I’m going to call CP on it. For $13,000 I can buy a car isn’t burnt to a crisp...or apparently even a Chevy Spark....which normally I wouldn’t give the time of day to, but if the choice is between burnt wreckage, or a Spark, well suddenly the igniting process namesake looks like a pretty good damn choice.

That scene was very corny.

They used to outsource their seat/interior production to a company called Faurecia, which I worked for for 5 years. During my time working there, I got to have a tour of the actual Rolls Royce factory. It was a really eerie place and it is indeed very quiet. The cars are also stupidly quiet when the engine is running.…

Ferrari interiors are installed on a moving line also. All custom options are pre-packaged and travel along in a be to box next to the car. If I remember correctly, their system was virtually silent.

Regarding your last point:

When each car sells for over $200,000 (I think?), a company can afford to take a few extra steps for quality. Other companies wish they could be so meticulous, but in the non-luxury world the margins are much thinner so costs have to be cut wherever they can be.

Accordion to who?

Of course it was Philly. Can we disown that city?

2 or 3 wrenches and it could have been a permanent fix.

.... Those are the tail lights....

You know what? Screw it, I love it. The world needs cars designed less by silly notions like aerodynamics and crash safety standards, and more moxy and because-I-can attitude. Also, it’s called a crunk. That adds at least a few jalop points in my book.

It’s a bit unsettling. So much of the national narrative around Dick Cheney has centered on him as an unfeeling, heartless, Machiavellian archetype. Weird to see him and the rest of the leadership looking both so lost and so human. Kind of a reminder that, despite partisan discord and the political lenses we put these…

Next week: Ballaban pees on the guy.

Ballaban: TEN TEN TEN TEN TEN. Funny, concise, clever without appearing too scripted.

My wife caught me watching the Ballaban clip and this was our exchange:

oh no they are special alright! especially when they have the 160hp vtec motor. But the most special one we never got here and thats the one with the robot roof.

I like it. It is almost as good as the recent Mazda one.

They really thought outside the box on this one.

Yes, have to have union representation. Driving up your manufacturing costs is always good for business.

I’d take it! I nominated it.