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goon | senior features editor @motortrend | former: @thedrive @BusinessInsider @Jalopnik @RoadandTrack

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Joined August 2015

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kristen

8 months

BIG STORY ALERT: lotta pieces out there about which Chinese-branded car could be first to touch down here, but the reality is they're already in North America. @CortinaMiguel and I went all the way to Mexico City to check em out AND we shot a documentary

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MOTORTREND INVESTIGATES China’s EV Takeover of Mexico

Now that China has made significant inroads into Mexico, is the US next? Get the full story: https://bit.ly/3PP3QuM#ChineseEV #EV #MotorTrendMotorTrend is th...

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1 year

hello! got a little Life Update for ya tomorrow will be my last day at The Drive. after, i'm headed to MotorTrend as its newest senior features editor to help host videos and write and edit stories. very very much looking forward to the opportunity!

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June 21, 2016, marked my first day at Jalopnik. March 31, 2020, will be my last. It was an incredibly hard decision, but I'm very excited to say I'm off to join Business Insider next month as a senior reporter (still) covering cars and writing reviews.

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3 years

Today is my last day @BusinessInsider . HOWEVER. You haven’t seen the last of me yet! Ya girl’s headed off to be the deputy editor @thedrive next month to help spearhead car reviews and features coverage. I’m *so* excited, you guys

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1 year

found someone doing it right

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3 years

WE GOT A LIVE ONE

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3 years

number 1 grandma

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2 years

feels good to be back

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1 year

i spend my time telling a lot of other people's stories, but was recently asked to tell my own. here it is!

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The Women Who Tell MotorTrend's Stories: Kristen Lee

As part of Women's History Month, women of MotorTrend are telling their personal stories. Here's Kristen Lee's.

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2 years

it's AAPI Heritage Month, which means if your Nissan Z review next week contains the words "samurai" "honor" "ronin" "emperor" or any other weebish exotifications, you automatically turn into a pumpkin at midnight

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2 years

plz stop

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Stop Putting Alcantara in Cars

While it has many lovely advantages, Alcantara should not be on steering wheels, gearshift levers, or armrests.

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3 years

always a pleasure and an honor to hang with @TheSmokingTire .... especially for the public-ish debut of The New Hair. check out the vid. we talk n drive the new BRZ 🖤

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2 years

went to queens and saw a Car

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4 years

cool with a death wish but won't say cunt? pussy.

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2 years

this is a hate crime

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2 years

thinking about her

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4 years

Last year, @JasonTorchinsky put my name in to appear on a segment of Stump A Car Nerd on @LenosGarage . The episode finally aired last night 💛

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3 years

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we're celebrating it @thedrive by lifting up prominent AAPI voices in the automotive space! You should join us

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Join The Drive As We Celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices In Car Culture This May

Representation matters.

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3 years

behold! my first opus for @thedrive

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Happy Birthday to the Best Fast and Furious Movie, Tokyo Drift

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is indisputably the best film of the franchise.

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4 years

Hell damn yeah

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2 years

i have no thoughts on the NYC nuclear PSA other than if we do get nuked i hope the warhead hits me right the fuck in the forehead i don't wanna scrap for survival with u nerds

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3 years

Saw the new Z last night and the coolest Easter egg was this rear window decal

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2 years

every single boy I know had this haircut at least once in their lives

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@donttrythis @Jalopnik @RSorokanich But on the other hand, check out this clear and beautiful cow.

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3 years

Here's a neat thing you can do in the 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5: The Scoot n Escape. (Scoot n 'Scape?)

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kristen

4 years

As my wise mother once said, "Ain't nothing 'super' about a supercar until you can take it to Costco." (She didn't actually say that.) (But the McLaren GT was a great Costo car.)

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4 years

"Wow, Americans suck." -- the boyfriend, who is shopping for a manual car and is discouraged by all the CVTs.

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2 years

more like silveRADo amirite ladies

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1 year

could not RT this fuckin fast enough

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2 years

shan't say more for now, but working on something real cool involving these cool people

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2 years

interesting

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3 years

Had a 2021 Porsche 718 Boxster Spyder recently and I thought I'd show you how to use the manual roof! Taking it down:

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3 years

Bought a new car tonight

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3 years

Important

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3 years

do you see the people i have to work with

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kristen

8 months

picked up some new colors at the rennsport reunion. first up is Riviera Blue whatcha think?

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kristen

7 months

bonus: robot terror dog live footage

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kristen

7 months

i was in singapore earlier this month and saw one of the cooler things i've seen so far: hyundai's new manufacturing plant that uses A TON of robots to build cars, including those boston dynamics robot terror dogs

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4 years

thank god they solved racism

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3 years

LOOK AT MY BROTHER'S NEW PUPPY his name is mochi 😭😭 I would die for him

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kristen

2 years

. @alanisnking is on my couch. we're reading bad fiction and talking about you

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2 years

funny that alanis calls *me* a boomer when she's the one updating her fb status constantly

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4 years

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QOTD: What are you still mad about?

