Random note: I'm surprised how may car people in Los Angeles don't know about this, but there is a store in Burbank called Autobooks Aerobooks that sells (among other awesome auto things) old copies of car magazines like R&T. It is quite entertaining to read what car reviewers thought about the new 1970 Camaro, or…

Though I should say that it has been my experience that when someone asks an opinion of a car or reads reviews, they aren't looking for an honest opinion so much as an affirmation that the car they already decided to buy is a good car, so you will almost certainly get a lot of negative comments when you say that a… Read more

I started a meta review website a while ago (I abandoned it in favor of other pursuits) and I noticed that there were waaay too many positive reviews. The lowest car was a Dodge Caliber and it got a 56%, and if 56% of car reviewers think the Caliber is a good car, then there is something wrong with car reviews. Read more

Yea, if I lived in Albuquerque, my top priority would also be getting out of the state in any direction. Read more

I pretty much just read car blogs, assume that I'm smarter than every other commenter, and generally tip toe the line between posting smartass comments and full blown trolling. Read more

"If we can combine a ton of these "reviews" together we can have the most thorough review of them all. It's simple math." Read more

DR-Z. Next question. Read more

Because the energy was dissipated in several small impacts, instead of one large one. Next question. Read more

"A Real Life Breaking Bad Character" might be a little grandiose for this guy. Read more

I don't know if you've ever delivered pizza for a living, but in my experience this kind of industriousness is pretty impressive from a guy who has smoked 4 bowls in the last 6 hours. Read more

I love my Mini, and it gets 30MPG towing a trailer with my bike on it.

I blame Obama. Read more

I know neither company took a bailout, son. that was the whole point of my comment; you can't say Tesla took a bailout unless you say Ford took a bailout too. The truth is that neither of them did, and when they were producing the roadster Tesla had the highest gross margin in the entire automotive industry so it is… Read more

Either Ford and Tesla took bailouts, or neither Ford nor Tesla took bailouts. You have to pick one; they both got money from the same DOE loan program, brah. Read more

The goals were set by the DOE as requirements of the loan, and that loan was supposed to only given to companies who could succeed without it (though they did F that up a couple times in other cases). Read more

Tesla has met or exceeded all of its recent business goals, is "propped up" with the the same taxpayer money you were defending Ford for taking (10x as much of) just yesterday, and SpaceX just completed a wildly successful mission to the ISS (Musk spends 40+ hours a week running SpaceX). Read more

So any idea when we get to see a Jalopnik review of one? Maybe bribe one of the early owners to let you borrow it for a day? I'm dying to read it. Read more

You say "never-ending series of hot-girls-meet-sideways-car videos" like its a bad thing. Read more

I do think it is odd that in many places, Jalopnik comments chief among them, people will fervently defend Ford ("It's not a bailout, it's a DOE loan!"), and then slam Tesla as sucking on the governments teat for getting 1/10th the amount of money from the same DOE loan program. Read more

"I wake up some mornings hating me too." Read more