@offbeatorbit
ashley start reviewing cars. they fly you overseas business class a lot just to drive on a race track in Portugal lol it's nice (I went to Paris earlier this year like this)
@offbeatorbit
95 percent of the time I am sitting in my room editing other people's reviews or news. the other 5 percent makes me look like an unethical tool but it's fun
Today was my last day at
@Jalopnik
after near six years. I put together a long-lost video of
@JasonTorchinsky
touring the Nutmobile I felt I owed him. Anyway, I have a couple projects to do, but if you want to work with me or have work for me, let me know!
Extremely distressed to learn Uzi Nissan, who I interviewed in 2018, died of covid-19 earlier this month. He was so great to talk to, I called him back a year later to see how he felt about Ghosn’s arrest. Please wear a mask.
Rest in power Uzi.
Today I got promoted to Jalopnik Reviews Editor and my roommate here got published in the New York Times for a very serious topic you should read about!! Have a good weekend.
The devices that litter our lives are vaults of dredged-up earth, precious metals, glass, and plastic sourced from all over and fused together at a great environmental cost. Right to repair laws can keep them from the scrap heap. My latest for
@nytclimate
@judeinlondon
@offbeatorbit
Automakers do indeed often host influencer waves to their events and stuff with no intended driving necessary. Often labeled lifestyle coverage
2019 I started dating, which led me to therapy, which led me to my boyf, which led me to come out to my parents. Also got a new job (still Jalopnik, more later). Anyway, all this proved was that I really need to start taking care of my body to feel good about myself, which sucks.
2020's must haves, or most hyped? It's a pretty compelling two-car garage, either way. Not driven the Defender much yet, but I've become quite smitten with the wee e.
The people mad at Deadspin for politicizing sports have done more to politicize sports than Deadspin, because they’re all fucking idiots including my [Justin’s lawyer here, taped his mouth, carry on]
Deadspin bosses call out the union's unreasonable demands, which were "far outside norms of the media industry" (or any industry, in fact!) and campaign of public harassment. Good.
@thetomzone
@LydiaBurrell
my dad taught me to shoot and in the military it’s a no-no to not let the slide release on its own spring power, which means this video is probably full of theoretical failure to chamber and misfires
@offbeatorbit
Having hung out with a co-vacc this weekend and encountered people approaching me with no vac and no mask, some folks are going to ruin it for everybody
Happy Pride 2020! We celebrate alongside our LGBTQ+ community, and stand behind ALL individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. Inclusivity and love are now more important than ever, and we hope to be an ally in spreading that message
#equality
#pride
#LGBTQ
@alexhcranz
@offbeatorbit
I love the phrasing of wanting to be "driven through the parade," and not "in the parade" as if the hearse is just mowing down twinks
When I catch these glimpses into the lives of women it makes me so angry, and reflect on the lacking security and vetting at auto events. Jalop did a Le Mans party years ago, this blue eyed creep kept asking where she was going after. Told him it didn't matter, he was going home.
@steelydante
Nobody knows who Martin Campbell is, and if they do, it's not because he saved James Bond twice but because he ruined the Green Lantern movie
The meanest thing I’ve ever said to someone was this guy in a suit in Grand Central. He said I looked like a girl, I said he looked divorced. He shut da fuck up.
A real note I just got on an outline for a Jalopnik video: "If there's a way to sub in other words for 'car,' I suggest doing so. There's a lot of car this and that and it feels a bit much."
Victor showed me new ways to approach photography, got me happily drunk more times than I deserved, and made me more comfortable in my own skin around the office. And some cowards fired him for being cool.
@labergee
I can't figure it out. Clues: Canada, GoodYear. Likely: fiberglass. Likely ripping off: Isdera. My guess: based on paint-stripped Astrovan trailer car evidence, Id wager mullet man built it himself.
"As if from nowhere, right in the middle of his carefree childhood and adolescence, and while at grammar school, the Third Reich and Second World War emerged."
Porsche's revisionism in Hans Mezger's obituary really is something.
@offbeatorbit
I was on a first date in a bar and an unmasked unvacced drunk woman came up and told us we were a beautiful couple and had to be taken away by the bartender. We got a free shot.
1 day i was like "hey victor can we watch drag race in our office." 4 years later he'd grown it into the longest running/most fun event in Gawker/GMG history. a brilliant legend and a friend i will forever ride for—he'd do the same for almost anyone
Just saw the NFL ad where Ford directly compares the new Edge ST to a Lexus, Lotus and Ferrari as a "performance car." There should be laws against this.
[After tomorrow, you won’t look at
@MotorTrend
the same. That I promise.] The countdown has begun! MotorTrend’s new Top Gear America hosts will be announced Tuesday at 7am PT/10am ET!
#TopGearAmerica
#MotorTrend