stefschrader
Stef Schrader
stefschrader
Moderator, OppositeLock. Former Staff Writer, Jalopnik. 1984 "Porschelump" 944 race car, 1971 Volkswagen 411 race car, 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS.

Yeah—I remember the later Caddies from the ‘90s being more pastel pink than mauve.
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Subway’s about as fresh as the spoiled contents of my fridge that are slowly roasting in the compost bin outside right now, but this is a great idea. Honestly, the best part of testing that Taycan over in Germany a few years back were the plazas along the Autobahn. The best ones had two essential road trip items: 1. pl Read more

those chili cheese dogs and tots tho = *chef’s kiss*
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...okay, but how well does it play with my Type 4's carbs? That’s the real question I want to know. Ethanol can go straight to gummy hell and while I like the idea of alternative fuels that cause less damage to produce, they shouldn’t accelerate the decline of my garbage car sons, either.
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Ha! Our Sedan de Ville was Antelope Firemist. Even had a matching vinyl quarter-top.
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Gosh, that is CLEAN. We had an ‘89 Sedan de Ville when I was a kid, and it was a great car. Folks rag on these for not making a lot of power for a V8 and for being FWD, but this is a land yacht—it needs to be comfortable, not necessarily fast. As a big GM car should, it could fly along comfortably at [redacted] MPH on Read more

You’re all still dead to me for not buying me a Paris-Dakar 959, though. <3 Read more

See, this is part of why I think the 997.1 RS might be the one to have for repeated trackday hoonery: the best color combos, still very manual with three damn pedals and a stick, not as big as later generations of the 911, no silly egg headlamps, and notably, NO CENTERLOCKS.
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not hooning the living daylights out of this vehicle should be a criminal offense
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I want to send this so hard. I’ve never wanted to send anything more in my life, but this? My gosh. I would send it and then send it some more. It must be sent. The 911 Dakar is begging: “Send Me.” It belongs in low-earth orbit, competing with satellites for send height and duration. I’m glad they’ve though about Read more

This rules. Kinda reminds me of the heavily metalflaked black that Ferrari’s got now.
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You laugh, but $250K in parshverlanding Taycan vs. $250K in Austin’s housing market...uhhhhh would my Puffalump collection fit in the parsh?
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I think it’s a “I ran out of space” kinda deal, or a nice solution if you end up in places with rocky ground a lot. Granted, you could probably swap the tent for a “stuff I use less” storage pod to the same effect, and sleeping pads exist for ground camping, too, but I camp out pretty regularly, and not gonna lie, the Read more

Man, $70 is big pimpin’. I think I bought my not-balls-frozen-cold-weather one for like €15ish at Decathlon because I wanted that space in my ‘ring trip bag for weird beers to bring.
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Yeah, the dude absolutely seems like the right pick here.
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It’s more rounded, though. Sleeker. More coherent than whatever’s going on here.
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