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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 mean Toyota already sells a bunch of hybrids, what’s one more on the fire? lol  Read more

In fairness, if you watch the video closely, the car initially plows into an SUV hard enough to send it spinning while the car just continues on beaten to crap. So the initial crash could have definitely been a case of mistaken pedals. Read more

The pilots in the Ethiopian crash knew how to disable MCAS and did so once the system activated. They should have then been able to manually adjust the trim, but they were not able to overcome the forces on the stab. Investigators figured out that they had the engines in TOGA thrust for the entire flight, even in the Read more

Thank you. It’s easy to dismiss a pilot’s job as babysitting computers, but I know I’d rather trust my life to a human rather than a computer when the shit hits the turbofan. Read more

Ah, I forgot about those. I should buy one of those conversions one day just to see what it’s like! :) Read more

Oh yes, I’ve been shopping for an E-350 for a while! Sadly, I had to divert those funds to the tooth mechanic, so that’ll be a 2025 purchase. I had a 6.0 Power Stroke van back in 2020 and I loved it. Read more

Buc-ee’s is absolutely run by terrible people, but as an honest question, is there a gas station chain that isn’t run by ghouls of some sort?  Read more

I try to stay away from making assumptions about the people who drive certain vehicles unless they’re dumb enough to plaster their vehicles with Confederate flags or whatever. Read more

It’s just a weirdly-worded sentence. It happens from time to time. :) I think I might have done worse... Ooof!

The FBI theory was that he didn’t survive the jump, not that he never arrived at the ground. Some of the stolen cash began washing up, possibly indicating that something happened, but they never found a body. Read more

I’ve had an intrusive thought about these decommissioned scooters. Buy one, put the stickers back on, place it in a high-traffic area, and watch confused people try to rent it. Read more

Yeah, but the reader didn’t say that. If they said “customized Jeep” I would have agreed, especially if we’re talking about those awful angry face grilles. But they just said the Gladiator, claiming that it does nothing well. It’s a truck with a Jeep badge. Maybe not the greatest truck, but clearly a product with Read more

Not going to lie, I’m pretty disappointed in the Jalop community on this one.

You can see cooler stuff than this by going to any Gambler 500. :D This looks like the rich guy version of the Ford Festiva I chopped up years ago. Read more

Trying to register a car with a damaged title has been the worst ongoing DMV experience I’ve had for about two years now. Read more

And what the hell does diabetes have to do with cross-country racing?
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I doubt we’d be looking at a huge explosion here, but something more like an engine failure. Read more