pgeorge
Patrick George
pgeorge
Editor-in-Chief @ Jalopnik, 2015-2019.

Oh man, I’m jealous. Bet that little thing was a riot.  Read more

They just don’t write about it. Ask the one guy who now does comms for a major automaker (I won’t say who) that rolled a Bentley on a press trip and then begged people on the trip not to say anything because it was “bad for his brand.” Or ask Motor Trend about the GT3 RS they wrote off. This shit happens all the time, Read more

Statewide it’s 31, though sadly that is likely to rise with 200+ unaccounted for. That’s the only “official” toll I have seen.  Read more

I’m no expert on 60s Chevys, but I’d tell him to hit up some owner forums to learn about specific red flags and look for the usual stuff: rust, hoses, belt, wiring, see if it was generally taken care of. Those old cars aren’t that complicated.  Read more

Ugh, those manual wagons are so rare. I know this because I was looking for a while. You should go for it.  Read more

Not a great idea. Just keep it a few years and sell it before the warranty expires. Read more

Yeah Mike tries to make the Lexus a real, actual car for driving, not just an insane vanity project for blogs, so it gets work done properly  Read more

I ORDER HIM TO BUY AN OLD RX-7 ONCE A WEEK BUT HE NEVER LISTENS, HE JUST KEEPS BUYING JEEPS Read more

I worked at my college newspaper, got a journalism degree in college, and worked as a metro reporter at a big daily newspaper for several years. I mainly covered crime and law enforcement, but I did a bunch of car-related freelance writing on the side for extra cash and because I knew my stuff and just enjoyed doing Read more

Porsche Taycan. Can’t wait to see how Porsche does a full-on EV. Read more

Personally, I hate the slideshow. It has ads every couple of pictures. I’m saving you from ads!  Read more

I think all this stuff is decades, maybe even a century, away from being a pressing concern. Deployment of fully autonomous cars is going to take a lot longer than the 5-10 years Silicon Valley claims to fish for venture capital money. Read more

No plans for that, but we actively monitor the comments for shitheads. And we look pretty closely at people’s history before issuing the banhammer. Read more

Oh yeah, Aaron has an STI. That’s probably the fastest.  Read more

In all honesty: writers proofread (or are supposed to), daily news blogs get a read from an editor or possibly two, and then longer features and especially big reported stories get multiple layers of edits. Read more

It’s like a Jetta, but replacing the wiring harness isn’t “preventative maintenance”  Read more