a Dodge engineer once told me the company specced 275 all-seasons as the base Hellcat tire “because it’s a burnout machine, it’s never gonna get traction anyway” Read more

buying a car from Brian requires a lot of bravery Read more

Talking about tire width and demons is the strange niche jumping off point for a random piece of information that lives in my head. Read more

Brian Silvestro the guy I bought it from had it mounted up with the 4 Heavily worn Blizzaks, which I sold for $50. This was not the 6 speed car he thought he was going to go Ice Racing with.  I got 5 new tires because the spare was the original Continental with no tread at all, just polished rubber.

now share a pic of the nine-wheeled vehicle these tires are going on Read more

Here is a 245/55 16, its a big and thick tire

Nice review. Looks? Everyone said the same thing about the e66 7-series by Bangle, which then went on to be the highest selling luxury sedan in history. Within five years, every manufacturer was copying the Bangle butt. Mercedes still hasn’t figured out what to do with car rear end design, since then. Fan boys need to… Read more

The video and channel mentioned here are have been taken down, but an exact (as far as I can tell) copy, with a slightly different channel handle (@mercedesbenz992) is currently up. They seem particularly persistent, whoever they are. Read more

On the same day I drove this SUV, BMW also let me test the new M2 coupe (stay tuned for that review in a couple weeks). I legit had more fun in the XM. Read more

Let’s put the lawyers in a plane that's going down and see if they still believe that garbage. Read more

This same scam happened to two YouTube accounts I follow a couple weeks ago. They get their way into a legitimate account then change everything about it, name, logo, description and use the accounts followers number to appear legitimate. It really sucks for the account owners since the account eventually gets banned… Read more

They were partnered about a decade ago! The Mercedes B250e was a Tesla/Mercedes collaboration. Tesla supplied the whole drivetrain, though neutered quite a bit from any other Tesla offerings at the time

there was about 5 seconds where we truly thought Mercedes and Tesla had partnered in secret and forgot to tell Jalopnik Read more

Yes. Scan that QR code and your life will definitely change. Read more

Honestly, it took the Jalopnik staff a moment to figure out that this was a fraud. Read more

People think that they are supposed to have some kind of emotional outburst when things like this happen, but that’s pure Hollywood. Shock causes us to emotionally shut-down until we know things are truly safe again.  Read more

As much as I detest the whole social media influencer/podcast BS that seems to so define our era - going after them this way may be a tad strong... Read more

“SUP Y’ALL! WE’RE HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A WARZONE TRYING TO PREVENT THOSE GUYS OVER THERE FROM ADVANCING FURTHER INTO OUR TERRITORY OVER HERE BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, MAKE SURE TO BOMB THAT LIKE BUTTON AND SUBSCRIBE!!!”
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your public Kinja profile will never show any details about the Google/Facebook/Twitter account you use to log in. if you want to be extra careful, you can create a burner Google account and connect it to your Kinja Read more

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