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Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Buying used is an exercise in compromise. You save money, but you also inherit somebody else’s miles, questionable parking habits, and whatever they decided counted as regular maintenance. Some people can’t imagine rolling those pre-owned dice, and others would sooner walk everywhere than endure first-year depreciation personally.…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover When thousands of tons of crude oil rupture into the ocean, it turns into a ticking time bomb. Oil has a lower physical density than seawater, causing it to float on the surface. Currents and wave action then spread the toxic sheen across vast square miles of…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover The world is basically on fire and falling apart, in no small part thanks to our continued ambivalence towards climate change. But fear not, as the U.S. government is doing everything it can to keep that global warming gravy train going while telling everyone those bad greenhouse…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover The Geo Tracker is a curious little off-roader that debuted in the very late 1980s. It was the product of a partnership between both Suzuki and General Motors, a relationship that began back in 1981, when GM purchased a 5.3% stake in Suzuki. The idea behind this partnership…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover As much as we are fans of speed and power, the system has checks and balances just so things don’t get out of hand. Sure, going fast is fun and everything, but going fast can come with consequences when it all goes wrong. While authorities set the legal…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover “Race on Sunday, sell on Monday” remains one of the greatest marketing strategies ever, but in the late 1980s, it was more like “Race on Sunday and really, really hope to sell on Monday” for German automaker Audi. That’s because it had been embroiled in some very…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Washing a car is a considerably quicker task with a pressure washer than by hand. However, using a pressure washer haphazardly can turn a routine cleaning job into an expensive repair, as the concentrated jet of water can damage paint, clear coat, rubber seals, and exterior trim,…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover Car enthusiasts love a good list. They run in our head much like a well-oiled machine, at the ready for any recommendation or suggestion asked of us like cars we hate but love, the best car for a teen driver, or ones we steer friends from due…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover “Grand Theft Auto” has been one of the world’s biggest gaming franchises since it launched almost 30 years ago. The most recent installment, “Grand Theft Auto V,” released in 2013, and the hotly anticipated follow up is finally scheduled to debut in November. Gamers have been waiting for…

Add Jalopnik on Google: Preferred Source Google Discover There are cheap sports cars, and then there are sports cars whose prices make you wonder what, exactly, happened. A 20-year-old car being worth less than it was when new is hardly breaking news, so simply finding something fun below $10,000 isn’t enough for this list. We’re…