I had a friend who had an early 2000s Explorer Sport with those. He said they worked most of the time, but would occasionally just... not. One time we went for a mountain bike ride, and spent a solid hour trying every 5 minutes or so to unlock the stupid thing, before it finally let us in.

Except that the Badlands trim supposedly can be had with a manual, and that comes with both lockers.

GOD DAMN IT.

I once commented on Jalopnik - and was excoriated by some dipshit who insisted that I had to be wrong - that I own two vehicles which:

1) Do not have an arrow
2) Do not have a release lever for the gas flap
3) Have the fuel gauge on the opposite side of the gauge cluster from the side that the tank is on

Counterpoint: grille still looks like shit.

Mid-front engine, RWD, Italian, 4 seat convertible, named after something in nature, that’s fast but built like shit, from 1990.

I feel like that should be doable, but I can’t figure out what it is.

To be fair, the submission just said he wanted to get to the mountains. Didn’t say anything about getting back.

Re: the Takata airbag thing, how long does it generally take for a car to show up in the NHTSA Recall checker? I’ve got a 1999 M3 that sounds like it could be impacted.

Hasty Flaming Buffalo sounds like what you get from one of those band name generators that uses your first initial, the month you were born, and the street name in your home address.

Ah yep, that one owns.

It’s a real testament to Vince’s awesomeness that I am both sure that that’s true, and am not at all sure which one you’re talking about, specifically.

I hate the grille way less than I do on the Silverado, but that’s not saying much.

The only correct response.

My girlfriend and I randomly went to a burlesque show last week, a few days before the Saints were in town to play the Seahawks. The guy who was the emcee, of sorts, asked a bunch of people where they were from/what they were doing in Seattle if they weren’t from here, etc. Two super drunk guys in the front were…

My default position is certainly to tell the Yankees to get fucked, but I don’t have anything snarky to say here.

Jesus god I had to look up who you were even talking about. That QB depth chart is grim.

Thank you. I love green. It’s my favorite color. I tried very hard to make my last vehicular purchase (a 2000/2001 Toyota Tacoma V6 4x4 manual) in the lovely green pictured below, before I caved and bought a (sigh) black one, because I couldn’t find a good one in green. I wish my 1999 M3 (also black) was Fern Green,…

I don’t remember that one, but it’s so plainly believable that I’m pretty sure I can gin up a fake memory and convince myself it did happen in about 10 minutes.

Holy shit those “TRD” and “PRO” badges under the headlights on the Tacoma are tacky.

If they sold the 70-Series troopie that Australia gets here, I’d be one of those ankle breakers rushing to buy one.