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Source: Jalopnik
 by KillerRacoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb |
2/4/2012 2:35 AM |
You know, I've always disliked the S2000's dual exhaust. There is absolutely no reason for it on an I4. It's nice to see that spoon-kitted one has a single exhaust. #oppositelock
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Source: Jalopnik
by MadisonSuicide |
2/4/2012 2:34 AM |
We all remember our first car, and although few of us still have it — even fewer of us probably were thoughtful enough to tell that car how we felt about it. But Kelcie Moseley did just that at Thought Catalog. Here's the letter she sent. Write your own in the comments below. —Ed.
Dear Car,
I have owned you since my junior year of high school, which was a full six years ago. You were everything I wanted — cute, affordable, approved by my mother and, most importantly, you were a car. That's all I really cared about.
But I didn't know you would become such a symbol of the past six years of my life. When we first met, I was a shadow of the girl who drives you now. And now it has come time for us to part ways; time to close that chapter of my life and start anew with one of those young whippersnappers who doesn't yet know how to be as faithful and loyal as you have been. But I can't trade you in tomorrow before telling you a few things.
Thank you for getting me to and from school every day, to a place I hated with people I loved. Thank you for safely transporting them with me wherever we chose to go, and for tolerating our loud music and awful singing. And for believing me when I thought they would all be my friends forever.
Thanks for letting me dance like an idiot when a boy asked me out for the first time, and for letting me cry on your steering wheel when he told me we were better as friends. And I know there was really nothing you could do, but why'd you let me make out with those boys I didn't like who weren't right for me? Couldn't you have given me a hint or something? I guess you offered reflections of me in your mirrors. Maybe I just chose not to see.
For accompanying me on my soul-searching year in California, I can never truly express my gratitude. That year changed my life in more ways than I can count, and if it weren't for you braving Sacramento traffic with me for an hour each day, listening to me sob over getting lost, and bringing me to the job I detested, I wouldn't have found my way to where I am now. You stretched yourself for thousands of miles so I could figure myself out.
In the last few years of our time together, you've watched me change the most. You took me from Sacramento to Idaho, but we both know you took me much further than that. You led me to my career, to lifelong friends, to a person I truly love, and to an organization I will never forget. You brought me to my future, regardless of where it goes from here.
Thank you for never giving up on me. And please know that I am not giving up on you. I just need you to do me this one last favor and let me close out our chapter.
It's been a wild ride.
This article by Kelcie Moseley originally appeared at Thought Catalog on August 9, 2011. You should follow Thought Catalog on Twitter here.
Photo Credit: Shutterstock/Dudarev Mikhali
Dear orange Datsun 210 with the vinyl roof. and no trunk lock and broken heat and air, I now admire the fact that you just always kept going. That the only maintenance you required was to have oil placed near you every ten thousand miles I now realize is remarkable. But please understand I am a different person now, older and wiser. I have grown to appreciate you. Please forgive me for stomping the gas pedal all the way to the floor each day and shouting, "DIE DIE DIE!"
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Source: Jalopnik
by Totoro's W124 |
2/4/2012 2:31 AM |
This is Noel Fielding’s take on the iconic color combination of white, red, yellow, green and black better known as Ayrton Senna driving the wheels off one of his McLarens, drawn upside down in felt-tipped pen on the back of a Royal Mail envelope for The Guardian. Fielding, who discussed his artistic influences, referred to Senna as enigmatic and spiritual and called his racing “almost like an act of poetry."
Although it has to be said that to my crayon-biased eyes, Fielding’s drawing looks suspiciously like Crayola. Do Brits use Crayola? Perhaps only the kind of Brits whose stand-up comedy is influenced by Ayrton Senna and who then call the output felt-tipped pen.
Art by Noel Fielding.
yes I was thinking oil pastel crayons judging by the smudge patters of the pigment and the opacity of the coverage, clearly not a wax based product.
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Source: Jalopnik
by KillerRacoon - Group J's Sébastien Loeb |
2/4/2012 2:25 AM |
Action movies with lotsa guns (hopefully modern) that I have not seen. Along the lines of Blackhawk Down. Go. #oppositelock
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Source: Jalopnik
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2/4/2012 2:20 AM |
Damn it. How did I miss that original video? Thanks! #oppositelock
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Source: Jalopnik
by HideyoshiJP |
2/4/2012 2:19 AM |
It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East.
There aren't any cars spinning past school busses while shooting assault rifles out the window, but you get all the other tropes of hagwalah hoonage: cars on two wheels, front-wheel-drive cars drifting through traffic and passengers dancing out the car at highway speeds.
Finally, the car selection is really perfect: instead of supercars sittin' sideways, cruising at five miles an hour, we get ‘90s BMWs, Mercs and one dirty Alfa Romeo 156, all spinning like tops through the desert. There's even a see-through Peugeot 404 wagon. It's like the director had been reading Jalopnik's music video wish list or something.
(Hat tip to Planet Nation!)
Aww yeah. Let's have another beer summit, sans beer.
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Source: Jalopnik
by Zendax |
2/4/2012 2:18 AM |
We live in a numbers-obsessed era. We want to see measured proof of a car's awesomeness. If we can see and hear that awesomeness being measured, so much the better. What's the best dyno pull that's ever been captured on video?
This is a short-and-sweet personal favorite: no fancy dramatics, no side plots, just a perfectly-tuned three-liter V8 revving like the world's most evil chainsaw and lunging against the straps with each upshift. I'd love to see the graph that resulted from this run, but for now I'll try to figure out how to make my alarm clock play this in the morning.
(QOTD is your chance to answer the day's most pressing automotive questions and experience the opinions of the insightful insiders, practicing pundits and gleeful gearheads that make up the Jalopnik commentariat. If you've got a suggestion for a good "Question Of the Day" send an email to tips at jalopnik dot com.)
Ferrari: the audiophiles choice.
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Source: Jalopnik
by MillenniumFox |
2/4/2012 2:17 AM |
I think he's around hooniverse these days. #oppositelock
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Source: Jalopnik
by Brian1321 |
2/4/2012 2:15 AM |
Ok but kids are fucking retarded, especially Bieber fans. #oppositelock
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Source: Jalopnik
by HideyoshiJP |
2/4/2012 2:15 AM |
It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East.
There aren't any cars spinning past school busses while shooting assault rifles out the window, but you get all the other tropes of hagwalah hoonage: cars on two wheels, front-wheel-drive cars drifting through traffic and passengers dancing out the car at highway speeds.
Finally, the car selection is really perfect: instead of supercars sittin' sideways, cruising at five miles an hour, we get ‘90s BMWs, Mercs and one dirty Alfa Romeo 156, all spinning like tops through the desert. There's even a see-through Peugeot 404 wagon. It's like the director had been reading Jalopnik's music video wish list or something.
(Hat tip to Planet Nation!)
I'm HideyoshiJP and I approve this message.
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