What’s happened to Honda / Acura generally regarding its former dedication to smartly engineered, mechanically bulletproof, fun-to-drive cars?

Porsche. There is no substitute.

Gold kits. Never look good; usually an index of a bad car / bad driver.

I wondered the other day whether vaccine “skeptics” get vaccinated to travel overseas. Or vaccinate their dogs against rabies. Are they campaigning to stop vaccinate campaigns in foreign countries?

Or is it just wealthy white American humans who now magically don’t need / are harmed by vaccines?

‘79 Cadillac Sedan DeVille?

I think they’re the best-looking small coupes around, until you get up to the Cayman. Like an Opel GT. It’s refreshing to see — so much ugly / boring out there these days.

I can’t do convertibles. I’ve driven them; I get how great they are on a beautiful day. Too many compromises unless you have room for a “weekend car,” which I don’t.

... which leaves what for the ultimate?

I liked it too, although that’s not what “penultimate” means.

Why is this car struggling so hard for car-guy acceptance? Rear-wheel drive and a handsome sports-coupe shape for small dollars isn’t that easy to come by.

“You Irish, with your Honda Accords, always walking to the mailbox!”

... and in the winter, you can shovel snow with that front lip. Points for one fuzzy dice (die?) per horsepower.

Yeah, the libertarian arguments for 100% drug legality fall apart pretty quickly when you consider how that would play out in the “free market.” It’s one thing to differentiate between types of drugs, and to treat addiction as a health rather than a criminal issue, but we probably don’t want drive-through crack…

All that contrarian huffing that hybrids and electrics didn’t all, out-of-the-gate, improve on every aspect of the automotive experience and result in zero environmental impact of any kind was pretty silly to begin with.

As though the tech wasn’t worth pursuing unless it was better, faster, cheaper, and 100% clean…

Except all of that hybrid-hating nonsense has been repeatedly debunked, of course. The math still works out in favor of electrics and hybrids unless you make ridiculous assumptions about gas cars going 200,000 miles with no maintenance or fluids and use outdated information on what the batteries are made of and where…

Yes, if you’re lumping tax evasion in there.

Possibly the neck tattoos were a bridge too far. Certainly many fine people, perhaps without the jailhouse buzz cut and the aforementioned facial hair, have and enjoy them with my full support, although these are also awful crappy ones.

Protip: The side of a scientific issue on which you find the “Church of Scientology” is THE WRONG SIDE.

Science has already had that conversation, though. It’s not like we developed vaccines on a whim, or keep using them out of habit. They ARE studied and vetted and tested. Big Pharma is not capable of stopping all science on Earth from discovering that vaccines are secretly poisoning people. People more qualified than…

And it looks like it can be further broken down by the presence / absence of a neck tattoo.

Any two of the dome-shaped buzzcut, the fussy facial hair tapestry, and the neck tat = Been to or headed to prison?

Is Vaughn really playing against type? Seems like his characters are always vaguely menacing schmucks, with varying levels of goofy / crazy / douchey mixed in. This version just adds “uptight” to the mix.

Can’t wait for his inevitable meltdown / doing that thing where he slams people backwards into walls by gripping…