Housekeeping: Happy MLK Day, 2026

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

We're off Monday, January 19, 2026 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.


So, as per usual, there won't be much content, though news could break -- news that can't wait til Tuesday.

Take some time and reflect on what MLK managed to do in terms of racial progress -- and how much there is to be done.

Please play nice in the comments -- we're watching, and I check in even on days off. I don't want to banhammer anyone.

With that in mind, we'll see you Tuesday.

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • FTypeR FTypeR 7 days ago

    In America in 2026, armed and masked government goon squads are assaulting people because they're brown, to entertain the deplorables.


    If you support tRump's ICE/Gestapo, you're a POS, just like the orange pedophile himself.

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    • FTypeR FTypeR 5 days ago

      SC did I call on others to reduce emissions? No, I called you an incel MAGAt, which you clearly are. You like to talk about "tough guys" a lot. That's typical MAGAt stupidity. Your orange god is a make -up slathering pedophile and his VP wears eyeliner. Seems to me that you guys are a bunch of fancy guys....What's the difference between a republican wife and a democrat wife? The republican wife has a husband with a Grindr account. Suck it, scumbag.




  • Bd2 Bd2 7 days ago

    HD Hyundai is collaborating with Palantir!

  • MaintenanceCosts One of the cleaner-looking 200+k mile cars I've seen. Still fills me with fear and loathing.
  • MaintenanceCosts Looking forward to the ad-free Superb Owl.(Also some kind of football game which my hometown team is favored to win, despite having Joe Lunchpail as their quarterback.)
  • Foaming Solvent Rivian, specifically the soon-to-be-available R2.
  • 1995 SC From any analysis I've seen so far the big winner here is Tesla, which is ironic if that comes to pass lol
  • Foaming Solvent "Governor Carney."As Eric Hoffer said, "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
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