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Rory Carroll
rorycarroll
Jalopnik EIC '48 Willys CJ-2A, '84 Porsche 911, '15 VW GTI, '07 Lexus GX 470, 1995 Ford F-150.

I’d guess I have about $5k in parts so far. The GX has just over 120k now. It’s scruffy, someone did a poor quality respray at one point, the interior is a little worn but undamaged and functional. I don’t really have a hard budget in mind, just trying to be thoughtful about where I spend money. Depending on where you Read more

I may have a buyer, if not, I’ll let you know.
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I’ll have to check my messages. I definitely wouldn’t mind the added size of the LX. I did do the tailgate mod and it works well. She was struggling with moving the tire/carrier out of the way of the gate so she could open that. It may get easier over time though.
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Thanks for the recommendations! Yeah, there are a couple decent looking hidden winch setups that come with recovery points. I’ll probably bite on one of those before too long.
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I generally agree, but for our purposes, we have to decide how to write about and taxonomize different vehicles. Also, I’ve seen your YT videos, glad to know you’re a Jalopnik reader.
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Yeah, I hear that one. We’ll have four new writers coming in the next few weeks. Hopefully more to come after that.
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Liz has been doing about 15 racing posts a week, mostly on weekends. There’s actually a motorsports bar that aggregates everything but you gotta scroll for it!
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Blogs link out to other websites and have since the dawn of blogs. It would be easier to just take the information from the other site and restate it, many sites do that. But it’s considered shitty to just copy someone else’s reporting. As a courtesy, we link to the other sites.
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Yeah, seconded on the Wera stuff. I find myself reaching for it more than I expected to.
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Erik is looking into that Uber tip. We appreciate it.
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Jason, David, Raph and I just spent 2 weeks doing interviews for new writers. There are 4 more coming in the next couple weeks, you’re gonna love them.
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I had that thought too, tried a number of songs back to back from the lossless file and from Spotify and to my ear, you could tell which was which.
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Yeah, good question. I wanted to provide more context there. I’ve heard just about every car audio system that’s been released since I started reviewing cars in 2012, I have a pretty decent amount of experience in some fancy recording studios and have demoed some truly incredible home set-ups. I’m not a big audiophile Read more

I have come very close to buying a Chevy SS, so Chevy SS. The stick and V8 make it an easy question.
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The CT4 is more 3-Series, they killed the CT6 so now the CT5 is covering the old CTS and CT6 spot.
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Yeah, we’re definitely keeping an eye on it. We’ve been seeing some good growth on the site lately, and knowing that people would freak out, I was hesitant to make a change. We’re going to test until it works.
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