You’re going to get ravaged for saying that. All the bros will be triggered to come out of the woodwork to berate you with homophobic or misogynist bullshit. I sweat like crazy when lifting, so I have been using gloves for years. No shame.

Also, most assholes who use chalk leave a mess. Which is fine, I suppose, in…

The car was super clean in Phoenix, that’s for sure. I think I have some black-and-white photos of it from that day around here somewhere. 

Somebody’s always getting hands on the Krafts, that’s for sure. 

When I went in 1991, I think the announced attendance on race day was 20,000, but I am pretty sure a lot of those people were dressed up as empty seats. The access—and lack of general security—was fantastic.

Some friends and I sat one one of the cars that had been pulled off the track early due to a wreck, a Dallara,…

It looked even better earlier in the ‘91 season before Fuji and Tic Tac signed up. I was probably one of about 12 paying customers at the ‘91 U.S. GP at Phoenix* they debuted this thing at.

* This would appear to be too many trees to be the downtown Phoenix course, but it is early in the ‘91 season for sure. 

Well, since it’s been reported here what this stuff tastes like, I guess Florida Man is in luck now.

Shots on goal is a meaningless stat if the shots don’t go in.

Yeah, and it debuted only 12 months ago. 

This. I have the Dewalt equivalent, that, while extremely useful, definitely has limitations, the likes of which are handily exceeded by even a semi-decent pneumatic impact wrench.

Except that Nissan was already getting a little action on the side playing the dominatrix to Mitsubishi, and inviting FCA to the party would make it a full-on orgy with Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Fiat, Maserati, Alfa Romeo—and so on. Whew! Who could possibly keep track of those relationships?

Except this thing. I am pretty sure it won’t iron out.

Former Vermontarianite now living in the South.* I can get the cheese almost anywhere, but finding the beer is a struggle. Why is Otter Creek somehow not able to cross the Mason-Dixon Line? WHHHYYYYYY?!?!?

* Unlike the majority of Yankees living down here (and, my god, the reinvasion of the South is going full song…

I’ve driven a bunch of X5Ms and X6Ms over the years and can confirm that they make zero sense at all, but are the most wickedly fun SUVs (or “SAV” in BMW-speak) to drive on the road.

Definite nice price here. 

I had a friend who bought a used E30 M3 back in the day (when they were simply used cars). A teenage kid came up to him ask him where he got the car. Turns out teenage kid was friends with the previous owner, another teenage kid, only richer, and then goes on to tell him about the time they chained the M3's axle to a…

Thanks for the explanation.

I moved from pretty much the densest urban area in the country (aka The City; no need to say “New York”) to perhaps the most rural state in the Northeast: Vermont—and loved both. We must be of the same mind.

In Vermont, we lived on three plus acres in a relatively modern house (built in the…

From what I have gathered, towns and cities seem to love HOAs, because the HOA can require covenants that would never get passed by a city council, such as rules regarding weeds in your grass, what can and can’t be parked in a driveway, even down to the make, model, and color of your mailbox (seriously, the freaking…

That’s a pretty strong take, but as a Yankee who recently moved to North Carolina,* I should note that North Carolina is, indeed, being ruined by Yankees moving down here. And they all live in HOA-governed neighborhoods. I guess I should add that the things we haven’t ruined yet aren’t so bad.

Focus RS owner here. Let’s just get out and say it right away—most dealers suck, and are just so terrifically happy about sucking that is seems to become their priority, like “Last quarter we sucked 87.6% of the time. We need to boost that suck up to 90% this quarter to meet our bonus targets.” That kind of suck.

That…

Doing the math, that’s $3,000,000. Not a ton of engineering into a motor that is expected to blow up at some point and is based on an 800-hp, pump-gas street engine. The next batch requires no engineering--that work is done. It’s gravy at that point. Perhaps chump-change gravy to a company FCA’s size, but gravy…

Did you not read the press releases this week? Audi of America sales dropped 21 percent in April 2019 vs April 2018. BMW showed a small increase and Mercedes-Benz was also off a fair bit. Audi flat out tanked, performing far worse than the market overall.

You are only as good as your last day on the job. Nobody will…