The Fit may be the problem. I’ve only done this in an E46, which is eons more fun. The southern route is admittedly more fun, but there’s a good time to be had in plenty of places along the way. If you can’t survive outside a city, just stopping in Salt Lake City, Denver, Omaha, Iowa City, and Chicago will bring you…

Counterpoint: I’m a pinko commie New Yorker who gets an absolute kick out of driving cross-country in any occasion. Yes, people express some opinions I disagree with, but it’s one of the singular pleasures of living in this country to drive coast-to-coast, whether solo or with a buddy. Your mileage does vary based on…

In this guy’s defense, that’s not really what he’s asking, at least as I read his comment. It’s not whether or not people drove worse and crashed more, it’s whether it was specific original actors or a collectively higher mean rate of travel. Both are plausible to me, especially since speed limits are generally set at…

I will stiffly and stubborn beat the sedan-drum till the sedan’s (increasingly likely) untimely death. Glad to know a fellow traveler.

While we’re at it, anybody know a good aluminum welder in NYC? My local shop will only work with steel. I looked up a couple options but no connection to any of them. Small project, nothing serious.

It’s crazy! NYC honking is such a norm that people don’t even get annoyed unless you truly lean on the horn. The green light honk is practically an apology, people will even give you a little wave to admit their mistake. Don’t get me wrong, less honking would probably be more pleasant, but the city’s so noisy anyway,…

I was gonna say maybe car size is a factor, but judging by the handle we’re in roughly the same boat. I’m in an ‘01 E46, which feels like a Miata on certain interstates.

Yes, pretty much surefire for drunk and/or crazy. That was back when I was living in Rhode Island, where the joke is that it’s the only place in the country where everybody drives a pickup truck and still votes for a Democrat. Bit of a free-for-all in parts of the tiny state.

“New Yorkers don’t care about honking to begin with.”

Good point. I think they have a FWD Transit platform for the EU market though, and that would sort of make sense to me for a light-load setup like a local mail truck. Doesn’t matter now, though.

That’s a good point, I didn’t know about that. Definitely would color my perception of him a little bit. I always think that’s the easiest way to tell somebody’s character – the way they treat somebody who’s serving them. At least I felt that way working similar jobs. My grandfather was a caddy for a lot of his life,…

Wonder how the cubic capacities of these vans compare. You’d have to think the Transit-bodied vehicle has eons more space than some of the others. When I think LLV, I think more of a Transit Connect-sized vehicle than a full Transit. I imagine USPS was perfectly happy with the current capacities and didn’t see a need…

Isn’t Workhorse just a big company? They make, like, UPS trucks. Why are we referring to Workhorse as something Trump-tarred? Did they specifically ally with Trump (more than say, Tim Cook at Apple, who we usually let off scot-free) or something?

Not sure what distinction you’re making. That’s just how a high-level corporate or institutional setting fires somebody. It happens constantly – people announce they’re ‘resigning’ and that the decision is supported by their bosses. In the rare case you see somebody protest that they were forced out, but that’s…

Brings back memories of Old Top Gear motorhome and bus racing...

Re-read that statement. It was noted that the “White House supported his decision to resign.” Everybody in Washington understood he was fired.

Right. Not a fan of this “it’s doom, it will remain doom, and doom will forever persist” attitude. These mRNA vaccines could reasonably be called a miracle, efficacy-wise, and this consistent underselling of everything is insanely counterproductive. The numbers from Israel, which is practically the world’s largest…

Well, are you right that Tiger was absolutely treated worse because of his race? Yes. But does this phenomenon stretch far beyond racial lines? Also yes. I brought up the (tiny, but indicative) example of that TJ Ducklo situation in another comment, just because it’s fresh in my mind. But we do this with a lot of…

Not that I don’t agree with you, but I don’t think this is celebrity-specific.

Wait, what? Of course I agree with you that it was a tragically stupid decision to host it last time, but there is not an epidemiologist on earth who thinks that the conditions in May/June ‘21 will be the same that they were in August ‘20.