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Lawrence Hodge
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Staff Writer at Jalopnik. Dad. Lover of all things with 4 wheels. Weird interest in buses.

Heading to the show Monday, thanks for the cheat sheet of vehicles to be on the lookout for!

Interesting. While I can appreciate a conservative approach to distribution, there should probably be a mechanism to respond to supply being so far behind demand. Plus, that system you describe sure sounds like it would generate some feedback loops that favor existing products, and handcuff new ones. Read more

Ford’s dealerships cranked the sleaze dial up to 11 during the last two years. Read more

Car insurance is a product you are forced to buy if you want to drive on US roads, the companies that sell insurance are not all that well regulated, and they can arbitrarily decide to jack up insurance rates or even choose to not cover certain car models as seen here. They also do absolutely everything they can to Read more

Yoooo, Turo is hell. I have rented though them without any issues for a long time. Super pleasant until there was the one time where something went wrong. Turo 100% protects the hosts of the vehicles and loves damage claims because they stick 20% on top. Its free money to them and the more the hosts scam the more they Read more

How did someone making under $18/hour and with $20k in debt get an auto loan for that much?

Let’s not forget about the HS 250h, which lasted from 2010-2012.

I don’t understand why companies make this so hard. Read more

The GR86 is a Celica. The first three generations were light weight, RWD, sporty cars, and the 7th gen weighed 2550lbs, had a 8k redline, and 100hp/L and did quite well in SCCA. It was only really the fifth and sixth gen that was heavy, but even then, only in the turbo AWD guise. Read more

I like it. But for less money you can get a G70 3.3T that will run all over this thing.

I only have 2 items to checkout in the grocery line so I demand that you step aside with your 30 items so I can check out first

I’m... not angry about this? The average person is an inconsiderate moron. This reminds me of the time I had to yell at someone at the gas station. All the pumps were taken except for one pair of pumps on one side... and I was behind another vehicle and they pulled up and stopped at the FIRST PUMP without pulling Read more

He mirrored the content to a server and made people pay to access the server via an app called GearsTV and ReloadedTV. He then laundered the money he made from this via real estate, businesses, and likely all of the cars. It’s definitely possible he used the YouTube channel too.

I think the part that makes me regard him as a “basic bitch” is the sheer stupidity of brazenly flaunting one’s illegitimate wealth on YouTube. I mean...who does that? It seems like there’s no faster way to attract the attention of the FBI, IRS and any other haters. And the YouTube channel can’t have added much to his Read more

The very loud San Francisco Bike Coalition, the MTA, and the US Census publishes statistics on bike usage. Less than 3% of San Francisco city residents bicycle at all; of those only 1.2% ever bike part way or all the way to work; the rest bike recreationally, rarely in the city. None do it daily. (Worth noting that Read more

I don’t know if you can post this or not, but so you know, Mr. Becker, the aggressor, was a disabled veteran who was suffering, among other things, from PTSD. His actions are typical of many PTSD vets who get in “trigger” situations and react violently. This story is sad from so many angles and neither Mr. Becker nor Read more

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I just post this video any time I see a story like this. Maybe some of the so-called “men” that think holding a gun makes them tough will get the message.

As a SoCal resident, I will admit that this recent spike is a major annoyance. But how does making sure buyers aren’t getting shorted at the pump preventprice gouging’? Did someone change the definition of that term? Read more

I mostly agree, but then again this IS the government, it’s gonna take its sweet time paying out.  It’s kind of like if you owe the government or a bank or whatever money that want it YESTERDAY, but if they owe you, well you’ll get it, eventually.