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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

Hertz Is So Desperate To Unload Tesla Inventory It’s Asking Customers If They Just Want To Keep Their Rentals Read more

Also, Colorado was looking to ban way more than Keis. It also targeted surplus military vehicles (unless the owner was a government entity) and vintage military vehicles. Read more

A couple of notes. The Drive was not the first to report this. The poster of that reddit thread reached out to me directly hours before the Drive posted. :) Read more

It should be noted that we didn’t get the V10 TDI in the Phaeton. If you wanted the V10 TDI in America you had to buy a Touareg like I did. Read more

You just tie your big airship to a building and hope it’s still there in the morning. lol Read more

This whole thing is stupid. There’s almost nobody who wants to pay more money to get somewhere slower. The people who are sick of tiny airplane seats and have money will just upgrade to first class, not book a ride on a luxury airship that’s slower than their car. Read more

I have no idea what that means. I broke up with her after a few months. We just weren't even close to being in the same place in life or even on the same page in the bedroom either. Hope she's doing well! Read more

I’ve somehow seen worse: A $2,000/mo payment on a then-new Challenger Scat Pack on a several-year loan. Most of the payment had nothing to do with the car itself. What gives? Well, the girl I was dating had a knack for driving fast cars, but never actually making more than a few months of payments. Her previous cars Read more

My dad once told me “its better to stay warm than have to get warm”. 
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That being said, one year I did “darkside” a maxi-scooter with car snow tires. It was entertaining how much traction I had, but I don’t recommend it. I would say to go with studs, but they’re almost certainly illegal for road use where you live. Read more

I’ve been riding every winter since I got my license in 2018. I still do things the old-school way. I bundle up in LOTS of layers and hit the tarmac looking like I ate an entire cow or something. But, I do stay pretty toasty. I’m looking forward to seeing how your approach works!

I mean Toyota already sells a bunch of hybrids, what’s one more on the fire? lol  Read more

In fairness, if you watch the video closely, the car initially plows into an SUV hard enough to send it spinning while the car just continues on beaten to crap. So the initial crash could have definitely been a case of mistaken pedals. Read more

The pilots in the Ethiopian crash knew how to disable MCAS and did so once the system activated. They should have then been able to manually adjust the trim, but they were not able to overcome the forces on the stab. Investigators figured out that they had the engines in TOGA thrust for the entire flight, even in the Read more

Thank you. It’s easy to dismiss a pilot’s job as babysitting computers, but I know I’d rather trust my life to a human rather than a computer when the shit hits the turbofan. Read more

Ah, I forgot about those. I should buy one of those conversions one day just to see what it’s like! :) Read more

Oh yes, I’ve been shopping for an E-350 for a while! Sadly, I had to divert those funds to the tooth mechanic, so that’ll be a 2025 purchase. I had a 6.0 Power Stroke van back in 2020 and I loved it. Read more