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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

Reading the synopsis of this movie is certainly no help figuring out what the heck is going on. Read more

I once traveled with a friend in his V10 Excursion. It got 10 mpg empty, 10 mpg hauling a race car and 10 mpg in traffic. The average mpg indicator never changed from 10.0 mpg. Read more

I saw that video too (I chose not to embed it here considering it’s basically watching people die) and yeah, it really does look like something really wrong was happening. I hope the investigation actually turns out a real explanation. Read more

I’ve never even heard of these before! Thank you for giving me a rabbit hole to fall down. :) Read more

This was originally written on Friday, when the BaT auction had it pegged at a reasonable $8k and change. Wowie did the price skyrocket since then!  Read more

All of that is perhaps quite true! But after driving David’s craptacular Valiant I am now a fan. Read more

Does she pat the car on the dash and tell it that it’s been a good car? That’s what I do with mine and they’ve treated me well thus far. Read more

I’m right with there my Audi B5-loving friend. I’ve been a reader here almost ten times longer than I’ve been a writer and I too am saddened by some of the comments. Read more

(1) I have some seat time in iRacing and highly recommend it. I’d say it’s about as close as you can get to driving a car without leaving your house. Read more

To give a further hint at what I plan on replacing my spare VW Jetta SportWagen TDI with, the engine’s displacement is 5.9-liters and it’s old enough to drink alcohol. Read more

Funny enough, my city doesn’t care. My condo association did, but I’ve reached an agreement with them that I’m satisfied with. One of these days I have to hunker down and tell that crazy thing. It blew up way bigger than DT’s thing and involved two year-long lawsuits! Read more

My fiancée wants a Maverick as her first new car in a while. I mean, this is something that gets within spitting distance of her Prius fuel economy but can also easily haul the car and motorcycle crap that I buy. The truck’s a win/win for her situation.
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Out of the five Smarts I’ve owned only one was unreliable, and it was the one I later learned was cobbled together from three dead Smarts. Read more

Oh yeah, it’s definitely an excuse for...I’m still not sure what happened there. Read more

I can explain that one. An early draft of this called it the “second largest” in the sub-headline based on what another site wrote about this plane. Later in research I figured out that the site was totally wrong. They took a quote from the Navy and misinterpreted it. Looks like the mistake from the early draft made Read more

I love the way you think...but my bank account is already telling me to forget it. Maybe I can expense it. lol Read more