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Raphael Orlove
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Raphael Orlove is features editor for Jalopnik.

every day the great Blog God grants us a bounty of many stories to write Read more

andrew collins wanted one for the longes to turn into a buggy Read more

one hundred years ago, an evil wizard cursed me to forever re-cycle my life every 3-7 years (in line with product cycles) and forever only think about cars and be unable not to endlessly rant about them Read more

oh god so the Vega is about to come out? I don’t know, scream at everyone responsible for like a week, cry for another week, and then find all the cranks who did Corvair stuff and had been hidden away in a storage closet to prep a bunch of small cars that aren’t cramped and pointless Read more

did you get with the HR engine or the early one? I’m just curious Read more

nah not this year, not after the Yugo’s rust spread to the nearby Mitsubishi stand and wrecked all their cars Read more

what interested me more was the stuff going on with inventory and discounts, which seemed more like the big differentiator between pre- and post-GM, at least from what I’m looking at Read more

turns out the prototypes of the RAV4 EV in its early days were also tested with apparently those same lead-acid batteries that the EV1 got: Read more

excuse me! I was thinking of the lead-acid batteries that were on some of those things Read more

I remember reading through some of this early stuff on the RAV4 EV, which was offered with both different kinds of chemistries. Read more

mmm! this is why lots of people (and governments) prefer to measure and rate with liters per 100 km Read more