Honestly, I agree with #2. I mostly liked the new characters even though they were handled poorly the longer their stories went on. If someone had a new story to tell involving any or all of them and it wasn’t just them fighting the Empire AGAIN, I could be interested.

I absolutely believe that there are. This is Star Wars to them, not the prequels, not the originals, but these. The sequel trilogy, Rebels, Clone Wars, Mandalorian, Book of Boba Fett, etc. This is what’s marketed towards them the same way that the original trilogy was marketed towards GenXers when they were kids.

This is a bad idea. You may not like these movies, and I’m not crazy about them, but there are people who enjoy them, and for a lot of the younger viewers they were their introduction to Star Wars. If Lucasfilm did a Legends-style retcon you’d only piss off those fans and create more schisms where none needed to exist.

BLAAAAAAAAAAA. Is what I have to say. And I sound like a total curmudgeon. I liked VII and VIII, then IX just ended in *SUCH* an uninteresting place! The First Order is... maybe defeated? The New Republic is still basically collapsed, but maybe it’s around? No more Sith, and now really there’s only one Jedi left, …

Nascar has never been a huge fan of Live Streaming.

There’s difference between qualifying and race lap records though. In qualifying the current cars are way faster, in the races not so much. Refueling has been banned since 2011, so the cars run giant heavy fuel loads.

Aside from that weight they can’t actually use full power all the way for fear of running out of…

While watching one of the recent F1 races Crofty made a good point. He said no matter how many rules you change the engineers never forget what they’ve learned and what has worked in the past, they just find new ways to implement it.

Let me address the common complaints, one by one.

A tried and true mechanic’s rule:
Anytime the key is inside the car and you’re not, leave the driver’s window down.

In 27 years of being a mechanic, I have never gotten locked out of my car or a customer car when I followed that rule.

I had a powerstroke F250 until about 2 weeks ago. I’m happy every day I don’t see it in my driveway! About half of the common known issues require the cab off. And mine broke down frequently for the entire time I owned it despite maintenance on time by the book, and never having any modifications - no tuners, not even…

I’ve been around a lot of gun nuts in my life. My first best friend’s dad had a basement that would could honestly called an Armory. I had an interest, but it never became a big thing in my life.

Yep. I have a set of snow tires on cheap steelies for my WRX. Makes winter much more pleasant. My brother in law from Michigan once asked me if all Canadians use steelies for snow tires. I started paying attention and it seems a lot of us do it even for more expensive cars. Nobody looks at you funny if you have a BMW…

Toyota sort of invented Just-In-Time inventory control and they’re dedicated to it. As a result, they do it better than almost anyone.

yeah, people always say ‘BUT SNOW TIRES ON 2WD ARE BETTER THAN AWD ON ALL SEASONS!’

Bicyclist here. I thought the apology was refreshing in an age of half assed “we’re sorry if we offended anyone” B.S. that passes for sincere nowadays.

Beats the newest thing in my immediate family by five years... but thankfully that one is also a Toyota, and has only 120k well-maintained and fairly gently driven miles on the clock, so (barring drunks and texters and other such random bad luck), we should be able to ride this one out with years to spare.

But profits. Sure, I mean, it’s bad for the global economy and whatever, but what about next quarter? THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS.

the point is to drive your car until there is not real difference in depreciation, and THEN buy another. After 10 years and 200k, most cars are at the bottom anyway.

Maybe we need a refresher on the true meaning of Christmas...

Our two DDs, Honda Fit hatch and Chevy Sonic hatch, are both pretty easy. “Unsnap” the glovebox door and it’s right there, with its own door that unsnaps and the cabin filter and/or holder slides right out and back in.