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Mercedes Streeter
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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

Sometime in 2019, I ran my 2012 Smart Fortwo low on oil and took too long to correct it. I took it off-roading and bumped the oil pan into something, causing a very slow seep, but one still worth looking at. Read more

Yeah, the media landscape is completely different than when even I grew up reading those same magazines in the 2000s. Read more

Give that CRJ a canard and it’ll instantly look like a Burt Rutan design. lol Read more

I know! I tend to like vintage liveries over the modern stuff, but I dig it! Read more

Fun fact: Eastern Air Express is a division of the reanimated corpse of Eastern Airlines.

Rogan said Clarkson and the BBC did “Elon [Musk] dirtier than anybody ever did” with their review of the Tesla.
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I’ve been known to put lots of stickers on the windows of my cars, but harmless stuff like cylinder counts, Gambler 500 event stickers, Autopian stickers, and whatnot. Read more

Based on my experience riding in my wife’s car? Political stickers, especially particularly strong opinions that are the opposite of the opinions shared by most in the region you’re driving through. Read more

“Can you actually go off-roading in this car, without four-wheel drive? I guess there’s only one way to find out.” Read more

Heck, even vintage Keis were huge on space. Here’s my 1989 Suzuki Every and 1991 Honda Beat next to my 2016 Smart Fortwo:

Most old articles survived Univision and now G/O ownership. The same cannot be said for photos. G/O’s legal department demanded the deletion of most old photos, including some of Torch’s drawings, so those are gone forever. Read more

Oh please oh please explain what you think DEI is. While we’re at it, I’d love to see you stumble to explain what you think “woke” is. Read more