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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.

My 2022 X5 xDrive45e has the Drive Recorder, Driving Assistant Plus with Stop & Go, and Parking Assistant Professional packages. It’s irritating to know that if I bought another one, I’d have to pay monthly or yearly for these, rather than the once. Read more

David Tracy is one of your neighbors? I thought the city made him clear the lot a long time ago.  Read more

I have six at my house and we currently only have 2 drivers in the household (oldest son away at college). Read more

Not that I have seen. I fly with them pretty frequently. Points are points and they don’t expire. HOWEVER - they do fluctuate basically based on the current price of the same ticket in dollars.

That’s actually a very reasonable price spread. Now, how many of them will get marked up or saddled with mandatory addendums is the question. Read more

It’s not just you Lawrence, I’ll never understand why plugging in a $10 cable is such a problem and would deter someone from buying a car.  But that’s just me. Read more

Agree with you 100% on this one. Never seems to work well and consistently enough to bother with, and having to drop out of it to do other things is seriously annoying. I guess if a car had a good split screen setup I might use it, but I would rather just use Google Maps directly on my gigantic phone, and the car’s Read more

I low-key love this, but I think the enterprising teenager should have brushed up on his graphic design skills. Comic Sans and cartoon palm trees? Yikes. Read more

Just so you know, there are QUITE A FEW 6-digit G90s these days. (Most of the models with the electric supercharger are over 100k). But we agree COMPLETELY on the dealer experience. When I used to take my Mercedes to the dealer, there was no question I was getting a loaner. Even if it was just for an oil change, and Read more

I think my skin has turned green from envy. Read more

I agree. Of course I would have liked a sleeper hot hatch, but it isn’t one, which is fine. But I’ve driven compacts in this segment that aren’t what anyone would describe as “hot,” and they still feel more engaging than this car. If you want the luxury and the comfort, I totally get that. But then I also don’t know Read more

When I called a Kia dealer for the last time ever, they told me the $2,500 markup they had listed online for the EV6 was actually $15,000. I politely told the salesperson that was dishonest and absurd, and he told me “deal with it, maybe it will go down next year” and hung up on me. I was like, I’ll be damned. All the Read more

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback and I will be checking out the article today. Read more

The problem is that they know when the cameras are on and how to circumvent it. Putting a hand up, or covering the mic, etc. Read more

For fuxsake, the FTC should just shut this shit show down before class action suits from every state attorney general slowly eat Carvana live like a pack of Hyenas on a slow Zebra. Read more

Kevin - to you and the other Jalopnik writer, we kindly ask for more articles like this. So often when journalists are flown out for an event, 90% of the reviews of any car it is is positive with a slight negative sentence at the end. This felt real, unadulterated, truth, and resonated with a lot of us readers, check Read more

That’s me, minus the cash to buy an ISF. Will a top end 3-series out perform an IS? Probably. Will an IS be a garage queen? Most definitely not. Read more

AZ resident here, had a good buddy who left Lucid earlier this year as he says their whole operation is a shitshow. Especially noteworthy was how he was shocked there hasn’t been multiple lawsuits/OSHA investigations as people are getting injured on a daily basis.  Read more

The problem with it though is its even bad for the target audience. The average American drives 30 miles per day and this was sold in California home of the bumper to bumper traffic. Sure they may only go 30 miles but it takes 2 hours+ with the A/C blasting, that is not a recipe for a relaxing drive not worrying about Read more