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

The interior being a carbon copy of the BMW is a huge turn-off to me and signals that Toyota really didn’t want to allocate any resources of their own on this project.” Read more

I don’t like it, but I am glad they didn’t go full tilt boogie with it. We don’t need another LFA, NSX or GTR that only a select few can buy, that you’ll hardly ever see on the road. This is well within budget for millions of people. They could have resurrected the Supra nameplate and built another $100-200k halo car, Read more

Dear 2001 ItalDesign: This just looks awful. It’s like you duct taped every seam of an Aston Martin for absolutely no reason. But to be fair... Read more

ROUGHLY preliminary like how my efforts to become a professional racecar driver are roughly preliminary. Read more

This also appears to be the first Japanese car built by Magna-Steyr (former Steyr-Daimler-Puch) facility in Graz, Austria. The same people that gave you the G-class, Pinzgauers, various Euro market Jeeps and AWD VW’s.  Read more

Tada doesn’t strike me as the type of guy that makes a lot of mistakes. If he found it necessary to compromise, I feel like we can trust his reasoning. If the 86 and Supra had to have parts from other manufacturers to make it to market at (relatively) reasonable price points, I say, so be it. Read more

even if this thing weighed 2,500 pounds, had 500 horsepower, a manual gearbox, featured the second coming of the 2JZ engine and cost $30,000, people would still find reasons to complain Read more

NASCAR: Let’s get all modern and put throttle body injection with restrictor plates on the V8 RWD two door Camrys. Read more

It’s pretty difficult to judge reliability when you have a brand new car for 500-1000 miles though. Kind of hard to fault them for that. Read more

On the scale of sports car to GT car (lets say for this example a 1 is an FRS/86 and a 10 is a LC500) where does is fall? Read more

Since it’s based on a BMW, does it even have turn signals?
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How are the shift points and power band for back road driving? One of the (really picky) things I didn’t like about a manual Cayman is that once moving you just put the thing in 3rd and bomb around. Conversely, with the Giulia TI, the 5500 RPM redline with the 8 speed auto means you had to slap the paddles constantly. Read more

How’s the space for larger guys? Not just height, but width? B pillars are my left shoulder’s worst enemy when it comes to finding a fun vehicle. Read more

I guess the trick is to be there unknowingly and act all surprised and shocked at what you’ve just stumbled upon! Read more