True, they do swoon over the hyper-mobiles (like almost everyone).
But the thing I like about Jalopnik is they also have a healthy respect for cars that are interesting and unusual, while not necessarily powerful speed machines. (Like their perpetual almost-joke that the perfect car is a "brown, diesel, manual, RWD station wagon".)
The same writer who just won this very hypermiling contest also mounted a vigorous defense of the Mitsubishi Mirage against a scathing NY Times review. Actually, it's not so much a defense of the car itself (they only gave it 50/100 in their own review), so much as a critique of the way entry level cars are written about by spoiled car writers who lack perspective.
This Brutal NYT Mirage Review Is What's Wrong With Cheap Car Reviews
They're also not afraid of the future the way so many gearhead writers seem to be. The highest review score they've given to any car so far
was to the BMW i8 -- a 3-cylinder, turbocharged, plug-in hybrid.