http://jalopnik.com/5920778/is-this-the-first-totaled-2013-dodge-dart
Stupid kids...
http://jalopnik.com/5920778/is-this-the-first-totaled-2013-dodge-dart
Stupid kids...
Awesome.
Apparently trying to do his best Pastrana impersonation... and failed.
Wonder if it's actually Chrysler owned and a son of an Executive, Program manager, etc. I would imagine they have been tooling around in those for a while now.
Still though.. DAMN I hit a HOUSE!!
The post are rather amusing under the article.
Anti-stance wrote: The post are rather amusing under the article.
Amusing isn't the word I'd use. Depressing? Lost-all-faith-in-humanity? Idiotic? Mind-numbing?
Ugh, jalop, what has become of yee!
Wow. Glad nobody is dead after that combination of decisions.
Non-Jalop link for those of us that can't stand Gawker Media?
Osterkraut wrote: Non-Jalop link for those of us that can't stand Gawker Media?
+1
This Is The First Totaled 2013 Dodge Dart
They've barely made it to dealer lots, but it appears an intoxicated 16 year old has already managed to crash a 2013 Dodge Dart into a house in Rochester Hills, Mi.
The crash occurred early this morning after the male driver lost control of the car while traveling at a high rate of speed. According to ClickonDetroit.com the car "hit a large landscaping boulder and then flipped over and crashed into the attached garage of a residence." Two unidentified vehicles parked in the garage were also damaged in the crash.
All five teenage occupants attempted to flee the scene of the accident. One occupant collapsed at the rear of the destroyed Dart while the driver managed to make it a few houses away before passing out. The other three occupants of the vehicle were able to get away from the scene. Both the driver and the collapsing passenger are now listed in stable condition.
Rather unsurprisingly alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the crash. Still there is an obvious question left to be answered—How did this 16 year old get their hands on a vehicle that hasn't officially arrived on dealer lots yet?
Chrysler spokesman Ralph Kisel told the Detroit Free Press this past week the first 250 examples of the compact Dodge arrived in the Great Lakes region on Wednesday. Under four days later one of those cars is already an insurance write-off.
Because there is no mention made of the car being stolen, we're left to assume the young driver of this Dart was somehow related to a Dodge dealer in the area who's currently having a very bad day.
Osterkraut wrote: Non-Jalop link for those of us that can't stand Gawker Media?
plus half a million.
I swear to dog, if I see one more article about how Jeremy Clarkson fell down, I'll punch twenty babies.
Ever since Ray Wert's Awesomeness Manifesto, it's all been downhill.
(It's turned around slightly since he left, btw)
Yeah I'm kind of in the same place when it comes to Jalop and Gawker sites in general. It's too bad, Jalopnik used to be a decent car blog written by a bunch of real car guys, now it's just a bunch of juvenile humor written by clueless interns interspersed with the occasional stupid wreck or craigslist find. Only good part of the whole site is the user-generated stuff, like the QOTD/AOTD and the like.
I loathe over-privileged kids. I loathe their parents just as much. 
No big loss, its just a tin can econocar FWD pos. Glad no one was killed though.
Max_Archer wrote: Yeah I'm kind of in the same place when it comes to Jalop and Gawker sites in general. It's too bad, Jalopnik used to be a decent car blog written by a bunch of real car guys, now it's just a bunch of juvenile humor written by clueless interns interspersed with the occasional stupid wreck or craigslist find. Only good part of the whole site is the user-generated stuff, like the QOTD/AOTD and the like.
But that's OK cause we got you guys to weed through the chaff and tell us about the good stuff. I don't mind links when they go to good articles and not just a website in general.
Used to Jalop every day. After Murillee Martin left, that was the final death knell. The quality of the writing went down as did the quality of the commenting. Blog commenting used to be a craft. Now its been democratized down to little more than trite memes and platitudes.
Javelin wrote:Anti-stance wrote: The post are rather amusing under the article.*Amusing* isn't the word I'd use. Depressing? Lost-all-faith-in-humanity? Idiotic? Mind-numbing? Ugh, jalop, what has become of yee!
Yeah, the comments make we want to bash in my computer screen.
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