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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

I had a laugh at the guy who brought his Datsun 1200 wagon. It was beautiful, but was definitely a fish out of water at this show.

That’s the part that gets me. AB bowed to the whiners and they didn’t stop boycotting. Even worse, gay bars stopped selling Bud Light in solidarity so it was two boycotts in one. Read more

Never a car itself, but what that car is displaying. I live in an area where several people have Confederate flags plastered all over their cars and flying from their flagpoles. I don’t care how cool your car and truck are, I’m not going to think highly of you for flying these flags. Read more

Those emergency roof hatches aren’t going to do jack if you’re going 6 mph and I further doubt their effectiveness on a near 100-degree day if the rest of the windows are closed. I used to own a school bus and that thing was a gosh-darned death box unless every single window was open. Read more

So, to the ban everything guy, why are you at a car site again? Most of what you hate is perfectly harmless. You’re getting your blood pressure up over nothing. Oh no, flame decals, someone call the authorities! Read more

Honestly, after owning each of the Piech Trifecta (W8, Phaeton, Touareg V10 TDI), I think the W8 is actually the easiest to own. Read more

Re: The CR-Z. People were expecting the CR-Z to be like the CRX (the American market CRX does not have a hyphen) because that’s the baseline set by Honda itself. At press events, Honda was so confident about the CR-Z that it had journalists drive the CRX first before switching to the CR-Z. Heck, Honda said one of the Read more

Cars that don’t fit the theme. I recently attended a show where the theme was vintage transport with the backdrop of historic trains. As such, the event was open to anything 21 years old or older. It was great! I saw vintage Mack trucks, a Routemaster bus, some sweet Studebakers, even an air-cooled VW I’ve never seen Read more

Gosh, what a trip and what a beautiful car!

LOL it is not. Some people board up every time there’s a protest (regardless of who is protesting) because there’s always some dick who uses a protest as an excuse to break stuff. But it’s not “Chicago is all boarded up.” Read more

You’re right, of course. The Bud Light double boycott (because the LGBTQ community ended up doing their own boycott) cost AB lots of money, but in the end the company is still raking in profits. Read more

So, this whole “Harley-Davidson is woke” thing happened because Harley realized it needed to bring more people into the brand. Harley’s typical customers are getting too old to ride. It’s bad for business if your customer base is shrinking with every year. Read more

Just about any modern Cadillac concept, but not because the concepts themselves are bad. It doesn’t matter which one, but let’s just say the Sixteen if you want to be specific. They all look gorgeous and preview a future where Cadillac could become “The Standard Of The World” again.

If nobody is injured and the cars can still drive home I’m not going to be the one calling the cops. Maybe it’s just bad luck (or skin a smidge too brown or identity too trans) but there has only ever been one situation in my life that has been made better by the presence of cops. Read more

Some departments do use little Cessnas for the job! I know CSP (Colorado) has a speed enforcement 172. Read more

It’s funny you mention the snowflake thing. Seeing how many Boomer and Gen X politicians freak out at the existence of gay people and, gasp, independent women, they might be the real snowflakes there. Read more

The aircraft usually stay between 12,000 and 15,000-feet elevation so road users often can’t tell when they’re being monitored. Read more

I browsed inventories of the link you provided and I saw that used 1998 Nissan Skyline GT-T R34 coupe which is japanese 435i / 335i coupe was sold for $44,000 ?? For that money, you might as well buy either used 2018 Nissan Skyline V37 / Infiniti Q60 3.0T or used 2018 Lexus RC-F for a same price
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But with that said (and damn Kinja’s editing window), some of this stuff is inexcusable. It brings me pain when the pictures are 95% ground and 5% car, or are uncropped screenshots from when the seller bought the car. Portrait pictures of cars for sale also grind my gears. You only get like 25% of the car in any given Read more