After buying a Corvette and going to my first few meet ups, I realized I absolutely do not fit the stereotypical owner. That was in my late 20s, and now that I have had my car for near a decade it’s still most of the same.

All modern F1 cars are supposed to have a forward facing onboard camera that the FIA can access the feed from. It’s referred to in the regulations as the “high speed accident camera”. The camera has to be able to constantly transmit an external feed in case the car is in an accident that destroys it and data cannot be…

This is one - of the myriad - of reasons why I got out of home ownership during COVID-19. We have been seeing a huge housing spike upwards and as consequence assessed values have increased dramatically. Even if your land value doesn’t go up others around you can and probably will, which raises all land values across…

Twitter is what has to be the most difficult internet conundrum of modern times. Everyone knows good and well they probably shouldn’t be on it and really watch what they say like a hawk, except... all of the most well-known people are on Twitter (more so than any other social media platform) and to stay relevant they…

I deal with this situation a lot with the Corvette community. Late-model Corvette owners in particular have this fantasy in their head that they have to preserve their cars, when they forget that hundreds of thousands were created. And to be perfectly blunt their cars won’t be worth anything until most of us are…

I lol at this because I knew someone that actually DID buy an FD for $8K back around Y2K. Japanese RWD cars dropped HARD in the late 90s before everyone tried to be Takumi Fujiwara.

The 2000 Hyundai Sonata I owned. I really needed a new car and purchased it near “new” at a year old. I bought a very low trim V6 model. Working on it was one of the worst endeavors of a vehicle I’ve had to deal with. I particularly remember having to perform a tune up on the car around 80,000 miles, and getting the…

I was finishing up my degree when the PS3 launched, so between that and working full time this was one console that I waited quite a while to get. I actually didn’t buy one until the ‘09 holiday season when the slim had released. The situation wasn’t a bad thing for me. I had only recently a year or so prior purchased…

The fire station was likely built on local municipal-provided land. A service station would not only be built on commercial market land that would require purchase (and corner/intersection adjacent commercial lots in particular tend to be incredibly valuable) but you also have to consider construction costs for local…

You keep posting this in the comments, but the thing is if you walk up to a comedian and ask them to tell a joke, they better damn well be able to tell you some sort of half applicable joke to the situation out of their theoretical bag of jokes. Otherwise they’re laughably a comedian and probably need to reconsider…

My consistent issue with the EV charging situation is how have most fuel stations situated off of major highways not at least adapted some types of EV charging infrastructure, especially if one could assume that in the next few decades EVs are supposedly going to be higher count than ICE vehicles anyways. Like I know…

The F1 world needs to be remind that Tsunoda is currently the lowest paid driver on the grid at half a million US. Everyone on the grid besides him at the least makes a million US; that’s including the Haas duo that doesn’t even have any points. Tsunoda’s currently 14th in points and with a solid set of finishes could…

SMT is a lot more niche than Persona. Compared to P5’s millions of sales, Shin Megami Tensei 4 sold only 600,000 copies. That doesn’t make it any better or worse than the Persona games. It simply means that Persona is a more useful reference point, and it’s not actually a critical slight against your beloved series.

I once moved a queen size bed inside of my Eclipse Spyder. I sectioned out the pieces of the bed and moved it in two trips. Granted it was driving on backroads and through neighborhoods, but I moved the entire bed without needing to rent anything.

I moderate a huge Corvette owner’s group, and fuel type is always a hotly contested topic. It always end with “use premium ‘cause that’s what the owner’s manual tells you.”

That throttle cable bracket gave me tetanus just looking at it

I’m waiting for cars like the Chevrolet Celebrity to hit these sort of numbers. I remember a friend that was GIVEN a Celebrity by another friend. Friend 1 needed a car, Friend 2 had a Celebrity sitting around, and gave it to Friend 1. That’s how throwaway GM vehicles of the later 80s/early 90s were.

I work as an archivist by trade, and I often think of the same conflicts. What makes it worse with automobiles is that it’s often - relatively speaking - easy to restore any vehicle to “like new” condition. So why preserve something like this? If you ever need a really good example of a vehicle it can simply be…

Is David Portnoy the guy that does the “pizza reviews” for Barstool Sports, where all he does is seem like he takes one bite and that alone gives him critical analysis on what he’s eating? A friend of mine constantly tries to show me these reviews and they’re the absolute most cringeworthy garbage of mess that I think…

What makes the buyer assume that a standard major dealer is going to do a better job at accurately portraying the car? They’re often just as bad as not fixing issues or letting really hap-hazard vehicles go.