I got a chance to ride a 1200cc pushrod Buell with the souped up Sportster engine. As a tall person, it was matched in comfort only by the Triumph Sprint RS. It was also the best handling motorcycle I have ridden in my life. The lack of top end horsepower didn’t bother me, and I loved the low end torque.

Texas has too much invested in private prisons and the “delivery quotas” therein to keep them afloat, to legalize weed.

Not really a fair comparison. I see people smoking a doob and then taking on a skate park all the time in Venice Beach, and the same thing happens with snowboarders. Pot is not alcohol.

It seems a third of the Christmas tragedies could have been avoided with wrist guards and elbow pads.

That Veyron buyer is Exhibit A in “why taxes need to be raised on the super wealthy”.

I don’t know about too many other areas, but the cars can stay entirely within SoCal. They go from La Jolla to San Diego to Ocean Beach in the south; from Newport and Laguna Beaches, to Huntington Beach to Westminster to Cypress; and from Beverly Hills and Bel Aire to Brentwood, Santa Monica and Encino, to Cheviot…

27 deaths out of 3 million cars is not statistically significant, and there would be a far larger number of people killed in other kinds of crashes in that model. It took a very special set of circumstances to make a Pinto blow up in a rear end collision.

A friend of mine had a Pinto in high school, which his dad bought for him new. He had a lot of fun in that car. Lowered a little and with grippy tires, it was a decent handling car (considering it had a live axle).

I think we may be the only Outback owners without a dog. We don’t need AWD, but some day we might, and the Outback with AWD gets better fuel economy than almost anything else with just FWD.

I don’t really know if the knock on electronic steering is entirely justified. When I got my Focus ST, the steering felt numb, for about 500 miles. And then I could feel it. I guess my internal “feel” recalibrated for it.

Do Jalopniks even realize this is a legendary Cord Model 812. Hidden headlights in 1936, 35 years before they started gaining popularity in the 1960s. Electronically controlled automatic transmission. So low to the ground, it didn’t need running boards. It also had front wheel drive and a supercharged option that…

Bernie Sanders. And he’s not a sexist, racist, plutocratic asshole.

We bought an Outback. They are kind of boring. And the CVT is strange, but not like other CVTs we’ve used. We have the regular 4 banger, which only puts out around 180 horsepower, and the CVT (which faux switches gears like a regular transmission, but does the CVT thing within its “gear”) puts the car in optimal…

Yeah, they’re going to have to do something about speed limits, which are calibrated to people driving slightly faster.

But if they programmed those things right, they would stay right except when passing.

Some day he’ll do those drunken rants from the passenger seat of his autonomous car while stuck in traffic.

Not if the car behind you is autonomous and follows at a safe distance. It would brake when you brake.

Definitely ahead of its time. The car itself was fine, but the infrastructure for it was behind the times. You had powerful batteries with inadequate safeguards for careless mechanics, who needed special training for its power system, servicing its electric brakes, and its electric power steering.

Also, while claimed…

The hard drive for autonomous cars is coming from California. Which failed to build the roads for an immensely increased population (demographic predictions from the 1950s showed a need for at least 6 more freeways in SoCal than were built, and those demographic predictions were exceeded).

This is a job for the United Galactic Sanitation Patrol