You guys have put together some of my favorite car stories and articles here! But you deserve better. See you over at the Autopian! Read more

I’ve edited this image to include a (bone stock, as near as I can tell) 2011 Ranger, doing my best to keep the scale true by looking up wheelbases and adjusting the pixel measurement accordingly.

Upon seeing bad parking, there’s a part of me always wants to ask: “Nice parking job. Did you do that yourself, or did you have help?” Read more

Hey I just replaced my neighbor’s broken GMT800 tailgate handle the other day too! (And yes, the bezel was missing, so I installed one of those too haha.) The handle would only pull one side of the linkage, and you had to reach in to release the other side. It should never take two hands to open a tailgate! Read more

Yes! I share your frustration about cars driving around (in the dark) without taillights. A lot of it seems to come from people getting too comfortable with their car’s automatic DRLs, and hopefully traffic stops will still happen for those driving in the dark without tails. Maybe what they meant by “a broken… Read more

It’s possible that the SEALs may have adopted it from the “father of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu” Mitsuyo Maeda. It’s useful advice for so many different disciplines, and is certainly very relevant for developing muscle memory for physical combat! Read more

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” Read more

Once, in a company car. Read more

My brother used a red-colored tape to match the body of his Lumina Carlo after a collision. Unfortunately, the tape faded to yellow before long LOL
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One of the Mustang forums I joined when I bought my car underwent a redesign a few years ago that deleted a bunch of old threads. Among the casualties were several noobish posts of mine. How convenient! Read more

I first encountered these on a HHR, and immediately wondered why some previous owner must have gone to all the trouble of installing such a shiny colorful aftermarket piece that offered such a negligible weight saving that no one would ever see. Especially when there were no other “racer” parts on the vehicle. But to… Read more

The 7 Series was doing a pretty damn good job of identifying marketing bullshit. The only “emotional” “experience” I’m getting out of this ad is how strongly I agree with the 7 Series’ assessment. What a disaster of a campaign. Read more

Man, I wish I could link my old write-up on Oppositelock, but alas it’s been Kinja’d... Electrolysis was the method that I used to clean out the rusty innards of my father’s old motorcycle fuel tank. Worked like a charm!

...why Italian officials didn’t just use a helicopter to transport the kidney.

Y’know, part of me was hoping that it was gonna be a Texas trooper using this “lasso”, but hell yeah Arizona’s close enough! That was AWESOME Read more

Rust converter sprayer on one end, Fluid Film sprayer on the other Read more

From Zoom Zoom to zzzz zzzz Read more

Oppositelock’s getting the boot from Kinja deeply saddens me. I discovered Jalopnik in 2014, and joined up with Oppo the following year. I quickly found Oppo to be a corner of the internet that I could call home. The vague but powerful rule of be excellent to each other was a cornerstone to our community, which I hope… Read more