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You have maligned hogshit.

I lived there 16 years during college and post-college years where drinking was a sport and the post-game involved whatever food you could stuff down your face and never once did I not reject entirely the idea of proven on Pizza.

Isn’t a version of the RS’s 2.3-liter EcoBro engine available in the Explorer, but making, like, Mustang levels of power? Okay, I checked, it has 280 HP/310-lb.ft. but they also have a 365 HP 3.5-liter Eco engine.

Ask a pro photographer who needs a good, fast computer with the important bells and whistles (discrete video processing; super high resolution; stuffed with memory and fast storage, latest processor, etc.) and $3,000 is not outrageous. There are plenty of other professions where a $3,000 computer is the norm. Getting…

Another commented “no one,” but I’d counter with “everyone.”

The Juke has about 20 different design embellishments from so many different angles (literal and figurative). It’s design by committee, but with no one single person leading the committee. It’s a little bit of this, a little bit of that, a dash of whatever…

Same here, but without the cringe and the guilt.

And that just means $4,000 more in rebates if they actually want to sell the car.

Good point, but, then again, I, too, had high hopes for Obama closing Gitmo, which he promised on his first day in office to effect by the end of the first year. A full two terms and he couldn’t make it happen. Congress (I’m talking about you, Peter King) put the kibosh on it over and over again, and the legal black…

Where do I sign up?

Oh, man, a soundproof minivan would absolutely top the charts. We don’t need automatic doors or liftgates (okay, we do, but stay with me..). We don’t need on-board vacuum cleaners or amplified rear-seat speakers to yell at our kids. We need a goddamned silenced minivan.

Its sales would put F-150,…

Some of the single-issue supporters are anti-abortion.

We have Mexican friends (as in naturalized Mexicans, not Mexican-Americans) who voted for him because he is “a good Catholic,” despite him not really being a Catholic anyway.

I thought that abortion was not a factor this year, but I get the feeling that it was…

I have promised my kids so many times that we are getting a stretch limo for our next car, primarily so that I can put up the privately glass and drive again in peace. Price no object. I will even stock the bar back there for them if it helps them go so sleep faster.

The Mercedes W140/C140 were perhaps the best production automobiles ever built and sold to the public. No, they are not maintenance free, but they are as well engineered and as well built as cars ever got.

The problem is that the rest of us can’t take another bus. We are all stuck on the same ride together.

I am guessing he means last night at Berkeley, where some people went apeshit and they canceled Milo Ya-whats-his-name’s right-wing gibberish. What did they expect at Berkeley?

Trump Trucks?

Noted.

The article also includes this: “However, the DfT said it had found no vehicles outside the VW group with systems in place to deliberately rig emissions figures. Robert Goodwill, the junior transport minister, said: “Unlike the Volkswagen situation, there have been no laws broken. This has been done within the…

Well, the West Virginia University scientists whose test revealed the VW cheat also tested a BMW in the same manner which checked out just fine.

I know other cars have failed tests in other places (including a BMW X3 in Germany), but the VW cheat seems to be the worst.

Blaming VW’s diesel cheating on the standards misses the point of why and how they cheated. They had a directive from up high that included unrealistic power/performance targets within an equally unrealistic unit cost for production. The only way they could hit that target without the (perceived as) expensive urea…

Seeing the notebooks leads me to believe this might be a press event. I’ve been to similar such events where we were required to leave our phones and cameras as we entered the door. They could have easily done that. If the manufacturer really and truly wants something embargoed so they can have a big reveal in Geneva,…