Ah. The comment never made reference to the interior or any particular part of it like the infotainment.

When did he say we’re only talking about the touchscreen? His comment was why update “all the shit” in something after 20 years, when “all the shit” will need to be updated again in 20 more years.

I assumed “all the shit” was more all-encompassing than a touchscreen.  I think that was a pretty good assumption on my…

I mean, is it any different than any other restomod? For example, if five years ago you took an old S30 and put in modern disk brakes and say a donor VQ and six speed from a wrecked Z34, you’d have a great car for today. But in 20 years, of course it will be outdated. Does that make the restomod a bad idea? I mean,…

Sigh. Username checks out.  I should not have fed the troll :(

First paragraph: false choice. The only options are not watch TV or drive for Uber. There are hundreds of things you could do with three hours and their value is not strictly determined by how much money is in your bank account after those three hours are up.

Dude, you’re like half a year late to this party. You missed the context of articles posted early last year very close to this one. Without that context, you have no idea what you’re talking about. I assure you that there is only one person that looks like an idiot, and that’s the guy who apparently spent his holiday…

Who is talking about “most of the world”?  OP surely makes more than $2 an hour so I’m not sure what your point is.

Please hide snuff pictures behind a link, this is NSFW.

He literally said “driving for 3 hours”. Why would anyone not assume he meant what he said?

It really all depends on your own situation. As I mentioned in a comment below, playing dad + husband + full time job + trying to have a car hobby + unwinding to keep my sanity = having a side gig is a straight up nope.

But 10 years ago when I had nothing better to do with my single self than go to car…

Is it? I mean, I spend 10+ hours a day working/commuting, another 3 with housework/spending time with kids, and if I’m lucky, 7 sleeping. That leaves me with only a few hours a day to actually unwind, assuming I have no extracurriculars or projects of my own to get around to.  I sure as heck would consider some screen…

Yeah, I’m struggling to see who would consider 3 hours of their time well spent in exchange for a $20. I made better money than that nearly 20 years ago building cardboard boxes to transport produce straight out of the field. As a highschool freshmen.

“PB4” may have been in there along with “PEEB4" or something? Or that exact plate may have been used and rejected in another state, who then added it to their list which was shared/combined with other lists and made it’s way to NH. But fair enough, this particular example might have been the result of a cranky…

I also forgot to mention how the tires will ALWAYS look dirty on this car. No matter how freshly powerwashed they are or how much wheel goop you put on. 

You are absolutely right. Which is why... again... I said these are usually databases of specific character combinations. Tens of thousands of them. Not an algorithm. For a simplistic example, you may have records in the table that look like:

shit, sht, sh1t, shite, sh1te, shitter, shtter, sh1tter... you get the idea.…

Yes there is. I ran a personalization system for an online retailer in a past job. There are lists of slangs and offensive words you can subscribe to and download. Our list had tens of thousands of records and was updated as new slangs and words were invented by the teens and such. With so many plates in any given…

Oh sure, there are definitely gradients of “sport”. I wouldn’t consider it a sports sedan. Sporty? Absolutely. But this isn’t a Mazdaspeed6 or an ///M or an AMG. Just a midsize family hauler with great driving dynamics for its class and now a bit more oomph to support that.

This is all absolutely ridiculous and a waste of absolutely everyone’s resources.

My 2006 6 was the most reliable stock car I’ve owned over the 2.5 years I had it.  And it had 150k on it when I purchased.  But anecdotes aren’t good evidence so I’m sure there were plenty of lemons.  I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison to the 2014+ 6s though, because the first two generations were basically Fusions…

The command dial is much easier to use than a touch screen. You either twist, flick, or press. All with one hand, resting not stretching or leaning or reaching, and able to repeat functions from muscle memory after putting both hands back on the wheel and having to break concentration to make sure you’re tapping the…