Particular emphasis on this delusional, elitist statement: “Also, if you live in New York City and you are fortunate enough to own a car and you don’t want your bumper to get nicked then you are probably also fortunate enough to rent a garage space.” Garage spaces run up to $800/month in the central city. And car…

Well, it has, and companies realized it was economically undesirable, and so we got Global Ford, VW group’s shared platforms, et cetera. I think it’s safe to say that multinational companies are all moving away from country-specific model lines, and at the very least to market-specific models (i.e., Latin…

Personally, I think this ship is in motion from a purely capitalist perspective – companies aren’t going to want to have two completely different products in the globalized market between EU and US cars – and major manufacturers are all going to grind towards EVification whether the administration tells them to or…

“the staffer who will remain nameless said they’d prefer not to do a 13 hour drive”

Today in Los Angeles I saw a plate on a Tesla that read “ILVMUSK” over #blacklivesmatter. Winner!

Dunno, this era is an objectively bad time to be a car enthusiast, if you like the traditional things that car enthusiasts like (tactile connection to the engine, the road, handling, steering feel, low center of gravity, etc.). There’ve been other times in the history of cars when the majority of the market was crap…

Can’t spec it with a standard?

I never thought we’d reach the day when the critiques of hegemonic Eurocentric colonialist mindsets that I learned in college were applied not to people, art, or books, but to cars, and yet here we are. I don’t even know if I can work out a moral-political analysis of what it means to be Eurocentric in car design, and…

You can always grab one of the five X3 manuals, six X5 manuals, or the seven Cayenne manuals!

Hodge should appreciate this, I remember him mentioning a love of RTSes. These are phenomenal machines and the DD50, taken care of, is a bulletproof engine. This is probably old enough that it’s a non-EGR model, so even more flexibility there.

No, you’re right to point out that the math is hard – as long as some guns are floating around, the thought is going to be there. But I do think it’s in degrees – the more guns around, the more possible it is your average traveler will be carrying one, the more a cop has to worry. There are plenty of other countries…

You’re probably going to think I’m a pinko commie, but I’m actually viewing this from the perspective of LEO safety. Cops treat every encounter as if they’re at risk of being shot or grievously wounded. They’re always on edge, hand on holster, ready to fire. Traffic stops are very, very fraught, and that’s part of why…

There are ‘experts’ who can verify essentially any braindead opinion offered anywhere in the world – take it from Sidney Powell and the Trump legal team. Doesn’t make the point any more legitimate or any less knee-jerk.

Why is the knee-jerk response to systemic issues so often to abandon all regulation rather than improve the norms?

This is America. It’s your god-given right – nay, obligation – to have a fully-detailed plan for your life when, not if, you make your millions!

Ferrari did away with stalks for wheel-mounted signals about a decade and a half ago, no? Has that generally been successful for them or do drivers find it an annoyance?

Co-sign from a fellow E46 driver. The only upside is that most of my driving is either 1) on large highways where I’m far enough from oncoming traffic to avoid being blinded or 2) in urban areas where nobody drives a pickup. But yes, when I’m on two-lane backroads, complete pain in the ass facing those lights.

Oh I know – and what a soundtrack it is! Those ‘Love Theme’ variations are all great.

This reminds me of something I like to say occasionally, something of an original saying that I came up with or perhaps somebody in my family coined: ‘to err is human; to forgive, divine.’

Greenery like that would have screwed up the best scenes in Zabriskie Point, one of my favorite critically-panned movies...