Well, I have a message for everyone involved in this. I’m sorry we’re in this situation. And, um ... I’m just sorry we’re in this situation.

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The winter/summer tire split is nice in theory, but it’s impractical unless you drive a certain amount and have good storage space. Tires really don’t last much beyond 7 years, especially if you don’t have the car garaged. If you’ve only got winter tires on a maximum of 5 months out of the year, at < 10k miles a year…

The roll hoop did not break. There is a cover on the roll hoop and that was taken off along with the camera pod. 

I think we all need this:

Don’t judge, but I spent a lot of time around bikers back in the day. Trust me on this: they’re a bunch Nazis. That dude’s SS tat is as common as beer guts and black T-shirts among the Harley crowd. Fuck those guys.

Admittedly way down the ladder of concern, I’ll note that the one closest to Marmalade Mao has a Harley-Davidson patch on, which they are supposed to be boycotting, because of, I dunno, reasons. Like Harley wanting to stay in business in the face of ruinous tariffs.

Preach !

Already done:

the plural of anecdote is not data. 

Can somebody help me understand the obsession with depreciation? Because both of my brothers in law obsess about this, so they buy 6 year old cars with 100,000 plus miles on them that fail catastrophically and expensively shortly thereafter.

Cappuccino..........yum!

Except the small 250cc-500cc bike, according to the press release, is for India and emerging markets. And it sounds like it’s going to be made by another company.

For the exact same reason folks buy expensive, vintage wines, stick them in a cellar, and never drink them, until they sell them to the next person that does the same thing. They aren’t buying a wine. They’re buying an asset they hope will appreciate in value, it just happens to take the form of wine.

This is exactly what Lexus did with the LFA and it worked. You didn’t see any LFA’s on the secondary market at launch and it appears most of the cars stayed with the owners after the 2 year lease was up instead of being flipped by people looking to make a buck.

Many people are mad about Michigan J. Frog’s place on this list. I see it as the Road Runner thing: The famous cartoon with Michigan J. Frog in it is one of the funniest Looney Tunes shorts ever made, but the frog himself isn’t actually all that funny or dynamic. Pretty much all the hilarity comes from the reaction…

What happy car do you want right now?

California was the first state to really limit emissions and require fuel efficiency, so when the Clean Air Act, and act of Congress passed by Nixon, CA was granted an exemption from the general rule that states can’t pass different standards. In part, this was due to politics, but it was also due to the fact that CA,…