Didn’t cross my mind but this actually makes a lot of sense. Read more

Ok, this was worth it. Read more

I think it went out on a now blissfully deleted Nader email chain. Read more

Instead of gratitude my 17-year-old self would ask you to send $1.00 to Amy Goodman. Read more

After parking and keeping the 3Runner for a bit I agree. I would definitely pick one up if I got a good deal and needed something similar. Read more

I didn’t think about this, but not bad. Read more

Hmm... maybe. Read more

This is all sort of dependent on many factors tied to time and place, though I encourage anyone to make that calculation for a specific area and time. Using weather balloon readings you could get a decent estimate of this. Read more

You’re right, thanks! Read more

Wait, legitimately? Email me matt@jalopnik.com Read more

Everyone go read this book now Read more

Too late, buddy. I’ve been there before. I know it’s great. I’m coming back! Read more

I demanded, then, that they discontinue the car to hide my embarrassment. Read more

Agreed. I love the idea of the zipper merge and we’ve sad nice things about it here, but the constant promotion seems to underscore its ineffectiveness. Read more

The only time you ever see successful zipper merges are when they’re mostly unintentional on maybe a 55 mph tops road and it happens spontaneously. Get enough police officers involved and maybe. Read more

I found driving in Poland to be a pretty pleasant experience. Maybe we just replace all of our drivers with Polish drivers and it’ll be fine. Read more

There are so many sedans of this era that look identical, but not the Peugeot 505. You can’t miss it if you see one.

I just said “hey.” I don’t know what’s wrong with that. Read more

Every day I’d call or instant message Mate and ask him where that video was. Eventually, I got like 30 hours of unedited footage of Mate crossing the caucuses speaking mostly Hungarian. Read more

The first car I broke was my first press car, which was a Caliber SRT4, but they sent me another one. That’s the pothole above. Read more