I’ve never seen a business so intent on deliberately alienating its consumers as legacy Gawker media. First Kinja, then killing Deadspin, now whatever parade of horribles their unreadable ad- and slideshow-bloated websites now display. This shit in 2020 makes me long for the days of Netscape frames and Geocities flash…

Related: for every automatic transmission that allows the driver to switch between gears, I’d much prefer to have a manual gear shifter than switches on the AT shifter or paddles behind the steering wheel. 80% of the delight of a manual transmission is that physical motion of moving a shifter nob through the gates.

Look on the bright side: for only $63,000, you can finally buy a Dodge Challenger a driver can see out of.

Why why why did Ford have to pair the manual with the weaker engine?

NASCAR’s ratings have been down for years now... in addition to bad politics, the latter problem it’s recently shown interest in trying to change.

... and they seem to be the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the United States, because they are.

Easy way for Ford to get international credibility: OEM gun mounts for technicals.

That, and a lot of people who would otherwise do foreign travel (or even domestic air travel) are just getting in their cars and trucks trying to find someplace to go.  If you can’t go to another city and enjoy their hotels, restaurants, bars, music venues, and theaters, you’re pretty much left with the great outdoors.

This is a seriously important and neglected point. Somewhere along the way, OEMs lost sight of this.

I’m needlessly unsettled by the assertion that a speech made about the inhuman evils of slavery is remotely applicable to the experiences of African-Americans today. Yes, things are not good, but they are better— self-evidently better, even from decades ago, let alone approaching 200 years ago. Douglass’ words are…

I was today year’s old when I learned that it’s nearly *10,000* feet at the South Pole.  No wonder it sucks so much there.

Gee, wait until Honda discovers how the United States government treats speech it doesn’t agree with, it’ll never sell cars in the U.S. again!

Some things, like racial injustice, are worth dying killing for.

VICTORY AUTOWRECKERS!!!

Meanwhile, Ducati continues to miss the opportunity to market its line of Ball Warming Scramblers ;-).

Yupppp... same logic for me ruled out the Alltrack and Sportwagen, they just couldn’t figure out how to combine the best of both worlds and give us an R. wagon.

I like Harleys. This bike is fine for what it is— it may not be for me or you, but there is a happy rider who enjoys this layout of a bike. Given the unending glut of used Harleys in America, however, a *1998* Sportster even in great, albeit modified, condition is worth at most $3500-$4500 judging by Cycletrader…

My brother owned a second-gen SSR. That thing was one of the most fun vehicles I’ve ever enjoyed tooling around southern California. A convertible V8 pickup at the beach? What’s not to love?

Sorry to hear (?) that. I started riding late enough in life to protect my hearing from the start, it makes all the difference in the world (And I now wear earplugs to indoor concerts as well, for the same reason— I was amazed at how earplugs improve any club concert into a hi-fi personal rock session).

But do you wear earplugs?