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1 year

i continue to be owned

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2 years

this is the good spec

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kristen

3 years

The question will inevitably be, "Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing or BMW M5?" I'll let you in on a secret: The M5 hasn't been cool since the V10.

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2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing First Drive Review: A Grand Finale for Explosive V8 Manual Power

The 668-hp CT5-V Blackwing is a direct successor to the old CTS-V: a rear-driven, supercharged, manual, guaranteed grin machine.

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2 years

HERE IT BE: the new nissan Z is good and a throwback in all the right ways. thing doesn't feel turbocharged AT ALL

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2023 Nissan Z First Drive Review: Old School in the Best Ways

The biggest question is: Does the new Z capture the magic of the old ones? Yes. Yes it does.

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kristen

2 years

omg YOU GUYS @JasonTorchinsky and @davidntracy made me this fantastic little robot 🖤🖤🖤

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kristen

2 years

i made this bowl in glassblowing school specifically to eat fried rice out of

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kristen

4 years

screaming

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kristen

4 years

in this life, we have only fanciness

Stay Fancy, Motherfuckers

I have a shameful confession to make. Until I started working here, I didn’t read much Jalopnik. Like, at all. I didn’t read it in high school, college, or really during my time writing for Road &...

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kristen

3 years

sike she was marrying me that day

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Alanis King

3 years

My husband likes to remain anonymous, but here's proof that a wedding happened (📷: @claydeezy )

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2 years

good morning

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4 years

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@mdcohen

Michael Ready to Countersteer Cohen

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Build your best two car garage with cars that share an engine. I’ll start.

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kristen

1 year

rest easy to one of the greatest advocates of cars and racing of our generation

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BREAKING: Ken Block, the rally driver turned extreme sports star and cultural visionary, passed away on Monday following an accident in Utah, according to a statement from The Hoonigans.

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kristen

2 years

it was not her birthday.

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kristen

3 years

Hello! Please join me on this fun journey of all the wonderful little noises in the Porsche Macan GTS. When everything inevitably moves to a touchscreen interface, this is what I'll miss.

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kristen

4 years

If you are A Man and you see this happening to a woman, speak up. Your silence hurts us, too

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Alanis King

4 years

Was thinking about this today: A year ago, I was the only woman driving a KTM X-Bow Comp R at Sonoma. Dude immediately comes up: “You know this only comes in a manual, right?” “Yes.” (There’s a DSG, but I did not want to engage.) “Do you know how to drive a manual?” “Yes.”

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kristen

3 years

time 2 taste

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kristen

6 years

"I don't know which is hotter, you or the car!" "Your daddy must be rich!" "This your boyfriend's?" Like bitch, please! I can't have my own fucking shit? (No, this isn't my shit BUT STILL. It's the goddamn PRINCIPLE.)

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kristen

3 years

you think you're hot shit? my boyfriend owns a LASER PRINTER and he lets me use it 😭

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kristen

2 years

I'm so happy to be at a place like @thedrive where we can and will publish series like these. It's more important than ever to speak up and speak out and the automotive community is no damn exception

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We Are Proud: The Drive Celebrates Pride Month

Join us as we highlight queer people who have incontrovertibly helped shape the automotive landscape we live in.

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kristen

3 years

NEW STUNT ALERT: dispatches from a 14-degree night spent in an RS 6. enjoy, please

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I slept in an Audi RS 6 Avant wagon on a 14-degree night to prove that you don't need an SUV for...

Heard you guys like stunts on this internet of ours. Well, here's my latest stunt: spending a 14-degree night in the back of an Audi RS 6 Avant wagon.

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kristen

3 years

Big day today

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kristen

2 years

live laugh love? in this economy?

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kristen

2 years

just offered to make @alanisnking a whiskey ginger and she asked me to describe what ginger ale tastes like because she's never had it

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kristen

2 years

my dad weighs in

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kristen

4 years

::laughs in 18-year-old german car::

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Car and Driver

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The average age of vehicles on the road is approaching 12 years:

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kristen

4 years

Bragging for a second here (SORRY) but I made some fried rice with leftover duck fat and this shit is world ending

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kristen

3 years

some cadillac CT5-V blackwing noises 🍿🍿🍿

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kristen

3 years

i am so fucking old

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kristen

1 year

i think the thing that fucks me up the most is that he was totally, utterly bought in on the electric future. and now he won't get to see any of it

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kristen

3 years

Bitches make one pie and then think they can pie everything. It's me, I'm the bitches

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kristen

2 years

i wrote this

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The Drive

2 years

DESPITE BEING THE THIRD MOVIE RELEASED TECHNICALLY TOKYO DRIFT IS OFF-CANON BUT THEY WROTE IT BACK INTO CANON SO IF YOU WATCH IT AFTER FAST & FURIOUS 6 IT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE

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kristen

2 years

lotta Serious Car Men out there replying/emailing/commenting that it wouldn't be a problem if i simply wore driving gloves lmao get fuckin real connor

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kristen

3 years

Starting a thread for Car Noises. Sound on, friends!

