a standard database couldn’t handle far more effectively. The only reason they’re pushing for NFT is to try and create Real Money Transactions(RMT) market places in a restricted system that they can control and extract fees from.
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Slapped this demo together last weekend to meet with the owner to go over projects outside of desperately trying to not wreck my drone flying from shotgun

As someone who has been here for a long time (and who came in just after a big staff departure, if anyone else remembers Wojdyla et al) I have to say this is one of the best lineups we’ve ever had! Everyone has a great energy, is super creative, and good to be around. Read more

During our week away from Kinja we talked about coming back and doing all of the stuff that we missed most about Jalopnik of old. So these chats are back, as are Traffic Jams. There are things that we can’t control, so we want to make what we can the best we can make them. Read more

We want to keep it a regular thing! I’ve been on the other side of these hangout posts in the past, and getting to chat with the car writers I read every day was so cool back then. I, and I think everyone else on staff, wanna give that opportunity to the current generation of Jalop readers Read more

He should get a Charger with a Hemi...because if you are going to buy an American sedan over a Camry or Accord you might as well get one with a V8 and RWD.  Read more

Picking up another project tomorrow. Can’t wait. 

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.” Read more

A little known fact about why NJ law prohibits self-serve gas pumps is because some station owners lobbied the government to change it because one of their competitors, Irving Reingold, offered a lower price per gallon on the condition the customers pumps it themselves. The legislature at the time claimed it was for Read more