For those of us that are keeping an eye out for these cars, this one is NP all the way. The IRS / turbo version is the best spec they offered, and most of these cars have interiors that have been shredded by years of indifferent upkeep.

Today isn’t the day that I have cash or garage space for one of these things, but…

Yeah, the interior of this Brabus is pretty spartan compared to the best stuff from Newell, Prevost, Airstream, etc. It might actually be slower, too - those diesel pushers with a modern Cummins I6 turbodiesel have like 600 horsepower and over 1800 lb-ft of torque with a 50-60k lb weight.

I’m guessing this is for…

Look, I know that he’s just the besuited projection of the Curtis Yarvin racist/monarchist ghoulscape. BUT - he’s correct about this, and if you’d read the paper “Car Seats as Contraception” instead of just linked to it, you’d see that the 100k number is pretty much correct. If you multiply the change in 3rd-child…

Bought a Mercedes E450 and it’s got the aforementioned infuriating tech. The menus for the secondary controls are annoying. The nav system is annoying. The ADAS wheel shaking is annoying without actually making me a safer driver - it won’t, for example, keep the car in a lane by itself, even though it veers sharply…

Yeah, electronic fuel injection vs. the more problematic mechanical Spica system.

I thought the S3 and S4 versions were galvanized, but maybe I need to check that.

Hence the appeal of the late-80 / early-90s Alfa Spiders, after they went to fuel injection and galvanized steel bodies. Unfortunately, the last few of those on Bring A Trailer seem to be going for over $20k, sometimes over $30k. Not a cheap thrill anymore.

I’ve had a couple of travel trailers and have friends that are very into the #vanlife thing. With the exception of Airstreams, every trailer I’ve seen — including the ones I’ve owned — are hot garbage. Having a motorhome just creates all the problems of a badly-built house, on top of a truck of middling reliability.

Hav…

The funny thing about the Mach-E is that it oversteers and feels like too much power for its chassis, just like a real Mustang. It also makes funny sci-fi hot-rod noises in “Unbridled” mode. If “Mustang” means “big stupid fun,” the Mach-E is pretty on-brand.

Alfa was going to be my answer, too. Especially the 70’s GTV coupes. The sound, the steering feel, the gorgeous looks. Yes, go ahead and leak stuff on my garage floor.

Getting really tired of you deranged motherfuckers trying to paint Biden as a pedophile. He’s not, nobody has a credible case that he is, and he’s been in the public eye since the 1970s. Yes, I’ve seen all your video montages. His behavior is benign.

Is Biden old and dottering? Yeah. But Trump is *also* old and…

Hot take: This is actually a good idea. Chinese companies do not currently sell cars in the US (with the low-vol exceptions of Buick / Volvo / Polestar). So prices won’t rise due to tariff pressure. We’ll simply keep BYD / Geely / etc. out. That does reduce a theoretic future force that would reduce prices, but: IMHO,…

The dude who got shot deserved it, and the shooter seems to have a very good case for self-defense.

Kudos also to the friend who came to the victim’s defense. Takes a lotta heart to stab someone who is a lot bigger than you and already beating on someone. But it’s a pretty classic “defense of others” situation, on…

Unlabeled bottles in a *scale-up* lab? Yikes. Both the QC guy and the EH&S guy should be unhappy about that.

Yup, that.

The soap struck me as the riskier thing. (For context, I’ve had responsibility for GMP drug and device manufacturing in previous lives.) The interaction of a surfactant and/or solvent with a rubber or polymer seal might degrade the seal. Depending on what the seal is made of, and what specifically is in the soap.…

I agree with you there. Tying the deduction to GVWR is an outdated rule. I get why it made sense in 1986, when the only things you could buy with that GVWR were cutaways and box trucks. But it’s just silly in a world of G-Wagens and Escalades and $110k King Ranch duallies.

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For a lot of people, the trips where we’re towing or hauling are the longest drives we do. If you’re going to be in the truck for 20 hours of your week-long vacation, or repeatedly hauling building materials to the rural property that you’re building that’s a hour away from the nearest lumber yard, it makes some sense…

Yes, there is a lot of sketchiness to Tesla, but where crash safety is concerned, all the prior models got a 5-star rating when NHTSA or NCAP did independent crash testing. Credit where credit is due - there are some engineers that worked really hard on that.

Yes, that’s what I said. Tesla did the test, filed the results, and NHTSA is declining to do an independent re-test for now. The clickbaity headline implies that the CT hasn’t been crash tested by anyone at all, which the video in the article itself shows isn’t true.

It might be possible to see the test results by…