When I started at Jalopnik, people were outraged that I didn’t have a U.S. driver’s license. How could management have hired this fool who doesn’t even know how to drive! While that’s not strictly true, as I have a UK driving license , for the job when I sat...

Racing is something that I’m all too happy to leave to the professionals. Oh sure; my ideal speed is typically slightly higher than the posted limit, but I’m not a thrill seeker desperate to push my comfort zone. I know where my limitations are and I don’t derive joy...

A good car salesman without a job can be a dangerous person. All that industry know-how under their belt can create the perfect storm for fraud if one wanted to go down that road of finessing people out of their money. That’s what happened with one Detroit car salesman....

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It was supposed to be the car that showed that still had it going into the 21st century. But some called it “too ambitious,” and in a way, it was. Surprisingly made for over seven years (from 1998 to 2005) the Shelby Series 1 was, in essence, an almost...

The other day, as I rifled through the that comprises the Jalopnik archives (it takes up half the office, and most cards have been defaced past the point of recognition with lewd comments and/or falafel recipes), I stumbled on . It was a Friday afternoon hangout, a place for...