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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

That Smart isn’t actually hitched up to the boat. :) Just a silly photo op that Smart owners love to do. The best hitch for a Smart is good for just 2,000 pounds of trailer and 200 pounds of tongue weight. You bet if that boat were really hitched up that poor car would be doing a wheelie. lol Read more

I would sure hope that trucks three whole decades newer are leaps and bounds better. Read more

The commenter was talking about first gens, but Collin put up a video of a third gen. I was thrown off a bit. Oops! Read more

“Too small to do ‘truck things’ and too much of a truck to have comfortable road manners; these neither fish-nor-fowl vehicles were bad at everything.” Read more

Hey now, I was the plane person here! :) Well, there was another plane person before me, but his latest exploits involve deciding to fly while wearing Apple Vision Pros, and he had more than enough hours in his logbook to know how dumb that was. Read more

He has a Figaro! But in typical Nissan Pike car fashion, it only looks like it has sealed beams. Instead, you have regular removable halogen bulbs behind glass lenses. Read more

As always, Technology Connections is great for general education, but the videos sometimes come with a caveat or a few. Read more

The tipping point for me is when even a short drive is annoying because of the mods. Read more

It varies by state and sadly, by cop. Here in Illinois, you can be ticketed for a contributing factor in failing to prevent a crash. Read more

You aren’t kidding. I went to Elkhart yesterday and spotted like 10 completely different state police cars. One was a candy red unmarked Charger with limo tint windows. Then there was a pickup truck that looked like a highway department vehicle, but it was clearly a cop truck. Read more

Sometime in 2019, I ran my 2012 Smart Fortwo low on oil and took too long to correct it. I took it off-roading and bumped the oil pan into something, causing a very slow seep, but one still worth looking at. Read more

Yeah, the media landscape is completely different than when even I grew up reading those same magazines in the 2000s. Read more

Give that CRJ a canard and it’ll instantly look like a Burt Rutan design. lol Read more

I know! I tend to like vintage liveries over the modern stuff, but I dig it! Read more