Jalopnik greatly exceeded the level of garbage that was normal for the automotive niche at any given point in time. They had some good years early on but at some point there was a hard cut from that to "I can't tell if they're trying to satirize Reddit or if the journalists actually believes their own bullshit" content.
I argue it was about the time the GMG was recognized that quality took a major quality blow. Then it got dumped out from there and split out along with Gizmodo and the other blogs and their quality equally suffered.
