mspinelli
Mike Spinelli
mspinelli
Founded Jalopnik. Coasted on that shit for years.

Good point. This was a marketing buy in advance of a new product; they weren't producing a viable product. Read more

Hmm. Well, sort of. Actually a composite of wood fiber and fiberglass. I guess that's not technically "wooden." I'll fix. Read more

I drove it and wrote the review for Jalopnik, but while I was there I also shot a short standup thing, and since /DRIVE's production crew shot the Patrick Long video footage, I just appropriated it to do my little "Carl Sagan on Cars" bit for /DRIVE's TEST/DRIVE series of short vids. Read more

I think it was also bad timing. A lot of them were expecting a specific Chris Harris video of a very particular Italian car. Read more

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/DRIVE shot it. It's a different format. Broader context, so not to step on the toes of one Chris Harris. Here's his take:

Unfortunately they were expecting a Chris Harris video. Can't compete with sideways. Read more

Watch the video stream of the Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight hearing, called "Waste and Abuse in National Guard Sponsorship and Marketing Contracts" today at 3:00 pm (ET): Read more

That's the $88 million question. Let's see if the committee sheds some light on that when the hearing starts at 3:00p (ET) today. You can watch the streaming video here: Read more

I'm surprised. Maybe they do mean the ungodliness of its speed. I've also heard the calibration of all the various systems has really come together on these later pre-production models. I really did find it one of the easiest, most stable cars I've driven this fast. Definitely fewer "oh whoops!" moments than my first Read more

Yeah, where did I come up with that? I think I slipped the Veyron's price in there. Tanks Read more