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kristen

3 years

The last time I saw Jason I'm pretty sure we killed a bunch of wine in my kitchen and he covered my fridge with sketches

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Jason Torchinsky

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3 years

Look who just showed up at my door! A real @KristenLee ! What are the odds?

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2 years

I GOT SOME FUCKIN QUESTIONS

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What the Hell Is This Old Chevy Tahoe Doing in the New Halo Trailer?

Perhaps GMT800 Tahoes are so reliable, they can be found hundreds of years in the future and on other planets.

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kristen

1 year

what's the german word for "horrified but also completely unsurprised"?

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1 year

HAPPY 100K DAY!!!!!

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kristen

4 years

my first review for BI is up! it was nice to be back out and shooting again

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REVIEW: The Jeep Gladiator pickup truck is a monster off road, but might be too beastly for its own...

The Jeep Gladiator is the Jeep of all pickup trucks, rugged and ready for off-roading. But highway cruising is a completely different story.

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kristen

6 years

It fucks me up so much that "fridge" has a d in it and "refrigerator" does not

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kristen

7 months

it's true. the bar had 2 craft cocktails. she read the menu, looked at the bartender, and was like, "i need you to make one of these trashier for me." he said, "what"

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Alanis King

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Please join me and @kristenlee for a tour of a $65 million Bel Air mansion, where I famously went up to the bar and asked for "a drink that tastes like it's from Chuck E. Cheese"

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kristen

6 months

NOO YAWK BAYBEE

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6 months

IT'S @kristenlee ON NYC TV BABY WE MADE IT

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kristen

4 years

Believe it or not, this is like 99% of the way our conversations go

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kristen

3 years

I've never read anything more accurate

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Fred Smith

3 years

I love that TVRs are just Vipers built worse by people with less expertise and I love that the English and only the English think they are a wildly important part of automotive history

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kristen

3 years

omg!!!

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kristen

2 years

haven't picked up a pencil since I ragequit drawing in 2009 but also I need a hobby so now's as good a time as any to get back into it!

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kristen

1 year

"I'm not Toto Wolff's therapist, but if I was, I think I'd be discussing nightmares where ... a Silver Arrow Formula 1 car gets passed on a straightaway by a machine that says 'McDonald's' on the side." @_baldtires is out for BLOOD

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F1’s Billionaire Boys Club Is Afraid to Lose to America

The opposition to the Andretti-Cadillac bid isn’t just about money—in a sport dominated by Europe, it’s about losing face.

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kristen

3 years

I've always thought Han was the true hero of F&F and I got the incredible chance to chat with @sungkang , the guy who brought Han to life. (He's even cooler IRL you guys)

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'I'm Looking for My Own Han': Sung Kang on Building Communities, F&F and Things That Last

Kang is hyper-aware of his influence and tries to use it for good.

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kristen

3 years

Friends! HELP A GIRL OUT: Noticed a lot of EV charging stations are located in dark parking lots, which made me feel pretty unsafe/vulnerable, esp if I was alone at night. Have you had an experience like this? Email me (klee @insider .com) and send proof of your vehicle. Thanks 🖤

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kristen

3 years

Once again we are in agreement that Tokyo Drift is the best one

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Tim Stevens

3 years

I rewatched all the Fast & Furious movies ahead of this week's F9 release to try and figure out where it was I stopped hating and started loving this series. Sharing them with my wife for the first time made this revisiting extra fun. via @Roadshow

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kristen

3 years

let's add "journalists who can't write about a japanese car without also mentioning samurai/katana/ronin/honor" in there as well

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Daniel Golson

3 years

and tbh don't get me started on the way that some journalists still talk and write about Korean and especially Chinese cars. It's so often so gross and thinly veiled racism and legitimately just STUPID and bad writing.

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kristen

6 years

I love how the "crappy" car they gave Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty was a Datsun 280Z

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kristen

4 years

Read for the Costco trip, stay for the glass-coffin-Snow-White-level planking

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kristen

3 years

all of the Posting finally paid off

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kristen

2 years

the credits

@CarBibles

Car Bibles

2 years

On 2/2/22, we ask, what's the best scene in 2Fast2Furious?

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kristen

3 years

I deliberately put the toilet paper on the holder upside down to fuck with my boyfriend. I am an agent of chaos

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kristen

4 years

I go to auto shows to look for a husband

@wrenching_wench

Katie B

@wrenching_wench

4 years

Gotta love car guys that say girls are only into cars so they can shag all the blokes. Because yes, I am only in this so I can bang some dutty, greasy haired, vape smoking knob who’s been wearing the same oily hoodie and joggers for two weeks. I’d rather shit in my hands and clap

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kristen

3 years

I did it, I fuckin blogged about Twilight

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The Biggest Crime the Twilight Movies Committed Had to Do With a Volvo

Edward Cullen went from driving something cool to something quite uncool.

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