Oh boy, another excuse to bash Evans. Here’s a comment my wife made during the show: “If they’re going to hire a man to lead the show, he should have a deeper voice than Sabine Schmitz. And be more manly than her too.”

The information about the writing staff reductions, nepotism and resulting poor scripts somehow seems…

Maybe someday, but we’re nowhere near as biotechnologically sophisticated as we would have to be to accomplish that. Maybe 30 years from now, but that would be hopelessly optimistic.

That’s exactly what anyone with a fatal illness is looking for when they sign up for clinical trials. They’re willing to risk death for anything that will stop the disease. Because if you don’t stop it, you still die.

I’m still waiting for Chris Harris on Top Gear, to be the Chris Harris we know. I’m not exactly “disappointed” in him, I just feel his reviews of vehicles so far has been more formulaic than his interweb writing and shows. I don’t blame Harris, I blame the producers, who just couldn’t get anything completely right.

People who decry “diversity” are racists. Pure and simple. As if white and male is the norm, and any divergence from that means that anyone not white and male, is less qualified.

When it comes to TV hosts, there are no qualifications. Seriously, producers can literally put anyone in the lead role of any TV series. In…

An electric Atom would be hilariously awesome.

This isn’t science fiction. We don’t have “knock out” non-deadly force weapons. Stun grenades don’t actually stun, they just surprise. Tazers are too frequently ineffective, and to work properly probes have to penetrate the skin.

National Flood Insurance will step in briefly, but there will be no insurance that will cover floods on property that is underwater, and they’ll cut insurance off LONG before then.

What will be far more likely is that the area will be declared a “disaster area”, and the population will be evacuated permanently.…

We have some great twisty roads in So Cal. When you can get to them because of the always ridiculous traffic in LA.

But on camera, our roads all have the same beige/brown look to them.

It would be fun if they did a mashup with Jay Leno’s Garage.

First Gear: Any projection based on Brexit will have a huge margin of error. Just currency valuation variables alone could affect that 1.7 percent projected loss and make it swing by a full percentage point or more.

1. Sabine Schmitz. She’s hilarious, communicates her joy of driving superbly, and she’s just a little bit mean at just the right times. Her R8 review/drive was one of the show’s top highlights. Also her ranch on Extra Gear was amazing.

You’re absolutely right. The old white guy had no place on the screen with Sabine, Chris Harris, Rory and Joey. All of them were made of much tougher stuff, and could actually do justice to the cars they drove.

Here’s the order of events as I see them:
1. Never before seen coastal flooding event occurs to expensive real estate along the coast, costing billions of dollars. Millions more must be spent to dredge up silt and replenish the beaches. Insurance claims are paid out.

2. Rare coastal flooding event becomes regular…

I kind of think the average car has always been too expensive for the average person or family.

As a theoretical proof, the used car market has always been far far larger, than the new car market.

In the first part where you talk about Cadillac not being Cadillac anymore, it’s not GM’s fault. The new rich people who wanted to demonstrate wealth and brag about their car’s performance and handling, stopped buying Cadillacs. And started buying Mercedes and BMWs.

What you really have to ask, is why Bentley bothers…

Second thought on this. I don’t know about what I consider “northern forests”. Was it ever settled whether dinosaurs were endothermic or exothermic?

Also, wasn’t the world one big humid jungle back in the supercontinent days? Was there even a northern ice cap then?

Yep. Even just a drive across Los Angeles from the Westside is unpleasant, and something I dislike enough that I now take the Expo rail line if it’s going near where I’m headed. Most of the time it is not, as I generally travel North/South, which has no mass transit line anywhere in the LA area yet except the line…

It’s been many years since I’ve done any programming, last in Python which I really enjoyed. Because it’s a scripping language with decent programming functionality. I worked in visual effects.

Yeah, but for that to be true, part of your trip each way would have to go downhill.

Now I’m mad to hear those things existed. They didn’t at my college.