Popped up on my news feed on FB. It's about crappy cars that are good track cars. They reference an article about Saturns making good race cars from the May '99 issue.
I know Jalopnik is the tabloid of Automotive Journalism, but I still read it from time to time.
They seem to be suggesting that an Evo X is somehow affordable. Was there a radiation spill at the Mitsu factory that got them all contaminated and marked down?
That might be the dumbest thing I read today.
I thought they were just saying that the Lancer which the Evo is based on is an outdated crappy car. Don't think they said much about cheapness, just crappiness.
Once again they put a turbo dodge on the list 
Mezzanine wrote: That might be the dumbest thing I read today.
Welcome to Jalopnik...
I read Jalopnik for Alpha Foxtrot. That is actually good editorial.
I'm just going to come out and say it: I enjoy Jalopnik. Most of the stuff on there is at least peripherally interesting to me, and a fair bit of it is amusing. For that matter, I like Deadspin, Foxtrot Alpha, and Gizmodo, too. I guess that makes me a Kinja guy.
Fire away. 
Tom_Spangler wrote: I'm just going to come out and say it: I enjoy Jalopnik. Most of the stuff on there is at least peripherally interesting to me, and a fair bit of it is amusing. For that matter, I like Deadspin, Foxtrot Alpha, and Gizmodo, too. I guess that makes me a Kinja guy. Fire away.
The Fast & Furious movies were enjoyable in my opinion, but they certainly aren't documentaries on how cars work. In the same vein, I find many Jalopnik articles to be enjoyable to read, however I don't believe the site to be serious automotive journalism. I actually look forward to their "10 of the...." list articles every day and usually get a pretty good chuckle out of them. I don't really get the hate unless it's considered too mainstream and "watered down" for people who were in to cars before it was cool. There have been individual posts/articles that were pretty bad, but on the whole I'm in agreement that there's some interesting stuff there.
Tom_Spangler wrote: I'm just going to come out and say it: I enjoy Jalopnik. Most of the stuff on there is at least peripherally interesting to me, and a fair bit of it is amusing. For that matter, I like Deadspin, Foxtrot Alpha, and Gizmodo, too. I guess that makes me a Kinja guy. Fire away.
Just like my Canada includes Quebec, my Internet includes Jalopnik. I also read Jezebel.
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
Saw that earlier today. They refer to GRM on a semi-regular basis. Generally it's when the subject matter is something that requires more than a fat check to accomplish.
If you read any Gawker site with the attitude that ranks up there with the quality of US Weekly for car people/hipster techies/all lifes money problems can be solved with a slip and fall lawsuit people/OMG I LOVE CELEBRITIES SO MUCH!!1!!<3 people it's pretty entertaining.
I can't stand Jalopnik. Some of the dumbest things I've ever read have been on Jalopnik. And I even read my own writing!!
Jalopnik is now racing Yahoo Autos to the bottom. Nice.
Bunch of jackasses. berkeley em.
Oh yeah. The Saturn SC. My friend is about to sell his with ~70k miles. Who wants to turn it into a race car?
Uh, Lancia Delta Evo is a "crap car"....?
The disappointing thing about Jalopnik now is that it used to be so much better.
GameboyRMH wrote: They seem to be suggesting that an Evo X is somehow affordable. Was there a radiation spill at the Mitsu factory that got them all contaminated and marked down?
You can pick up a pretty recent one (like, an 18 month old one like mine) for the price of the average new car people buy here in the US, ie around the $32k-$33k. For the performance, that is very affordable. If you get a GSR, you can knock off another few grand.
But of course this revives the old forum "discussion" if an affordable car can cost more than $2k or not 
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irish44j wrote: Uh, Lancia Delta Evo is a "crap car"....?
The Lancia Delta itself was a pretty unremarkable econobox. Fun to drive, especially as the 1.6HF (turbo), but basically a run of the mill small italian car. As an Ex-Integrale owner I can say they're not "crap" but they are rather Italian. I still kinda regret selling mine (it would have been eligible for import last year) but I wouldn't want to find parts for them here. It's hard enough in Europe - I had to take mine to a mechanic in Switzerland for some emergency fix and they (despite being an official Lancia dealer) pointed out that the parts catalogue for Integrales is one big three letter world - "NLA". Fortunately they managed to bodge, err, fix the car.
They are a lot of fun to drive on a twisty road if you don't mind the occasional part falling off.
Is the standard Cobalt an average economy car or is it bad like they say? I never drove one.
Jalopnik is disappointing, but now I'm reading that old GRM article. Something good came of this.
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