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Mercedes Streeter
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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
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Uncle Tony’s Garage is wrong a lot nowadays. His usually uninformed whining about EVs was annoying enough. Then he spent a whole hour deepthroating Robby Starbuck’s verifiably false claims about “wokeness”:

The entire existence of StreetSpeed717. He’s a transphobic dick who pollutes water for fun and thinks the laws shouldn’t apply to him because he’s a good ol’ boy. The $58k fine he got wasn’t harsh enough. Read more

David Tracy famously left groceries in the beds of pickup trucks and under snow in his backyard. I’m pretty sure I drank one of yard beers right before he left Detroit. :) Read more

Exactly. If prices actually go down, Trump will be credited as a genius. If things keep getting more expensive (which, I mean...) then Trump and his base will blame Democrats even though the Republicans currently control the entire darn federal government right. I mean come on, we already have a whole four years of Read more

I forgot to mention that a $100 truck is likely to be rusty, but even a nicer one is so dirt cheap. The hard part is getting access to the auctions, but a service like Japan Car Direct can get you in for a fee. Ugh, yeah, there’s like a fee for everything if you’re not personally an importer. Read more

I wonder what the TSA doesn’t catch? They joke about making a guy throw grenade-shaped hot sauce away, but how many guns get through? Read more

I say modestly as the Brabus ForTwo maintains the standard model’s 70 horsepower turbo triple engine. It does have remapped shift points for the five-speed auto manual... Read more

I see a couple of issues with the guy’s claims. For one, he just sat there, seatbelt on, letting the car drive him in circles. If he wanted the car to stop all he had to do was interfere with its controls. Sounds like if the car was driving toward a boat ramp he’d just let it happen. lol Read more

I think spookiness is talking about having to parallel park with the unwashed masses rather than your parking skill. :) I still see some Chicagoans park “by braille” and they don’t even have the courtesy to leave a note behind after leaving a mark on someone else’s bumper. Read more

Thank you! There are way too many questions than answers thus far. The 737 has enough redundancies that it seems implausible that the aircraft post-bird strike was somehow controllable down to the runway, but not controllable enough to deploy the gear (which has a manual gravity drop function) or the flaps, which also Read more

In this case, it means the aircraft, a Van’s Aircraft RV-10, is a homebuilt. Here’s a decent explanation from Controller.com: Read more

In Chicago, a writer in an Uber went up against another driving a personal car and a third taking the train. The results were even more pro-transit — the train took 64 minutes, while the Uber took 92 and the personal vehicle 100. Read more

Ugh, why couldn’t the MAGA civil war happen back in October or early November or something? Oh, who am I kidding, they would have still voted Trump, anyway... Read more

Wonder if Bradley, Mercedes or one of your readers would let you have a bike tasting?
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I wrote about it over at the “other site.” I haven’t worked here in over two years, but I’m still a daily reader. :) Yes, it’s crazy fun! Slow, but crazy fun! Read more

By my count, the entire Jalop staff has 19 vehicles, not including vehicles owned by spouses. Wait a minute... Checks inventory... Read more