That Lincoln Continental guy points out something I’ve never gotten my head around myself: how could vehicles that big be made to be just average sized inside. It’s like a reverse bag-of-holding or something. I swear there’s enough structural space in the door sills to put a body in there. Probably happened.

I think Mr. Sheriff I’ve-seen-it-all can probably grant the awards he chooses. What I want to know is who called the trail “unofficially open”? That was classic.
That said, I know people who’ve been on hiking trails with that designation. 

I mean, ironically, isn’t that how you get a PhD in ass clownery though, really?   

Without a poptop it’s not worth it...they don’t pull down money without that feature.  This is just an old van with a table. 

A weekender without a pop-top is just a van with a table and coolbox. I had a weekender this color with a poptop for about a year in ‘98 and I had to let it go due to employment issues. Huge regret. This van, also huge regret... hard no. That poptop makes all the difference and that’s why those with it are worth so…

This should be two categories--what trends will die, and what ones that should die.   What will die?  cars:  sedans and wagons apparently.   What should die?  SUVs.  

As a general rule I want to move towards a green future, but the movement against animal ag concerns me because it actively destroys the livelihoods of a lot of farmers with pretty much zero people talking about how they are going to move those individuals to other good, stable green jobs. Thus I support research that…

Um...

It’s true, it’s perhaps a touch insensitive, but on the other hand, given that the Japanese brutally tortured and murdered my great uncle in a committed war crime and pretty much did a great many more of them to US troops and to the citizenry of a whole host of other countries, including murdering the mother and…

No, we cannot, because they cannot acknowledge it themselves.  They should reconsider putting people into cabinet level positions who wrote books denying Japanese WWII atrocities. 

SW will always be a 2nd tier for me since they are not international, do not have bookable seats.   Kind of a hassle for family fliers.  I mean, you can do a lot worse, sure.    But yeah, the top three can be a crap shoot if you get a bad customer service rep.  I will say that also, having a CC branded with the…

Musk made unrealistic promises about price and range. I’m curious if he keeps them. On one hand, I am not holding my breath. On the other, the Tesla semi largely kept its promises, though it is only being produced in small numbers. So if those promises are near reality, I might be interested, even with the crappy…

I dunno, that’s a helluva lot of car for $45k these days.   Yeah, I’m not in love with a $700 payment either, but of course, there is the trade, and you know, putting money down, which is what I intend to do.   We live in a new reality.   Thanks for the heads up, Tom.   I’ll be watching into the fall.  I’m seriously…

Seems to be the American way.... build an ecosystem, then screw `em. I honestly was hoping for more than a two day “strike”. I’m personally taking a longer break from reddit. Some communities that I cared about have slowly become more toxic over time anyway. There’s a reddit hive mind that can be annoying to deal…

your suspension?  :)   

Good thing the Biden Build Back Better Act is littering the country with fast chargers.   I think we’ll live.   On one hand, it takes a bit longer to “fuel up”, on the other, my truck go fast.   

This is the right question, and that’s why this doesn’t matter.  Except for the availability of fast chargers.  That’s all that matters.   I certainly want a lot of range, but I’m already factoring in range loss for towing/hauling.   My only real concern (besides initial costs) at this point is lack of charging…

My biggest complaint is that the FAA was supposed to set a minimum seat pitch in 2018 and haven’t done anything about it in lessee—5 years! Here’s an article complaining about the delay in 2020:

I’m not a small person, but I don’t care if someone reclines their seat.   That’s what they are there for.  It’s not like they go back that much.    I sometimes recline and sometimes don’t.  NBD.

The problem is that this kind of stuff gets solved with a really bad and prolonged recession.    But then we all have to suffer immensely for it.  So yeah, not so fun.