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

Plus, waving “thanks” in traffic when someone lets you in is just like, common courtesy. I’m not opening my window when it’s Satan’s Ballsack hot outside to do that. This whole no rear window idea just gets the hardest of nopes from me.
Read more

Former Jalopnik writer chiming in: did you completely miss my open stanning of the Cayenne, both on here and off? I still need one so I can tow my Porsche with a Porsche, for the record.
Read more

Gosh, I wanna say it was on the Regular Car Reviews subreddit, or in one of the longer-form podcasts. May have been a podcast he appeared on, too. Can’t remember exactly where.
Read more

RCR is the only person I’ve ever watched/read who can pull off a HST impersonation/take-off.
Read more

Way late to this party (this got linked in a more recent RCR piece), but I actually respect that they’ve done some self-reflection over the years, and realized that some things might be hurtful that they didn’t intend to be that way. We’ve grown as a society since then and, uh...the rhubarb part. It’s the rhubarb Read more

I think part of the issue RCR has with these many-thousands-pounds heavier trucks is, well, they’re inherently going to cause more wear and tear on unpaved trails. A big full-size R1T full of batteries is going to wear away trails faster than your average (far lighter!) Jeep. I remember Victoria Scott voicing the same Read more

The weave blowing out was what happened on my 944. It looked like a turtle head when we took the back half of the exhaust off. Revved it sans muffler and it pooped right out.
Read more

Heh, our solution when my 944's cat went bad was to straight-pipe that section. No cat, no care over here—Texas ages out vehicles from emissions requirements, for better or for worse. Read more

^ Thiiiiis. If an e-bike gets more people on two wheels, I’m for it.
Read more

E-bikes are a hell of a lot of fun. I’d love to have one for the killer hill by my house—I’m just trying to fart around downtown, not train for alpine climbs, man. It’s a lot less expensive to just walk my regular bike up the steep grade, though.
Read more

The timing of this announcement seems...less than ideal.
Read more

Gosh, that’s cool. I feel like the rarity miiiiiight justify the price, even if I’d offer a bit less.
Read more