Some kind of regulation is needed on usury rates for car loans. But, it’s a tough issue, because in all likelihood it would just punish poor people even more since the shady dealers with 28% would just pack up shop, and there’d be nowhere you could get a loan with a car with a 480 credit score. Is a 28% loan to get…

Oh yeah, there’s the pile of sadness I knew you meant! 

Wrong Granada for sure. That’s the UK one. And the Mark 1 Granada in both sedan and coupe is a fantastic looking thing. 

Norris was unlucky that Ferrari found their footing. He might have had a shot at it, but with the Ferrari pace resurgence making them look equally quick as McLaren I don’t think he’ll pull it off. I’d love to see it though.

Hopefully they can fly off into the sky mouthfucking each other right before some QC issue causes the thing to spectacularly burst into flames and killing both of them.

Obviously specific to people with kids... but my new life hack now that I have to travel with a toddler is to pack all our stuff in carry-on size but check it all at the gate. We have to do it anyway for all the kid crap so it’s not an extra step. And in general, gate clerks are freaking thrilled to not have to deal…

I just can’t imagine what driving this thing hard is like. But man do I want to find out. But like, in a giant empty parking lot. Because I have a feeling I’d be going ass over frunk more than a few times... 

I’ve been casually perusing 2015/16 Lexus LS 460 AWD sedans. They’re pretty fantastic cars with an original sticker of somewhere around $80k. You can pick one up for $25-30k now pretty easy.

James May has been talking about this for a decade.

This all applies to a very specific group of truck buyers though - the people who don’t actually use their trucks.

Protege was a great car. Friend had a Protege wagon. Few mods to the suspension and it was just an absolute joy to drive. