​Most Read Oppositelock Stories of 2013 insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® ​Most Read Oppositelock Stories of 2013

It's the end of the year and it's been a big one for Oppositelock. 2013 saw several changes to the site and the introduction of Kinja. These changes brought more exposure to the forum and with it many new people contributing great new content. Here are this year's most read Oppositelock posts.

15. Got a V8 Vantage? Pull fuse 22 immediately. - 48,686 Views

What use is a glorious V8 if you can't hear it? Jbh of CCC Manhattan is here to help; pull the fuse and let that Aston breathe.

14. Road Raging Youth Attacks Old Man, gets Ass Kicked Instead - 49819 Views

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"If you like to argue that drivers of old BMW's are unfairly stereotyped, well, this incident yesterday in North Vancouver will not help your case."

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13. Toyota Ditches Current Lineup, Goes RWD Only - 54163 Views

The power of Facebook reveals itself. This great bit of satire racked up 14,000 likes by announcing a change of heart from Toyota's quest to bore us all to death. We can dream, can't we?

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12. The most expensive joy ride ever recorded in Quebec's history! - 55165 Views

As if there was nothing to learn from AfroDuck's fastest Manhattan lap, these two Quebecoi bikers sped their way through traffic and were given record fines and demerit points after the police nabbed the pair and confiscated the helmet cams containing all the proof. Brilliant!

11. Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond lost their licenses - 55274 Views

While filming for their Top Gear DVD 'The Perfect Road Trip' Clarkson and Hammond had a little run-in with the French police. In an amusing bit of role reversal, the pair had to surrender their licenses and pay their fines on the spot.

10. 81st 24 Hours of Le Mans: The Live Blog - 57123 Views

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In a monumental effort (and what I can only assume to be record caffeine consumption) Porsche9146, Nobody and AxelRipper knocked out a great live blog of this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans.

9. Helmet cam clip shows what it's like to be bikejacked at gunpoint - 58162 Views

Having your car of bike stolen from you is one of a Jalop's worst nightmares. This video shows just how scary an encounter with bike-(or car-)jackers can be. Luckily for the rider the Sau Paulo police were nearby and they do not fuck around.

8. Cars That Shouldn't Be Had With the Manual (Yes, I Went There) - 64887 Views

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Satish Kondapavulur's 'Stupid list' have proven themselves to be a popular feature. By stirring up a debate about the place of the manual transmission this post became the most discussed post on Oppositelock this year with 862 comments.

7. F1's Hybrid turbos are awesome and you want one in your car. Now - 66492 Views

Formula 1 is set to inaugurate a new turbo era in 2014 and technology has advanced a little since the last time snails were bolted to engines in the pinnacle of motorsports. By incorporating an electric motor/generator F1's new turbos are set to overcome lag and recover more energy that would otherwise be wasted.

6. Donovan McNabb is right, race car drivers are not athletes. They are something far more impressive.. - 69478 Views

Showcasing amazing ignorance Mr. McNabb chose to piss of all those who hold racing dear. He chose… poorly.

5. Did Hollywood Stuntz Attack This Prius Driver In 2011? - 70752 Views

The professional-grade asshats of the Hollywood Stuntz bike gang are not new to assaulting commuters going about their drives, as seen in this attack on a Prius.

4. The De-Stockification, And Ensuing Re-Stockification, Of Stock Car Racing - 73,786 Views

NASCAR race cars have gone through many changes in their 60+ year history. Read this to learn about their journey from fresh-from-the-showroom Oldsmobile to the Car of Tomorrow and return to basics with cars that are beginning to resemble production cars once again.

3. What a Car Enthusiast Looks Like to Everyone Else - 112,131 Views

Our enthusiasm for cars is unique and sometimes we have to take a step back to realize just how weird our passion for all things automotive may look to the uninitiated. Just have a look at Steve, washing machine enthusiast...

2. The Mazda Furai Concept is dead and Top Gear is to blame - 154,849 Views

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1. The Footage That the NYC Bikers Didn't Want You to See (7 more!) UPDATED - 557,735 Views

The Hollywood Stuntz assault on Alexian Lien was one of Jalopnik's most read stories of 2013. By sharing more videos of the gang's past shenanigans the post went viral and became what is by far Oppositelock's most read post of all time.

For more great Oppositelock posts, check out the Best of Oppositelock, and if you'd like to participate, check out the general handbook for posting on OppositeLock as well the Oppo tools to help you get started.

Happy New Year and drive safe.

​Most Read Oppositelock Stories of 2013

The Jalopnik Guide To Ranking 10 Awesome Cars insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® The Jalopnik Guide To Ranking 10 Awesome Cars

You told us the 10 cars you're waiting for in 2014 and the results weren't too surprising. That's no bad thing, because 2014 is shaping up to be a pretty good year as far as new cars go.

Of course, things wouldn't be right if the cars you were most excited to see in 2014 weren't a new Mazda Miata and the Volvo V60 Polestar. A sports car legend and a fast wagon at the top of the list means next year won't be the year the whole world ends.

In fact, gator8 has nailed the perfect formula for every future "Ten Most Anticipated New Cars" list. It's simple:

How to make a Jalopnik wish list.

1. Pick 8 awesome cars.

2. Make Volvo wagon #2

3. Miata always wins.

Happy 2014. May there be more wagons and Miatas in our future. Oh, and other cars. But mostly Miatas and wagons.

The Jalopnik Guide To Ranking 10 Awesome Cars

Now You Have To Consider Operating Systems When Buying A New Car insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® Now You Have To Consider Operating Systems When Buying A New Car

Remember the days when you hardly spoke to friends who still used Macs because you used Windows 95? You could hardly speak to them because so few things were compatible between the two systems. Then it changed to a divide between iOS and Android users. Now it's going to change the way some people consider cars.

The Washington Post's Wonkblog had a post pondering Audi's decision to align with Google at a time when a number of other carmakers are integrating Apple's iOS system into cars. Here's the gist of the whole problem:

It would seem logical for a car company to stay platform-agnostic, so as not to repel consumers who are wedded to one operating system or the other ... But big corporate alliances tend not to work that way

The day might be approaching when you have to decide which operating system is going to be best for you if you decide between competing models from Audi and Mercedes, for example. Which is silly, really, because cars aren't supposed to be computers. They're supposed to be things you drive. But we've blurred that distinction long ago.

Guess you need to get used to not talking to your friends anymore because they drive an Audi operated by Google. Unless you buy one too.

Photos: AP

Now You Have To Consider Operating Systems When Buying A New Car

The Best And Worst Cars I've Driven This Year insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® The Best And Worst Cars I've Driven This Year

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If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would I, too? Well, that depends—how sweet is the jump? Can I borrow the wagon I use for rallycross shenanigans? And, uh, what am I landing on? I can't swim, dude.

I've only been a contributor for half a year, but my tendency to defile clutches and violate tires has made 2013 a pretty impressive year.

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I launched that loaner Legacy Turbo wagon in the air at a NASA Rally Lab, experienced ludicrous speed in a McLaren 12C and put Fluffy Bunny's lilac butt on enough racecars to make The Stig himself blush.

Then again, I also had both cars I own wrecked this year. Is it 2014 yet? 2013 blew goats, come to think of it. Good riddance.

So, without further procrastination, here are the high and low points of a year that really needs to end now.

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Best: Lotus Exige

This is—admittedly—not the first year I've driven a Lotus Exige, but since I drove an Exige at all this year, it's impossible not to include an Exige on this list.

Many of my picks for this list are cars that surprised me in some way. The little Lotus shocked me in every way possible when I discovered that it was very easy to drive with one wrist in a cast and a bunch of other post-accident aches and pains. Rear visibility was nonexistant, but clever convex side mirrors made it easier to move around without having to move my sore neck much to see.

I knew this car was fairly easy to drive from previous excursions in Exiges. In fact, the first time I drove one, the owner said "I bet you won't stall my car." Much to my amazement, I didn't. The combination of a very light car and an easy to use clutch pedal makes this little rocket incredibly easy to get moving.

I still feel like a total n00b every time I get into a car with a manual transmission. Sure enough, I stalled the Exige this time when I got a little lost crossing Austin to put it back in its garage. That was a little painful since the car's battery was dead, and I had to wait for its owner to jump the car to restart it, but once the jumper cables were attached, it was super easy to get started again.

This car handles as well as everyone says it does, shoots your nose hairs into the back of your spine when you press the whee pedal, makes a run-of-the-mill Toyota engine sound like the voice of God, and is amazingly drivable on normal roads. In short, it's everything you'd want in a car.

Well, at least it's everything I'd want in a car since I tend to pack light and rarely have more than one person with me. Pfft, details.

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Best: Fiat 124 Spider Racecar

Contrary to popular belief, I actually got to do some endurance racing this year. It wasn't in my car, but I still did it, and it was glorious, and everything I'd been missing since I raced the lilac Type 3 "Bunnywagen" back in 2011.

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This little Fiat had been left behind by subsequent changes to the ChumpCar and LeMons rulebooks, but was deemed fine to run in Harris Hill Road's local enduro series.

Nicknamed "The Carrot" for its bright orange hue and bunnytacular "Looney Tunes" artwork, this was perhaps the slowest car entered in this race, but it handled so well that it was easy to keep up with and annoy faster cars in the corners.

Obviously, you don't want to block traffic, rack up blue flags and frustrate other people on track, but I made other drivers really earn that pass around the 124—until we got to a straight, that is. Then they'd just stomp on the gas and leave me far behind, but let's be honest: I was having too much fun in this car to care.

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If you ever get a chance to race a 124, I highly recommend it. Rear-wheel drive. Manual. It's a Fiat, so it sounds like a Fiat should when you rev the snot out of it. Do it.

Shoot, if you get the chance to enter an enduro in anything, do it.

We talk a lot about cars that feel raw on here—cars with a lot of feedback, with manual controls, that are simple and easy to hoon. Sometimes you have to go back a few years to find them.

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Best: Audi A7 TDI

This is a big sedan. It has a lot of bells and whistles. Its focus is on better fuel economy, which it gets. It's the exact opposite of everything I've put on this list thus far. Not only did I not hate it, I kind of didn't want to give it back.

Audi has put together a big diesel car that's genuinely easy to use, fun to drive like a maniac and stunning to look at. I got more compliments from random strangers on how this car looks than anything else I've driven around town.

It's a feat—and it would go from Freedmen's to Stanley's and back on one tank of diesel.

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Best: Tesla Model S

Again with the surprises. Like the A7 TDI, it's a big car with a gorgeous hatchback shape and a lot of interesting toys. To be honest, the A7 TDI is still the more usable car: fueling locations are much more common, it takes far less time to fuel it up once you're there, and the range on one tank of fuel is almost twice what you'd get on one [super]charge.

But I'd be doing this list a huge disservice if I didn't include the single best electric car to date.

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It doesn't look like a golf cart or an existing model of something else—it looks like a car, and a beautiful one, at that. It's a stunning futuristic design, both inside and out. I'd like how it looks no matter what drivetrain they put in it.

There's ample usable interior space, and even a frunk. It's not yet another electric/hybrid subcompact. Rather, it's comfortable enough for a whole family.

There are even rear-facing seats. Rear-facing seats! I can't fit in them with the hatch closed, but they're awesome.

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Will it baby? Err, will it bunny? Yes.

I'm not a huge fan of big touchscreens in cars, but this one seems more usable. Buttons were bigger, and shapes made sense even when glanced at through the edge of my peripheral vision. Bonus: anything numbered goes to 11.

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Actual thought has been put into the whole "charging" issue with the network of superchargers. I hate waiting, but 40 minutes is a huge improvement over multiple hours.

Best of all, it drives well. Ample torque hurls all 4,650 lbs forward with some kind of physics-defying wizardry. The low center of gravity from all the batteries at the bottom means that it handles bizarrely and unexpectedly well, without any of the usual floaty floppiness you'd expect in a big sedan.

We put three big dudes and a Stef in a Model S and it still made my neck a little sore when the driver floored it.

If it's not already obvious from the contents of this list, I love me some torque.

I can't have one since I lack any kind of electrical outlet whatsoever near where I park, but I won't turn my nose up at killing some electrons when I get the chance. The Model S isn't without its issues (one friend's already experienced the "door doesn't open" firmware problem), but even so, it's completely redefining expectations of what an electric car can be. You know, things like a normal, usable car.

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Worst: Toyota Camry Rental

Much like Patrick was afraid the Infiniti Q50's drive-by-wire system would become the standard for luxury cars, I am terrified that the Camry's drive-on-novocaine experience seems to be infecting other base model rental-spec sedans.

You're so disconnected from the actual driving experience in this car that it feels like you're driving the world's worst video game, complete with little to no feedback in the wheel.

I now understand overly aggressive drivers in late-model Camrys. They just want to get out of that thing.

The Camry (almost) makes me want to ragequit cars every time I see one.

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Worst: Chrysler 200 Rental

Wait, wasn't this on Matt's list? I'm pretty sure I've seen that exact same photo before somewhere on this website. Well, I got stuck with one, too, while my Lancer was being repaired.

While it is a bit of an improvement over the Camry (the steering wheel feels connected to something? HUZZAH!), the fact that it has the single worst automatic transmission I've ever driven makes it a solid "worst" pick.

I was able to confuse this car's slushbox with a moderately steep hill. Since that hill is my route home, I turned it back in to Enterprise after a day and asked for something else. I couldn't take any more of that. No way, no how.

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Honorable Mention: The Lulzcer

There's something about having your own car. You have ample time to tinker around with it, so you know what it will do. You're not timid about hooning it.

And hoon it I did.

I've had this one since it was new, and I knew that I would have a beast of a time finding a replacement in a similar condition if it got totaled.

The couple months without my car while it was being repaired were torture. The rentals I had in the meantime weren't my car. They were more numb, often not as powerful, not as easy to use and just not right. Other people have been in them. Messy people.

My own personal space had been missing. It's weird to think of a car as part of your home, but mine is—and I probably care about it more than I do my apartment.

It is an automatic Lancer GTS, and it is the greatest car in the world.

Photo credits: Kelly Hightower (head bump), Brianne Corn (Legacy wagon as Space Shuttle), Mike Jankowski (Stef with Fiat as Bunny Food), Randy Whitten (Model S as scourge of parking lot), Matt's "Best of" List (worst transmission in the history of transmissions), Thomas Endesfelter (Lulzcer in its natural habitat)

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The Best Jalopnik Stories Of 2013 insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® The Best Jalopnik Stories Of 2013

Now that you've seen our most popular stories from 2013 we thought you'd like to see the stories that are notable for reasons other than pleasing some sort of Facebook algorithm. This year had everything: Mormon scammers, European adventures, and Beetles both stolen and flipped.

Has there ever been a better year at Jalopnik? I think not. It's been our biggest year ever in terms of readers as well as content. More exclusives. More reviews. More everything.

Thanks to the amazing staff here at Jalopnik for their unparalleled work. Thanks to Gawker for giving us a new, extremely usable platform and otherwise letting us write whatever we want. And thanks to you, the reader, for your contributions. Everyone I speak with seems to agree that we've got the best commenting community on the web, an amazing feat when you consider how many of you there are.

Without further ado, here are our favorites. Drop your favorites in the comments if you wish.

Jason's Beetle — a car he's had his entire adult life — was stolen. Then you found it.

Here's the most incredible thing about today: my prized Beetle has had its eyes gouged out, its hood and decklid battered, it bumpers mangled, roof rack stolen, radio gone, and the entire engine brutally extracted, and all I can think about is how amazingly wonderful people are.

You've got Jalopnik's back, and we've got your back. An ongoing con by a company called "Super Replicas" left a trail of victims who just wanted a reasonably nice car at an unreasonably good price.

With some of the best reportage done by anyone in the car space this year, Patrick George shined a lot on their questionable business practices and tracked down the religious extremist behind it.

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We sent Travis Okulski and the great GF Williams to Europe to drive the Stelvio Pass and find out if it's as good as everyone says. It wasn't. But they found four better roads with the help of a Porsche Cayman. Some of the best photography of 2013 as well as one of our crazier trips.

One of my favorite additions to the staff this year is NASCAR driver and all-around great guy Parker Kligerman. His response to Donovan McNabb's idiotic comments about NASCAR drivers wasn't combative, it was just honest and well-reasoned.

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When Raphael used his monthly bonus to buy a Volkswagen instead of a new computer I sort of expected this to happen. At least we got a story out of it and everyone was ok.

A story that makes both the "most popular" and "favorite" lists this year by frequent Kinja-er and otherwise popular guy Doug DeMuro. A true Jalopnik exclusive that was covered by everyone. Just remember it was covered here best and first.

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Plenty of people wrote about the new Lamborghini Veneno at the Geneva Motor Show this year, but Mate went the extra step by tracking down the guys who bought the car. Site unseen. For $4 million each. Cars are interesting but people are even better.

People say dumb things. People like Kyle Petty, who said Danica Patrick is "not a race car driver." The quote wasn't out of context, he meant it. This response pretty much sums up how we felt about it.

We actually had to do this post twice, as some in the media continued to confuse the concept of "commuting culture" and "car culture" and perceived Millennials as a bunch of children distracted by their shiny phones as opposed to the reality they continue to underreport, which is that young people in this country face huge student loan debt and fewer prospects than the generations writing about them.

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Before we hired Zac Estrada full-time he got to borrow a Ford Raptor for a few days. I got an angry call from the person who let him borrow the car asking why, exactly, it wasn't returned on time. Umm… because Raptor?

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We drove a ton of cars this year, including the Volkswagen XL1 in Germany. You could argue it's the 21st century supercar.

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Or you could argue this is the ultimate 21st century supercar.

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Ending the year with a bang. Literally. Raphael crashed the damn thing.

The Best Jalopnik Stories Of 2013

Remember The Big Year Of Cars Contest? I Just Did! insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® Remember The Big Year Of Cars Contest? I Just Did!

I bet you thought I forgot about the Big Year contest! Just because I almost forgot, probably. Well, I didn't forget, and now it's time to judge, so everyone put your cameras down and get ready to turn in your work. But first, let's recap.

The idea of this contest was based on something from the birding world, since we all know how much the automotive and bird watching world overlap. The goal was to take pictures of as many different cars spotted in the wild as possible. Here's the rules from the original article:

To win, you'll need to make a post showcasing your 15 best car photos. The winner will be picked by who has the most impressive set of pictures, based on rarity of the cars, quality of the photographs, the age of the cars (older gets higher points), and the general opinions of the Jalopnik staff, who will judge these. In the event of a split decision, the overall number of car photos will be the deciding factor.

Individual years of the same make/model still only count for one entry. The goal is as many unique individual models of a car. You can't have, say, a 1959 NSU Prinz and a 1965 NSU Prinz and count them as two different cars. They're both NSU Prinzes. However, the older models will most likely count for more in the end, unless there's an unusual circumstance.

Also, car photos must be of cars in the wild. In their natural habitats, on streets and garages. That means no going through a museum shooting pictures of cars. That'd be like the bird people shooting photos in the natural history museum. You can do better.

The pictures themselves need to be taken by you, dear reader, and not just grabbed offline. That's why every picture needs to have an index card with your Jalopnik user name written on it, placed on the car or held in the shot. No cheaty Photoshopping, we can tell, having seen many 'shops in our time, and by looking at some of the pixels. But you knew that.

So, now's where you show your 15 best photos. Make your Kinja page, post the photos in a post, and comment here with the link. We'll give until, oh, let's say January 15 for everyone to get their pages up, photos picked and all that, and we'll get a winner picked by end of January. We have the Detroit Auto Show in mid-January, so hopefully that'll give us enough time.

And, of course, the winner gets this sweet remote-control FR-S:

So, everyone, re-read those rules, and post your links to your Kinja page of photos here. I'm excited to see what you came up with!

Remember The Big Year Of Cars Contest? I Just Did!

Women Be Shopping For Cars insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® Women Be Shopping For Cars

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Women. When they're not dying, they're spending more money on cars. What is up with that, ladies?

Says here in the USA Today that women are spending slightly more money on cars than they were a few years back. More importantly, it sounds like there's a little disagreement over who's really wearing the pants in the family—at the auto dealership!

*JERRY SPRINGER CROWD RESPONDS TO "MAKE SOME NOISE!" SIGN*

A poll among new-car owners in December, 2012, by the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers found 72% of men believe they had the most influence over the purchase, but 60% of women thought they had the most say.

Haha, hey there fellas, sounds like the ladies are the ones in the driver's seat. Ladies, the fellas over here seem to think they run the show. What do you say to that?

*ALL THE LADIES SAY "NOOOOOOOOOOOO"*

How about it fellas? Sounds like the ladies here think they have you right where they want you. Is that true?

*ALL THE FELLAS SAY "HELLLLL NOOOOOO"*

Sure, fellas. Enjoy that Cabriolet.

*CLOSE-UP OF SMIRKING HOST*

[Photo: Shutterstock]

Women Be Shopping For Cars

Everything Will Kill You In Russia, Especially Road Sledding insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® Everything Will Kill You In Russia, Especially Road Sledding

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Police in Yekaterinburg (formerly known as Sverdlovsk) are looking for a person seen sledding through the regional capital on a tire pulled by an Opel hatchback. Apparently, this is a deadly pastime in the area.

LifeNews reports that last year a girl died in Yekaterinburg doing the exact same stunt. Police are looking to apprehend the criminal in this 'blatant case' of misconduct. According to the police, carrying passengers outside the cabin of a car merits a 1000 ruble fine, or about $30.

Everything Will Kill You In Russia, Especially Road Sledding

New York Might Replace Central Park Horses With Vintage Electric Cars insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

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The war between horse and automobile has waged for decades, but it's all but settled at this point. The final battleground may be Central Park, where vintage electric cars could soon take the place of the famed horse-drawn carriages.

The NY Daily News reports tourists are swarming to Central Park to ride on the horses in light of news that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio plans on phasing horses out when he takes office. De Blasio and animal rights activists claim that making the horses walk around city streets is both dangerous and inhumane.

In their place, the newspaper reports, could come vintage electric cars. It doesn't say what kind, but I'd love to see some carriage-esque Detroit or Baker electrics running around the park instead. It's gonna be 1900 all over again!

The bad news — and this is a serious bummer for sure — is that experts claimed during the election that the decision could lead to the horses' slaughter instead of their rescue. Others have expressed confidence that someone will step up and adopt the horses without any problems.

So that's how it works, New York? Letting the horses walk the streets is inhumane but killing them is fine? This is why I'm glad I live in Washington D.C., where nothing bad ever happens and the government's decisions always make total sense.

Oh wait, never mind.

Photo credit Jurvetson

New York Might Replace Central Park Horses With Vintage Electric Cars

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insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® UAW Vice President Accidentally Shoots Wife While Cleaning Gun

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Investigators in Macomb County say the wife of General Holiefield, the United Auto Workers' vice president, was shot in the stomach Monday night while Holiefield was cleaning a Desert Eagle handgun.

Monica Morgan, Holiefield's wife and a noted local photographer who, among other things, was Rosa Parks' personal photographer in her final years and a mentor to several up-and-coming photographers in Metro Detroit, is recovering from her injuries, police say. Holiefield has not returned comment to the media about the incident.

Police say Holiefield was cleaning the gun when it discharged. The Macomb County Prosecutors' Office will continue to investigate.

Holiefield, who is retiring from the UAW in June, became a popular figure around Detroit during the automakers' roughest years, taking hardline stances in favor of his fellow union workers while the Detroit Three re-negotiated contracts with thousands of employees. He and Morgan recently celebrated their first anniversary.

UAW Vice President Accidentally Shoots Wife While Cleaning Gun

My Year In GIFs insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com

insuranceinstantonline.blogspot.com ® My Year In GIFs

I make a lot of gifs working for Jalopnik. Here are the best/worst/most memorable animations I made in 2013.

I'm going to go in something resembling chronological order, from the start of the year on. All of these gifs (other than that topshot, which is from an old MotorWeek) happened in 2013, unless I'm wrong. In that case, please correct me. If I'm right, I guess now is the time to announce this as the first annual GIFies!

Trunking Jason In A Tesla

Tax The Rich Slides An Enzo

F1's Most Awkward/Amazing Podium

The Little Fiat That Couldn't

Gary Busey Does Car Ads

Ben Wojdyla Almost Gets Killed

The 2014 Corolla Gets Crash Tested

Rally Truck Attacks Innocent Trees

NASCAR Trucks Run Dirt Track

Landslide Miraculously Doesn't Kill Anyone

As It Turns Out, I Like Explosions

Rally Car Attacks Innocent Logs

The Sexxxiest Crashes Of The Monaco Grand Prix

A Ship Launch Goes Very Wrong

As It Turns Out, I Really Like Explosions

Here's What Loading A Porsche 962 Looks Like

Here's What A Car Flying Into Your Windshield Looks Like

Fiat Built A Car Out Of Naked People

Because Gatebil

Inexplicable Flying Bird Father In Toyota Commercial

A Legal 170 MPH Flyby

F1 Introduces Thermal Cameras

Huckfest Bro Is Perfection

Hillclimb Car Enters Hyperdrive

McLaren Monsters The 'Ring

Did I forget anything?

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