Sounds like a pretty creative setup

All good calls. I’ve got a good winch on my expedition rig. It’s saved my ass many a time.

I did it over a weekend. Took both days though.

I did it myself on one of my e39s. It’s a pain in the ass, but well within the limits for the average DIY garage mechanic.

They’re fine, dude. I’ve trusted my life to them many times.

I don’t know how much you go adventurin’, but if you were out adventurin’, and relying on yourself to fix whatever goes wrong with nothing but your trusty toolbox, what would you have in the box besides your standard wrenches, hammers, and screwdrivers?

Exactly. It’s an SUV that can’t off-road, tow, or do real work. SUV speed with sedan/wagon utility.

Yeah, you’re right. I looked it up. The base does it in 8, but the V6 does it in 5.8. The 2-liter 4-banger CTS does it in 5.8. The E-350 is under 6. A Charger R/T is 5.3. A base Maxima does it in 5.9. 7 seconds can’t really be considered fast anymore.

Tough to find recent cars that cost around 50k new with 0-60 times over 7. I’d be surprised if a new plain-vanilla Camry wasn’t getting you to 60 in under 6.

Crossovers are automatically disqualified. If you use it as a truck, it can’t tow, go off-road, or pull stumps. If you use it as a car, it’s too slow, too ugly, and doesn’t handle well enough. It’s the worst of both worlds.

Honestly, I think the e39 540 is as close as a car has ever come to perfection. It’s timeless, it’s beautiful, it’s fast, it handles great, it sounds amazing, it fits 4 comfortably, it has a big trunk, it’s reliable when properly cared for, it gets solid mileage, and best of all, you could go out tomorrow and pick up…

Exactly! Torii Hunter is some dumb guy with bigoted opinions. He thinks that a bearded man in the sky wants him to hate gays, so he does. It says it right there in the Bible. The bearded man also says you shouldn’t eat fish, and everything a menstruating woman touches is unclean, and slaves should obey and fear their…

This is getting pretty deep. I’m not saying his opinions are right. I’m not saying his opinions are okay. I don’t know much about Torii Hunter, but I’d bet his opinions are the result of a combination of a strict Christian upbringing and basic ignorance. His original comments were made in response to pointed questions…

Yeah, benign. A Christian saying that gays are bad, and using semi-celebrity status to cash a quick check from a politician with similar views is pretty benign. On a macro scale, yeah, it’s a huge problem, but that doesn’t mean we’re allowed to individually vilify every person in America still holding on to old school…

There’s nothing to discuss. That’s the issue. To address your ‘other side of the coin’ argument: yes, it would be weird if a guy had done a radio spot for a liberal candidate, then said a few times that there’s nothing wrong with being gay, and that aspect of his beliefs took up more than half of an article about the…

My point is that there’s no reason to dedicate 7 paragraphs of an 11-paragraph article about the end of a baseball player’s career to his political beliefs, no matter how much we may disagree with them. When next season rolls around, and people hear the name ‘Torii Hunter’, they won’t remember that he did some radio…

That sentence supports my point.

That’s fair.

Granted, he kind of opened himself to criticism by speaking publicly about political shit, but it looks more like he’s just a religious dude on the wrong side of an issue. That doesn’t make him a shitty person. He’s an athlete. His political/sociological views shouldn’t warrant more than a brief note (if that) in the…

I find it wack that half of this article is dedicated to calling him a shitty person. Not disagreeing with anything said, just saying.