superfastmatt
Matt Brown
superfastmatt
Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.

Stealing another automaker’s design could prove to be bad, um... what’s the word? Read more

Still holding out hope that one day there will be an article about stupid, dangerous shit totally free of comments excusing and bragging about doing stupid, dangerous shit. Read more

Agreed, most of the more technical articles on Jalopnik lose me and my (decidedly non-technical) brain but this was interesting an easy to follow. Great job! Read more

I liked it too. Glad it got frontpaged on Gizmodo or I wouldn’t have seen it Read more

We live in a universe of entropy, where the cost of existence is degradation, and the price to pay Read more

I’ve never owned a car younger than 6 years, and my current youngest is 15 years old. I have driven other people’s brand new cars. The difference in stress level is palpable. I completely understand what you mean. Read more

welp, all boxes are checked. Official Jalop status Read more

[R1234yf] Downsides: It contains hydrogen fluoride which can turn into hydrofluoric acid if a fire breaks out. Hydrofluoric acid is nasty, nasty shit. It could also cause problems by contaminating drinking water. Read more

I’m speechless, but with 36,895 comments, I haven’t always been speechless.  This post is the best prize ever!  Thanks so much, Andrew!
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If you have something that needs a ton of work you should know you need to just send that straight to David Tracy. Read more

CAN I WRITE FOR YOU? I’m a beautiful writer. I would give myself a A+ in writing. And winning. And you can tell Alanis and that other broad I have tremendous, tremendous respect for women. Mother thinks very highly of my writing. I write better than Mexico, all of it. SAD! Read more

Nice piece on Alvis, Matt. These attractive cars are worth remembering, and the gearbox of the ‘30s was especially innovative. A small correction—I believe the 12/50 was the first Alvis to get overhead valves, not an overhead cam. Prior cars were side-valves. The 12/75 of 1928 of course got the ohc engine. Read more