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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.

That’s just stuff being regurgitated by what they see online. Read more

Everyone knows the airplane and Amelia are in the Delta Quadrant.  Read more

I did not know that! Thanks!
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All you shmucks making a case for this thing are missing the point. Read more

Is the Lexus Texas true to its name? Will the driving rights of some people be arbitrarily limited?  Read more

We should stop calling it the TX and start calling it the Lexus Texas. Read more

I will never understand why the only people on earth who can buy these cars are in such a death-cult with “resale values.” Read more

This is where the internet and reputations get really annoying. Read more

Silly dealer markups are entering a new....

I’m waiting for my Club soft-top allocation (and my GR86) allocation, whichever comes first. Keep voting with your wallets people ! We need more lightweight, RWD, manual, N/A engine performance cars that don’t break $50K out the door. Also, we don’t need any complicated shyt that will bankrupt you in repair costs, turn Read more

Just like the original, it’s not a race car and never was intended to be. That’s what doomed it from the start, because the way the automotive media functions these days, everything has to be the world’s greatest track car or forever be deemed a boring lump of shit. Read more

As one of these victims, I am puzzled that no one, NO ONE, with Hyundai North America did the math, comparing the cost of up front remediation vs. the loss of goodwill towards a company (Hyundai/Genesis) that has Lexus aspirations. Read more

I’ve been watching this for awhile, since I work on school busses for a living, though not in a rural district. For most of our routes, they are a solid option. That being said we don’t use the full sized transits for anything other than field trips and sporting events. A 93 mile round trip max would cover a lot of Read more

Anxiety is a pain in the ass. Thank you for talking about it. I don’t think I’d want to experience a rally car from anywhere but the driver’s seat. I do not want to be pinned in a race car with someone else driving. I don’t even like being a passenger in a regular car on the street. There’s no shame in that. If I Read more

Lawrence, give it another go sometime. I’ve done a lot of amazing things, and I’ve also had a few panic attacks. You never really know what brings them on, though I’ve gone back and thought “Huh, extremely exciting/tense day...plus 4 cups of coffee and a large dark chocolate Hershey’s Bar - not good!” In my experience Read more

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As someone who suffers from claustrophobia, I feel your pain man. And mine is just as what you described - not having room to move. It’s such a primal “fight or flight” reflex that just elevates your internal temperature, makes your heart race, and sends your breathing into overdrive. In short, it sucks! Read more