Matt Hardigree

Gawker Media’s Executive Editor for Publishing Partnerships. Ex-Jalopnik EiC.
  • The Largest LEGO Technic Ever Is A Unimog

    The European truck most noted for its complete badassedness is the Mercedes-Benz Unimog – a vehicle so large the company determined Americans would find it offensively huge. Now LEGO is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the truck by building a scale 2000+ piece version that’s the largest Technic set ever sold.


  • Thor Press Kit Causes Bomb Scare In Bus Terminal

    A briefcase-shaped press kit touting Acura’s product placement in the film Thor caused a bomb scare and evacuation at a bus station in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, after a writer for buff book Automobile tossed it in a dumpster. What’s so scary about a press kit?


  • After 100 Years, Goodyear Ditches Blimps For Zeppelins

    After building blimps for almost 100 years, Goodyear’s teaming up with Ze Germans and canning their three blips for a fleet of Teutonic zeppelins set to go into operation in 2013. The zeppelins will be longer, fly faster, and hold more people. None of which will help make it anything but a more novel way…