matthardigree
Matt Hardigree
matthardigree
Gawker Media's Executive Editor for Publishing Partnerships. Ex-Jalopnik EiC.

Indeed. The team at Silent Crow did a great job and I’m glad they let me be a small part of it! Read more

Hah, I didn’t negotiate the music rights but I’d guess that would be expensive. Read more

According to reports of the era, Oldfield was actually much faster because Winton would brake into the corners but Oldfield was a motorcycle racer and he realized he could just “drift” the car on the corner and carry more speed through. You’ll see this in rally racing, too. Read more

Fun fact: all the shots you see of me were taken in the Classic Car Club Manhattan, which was cool enough to let us shoot there for about 8 hours one Saturday. I remember... maybe 20 minutes. Seeing these clips are kind of a reminder of what I actually said. Read more

I feel like a monster truck-sized moped would be pretty unstable. I think I could take that down. Read more

There was! The Envoy XUV I thought was a clever idea, but it didn’t work. Read more

It’s like the ultimate realization of 1950s post-war consumerism. Read more

We have a very short amount of time for each section so... I’d love to do an entire episode on the VW and Tatra. Read more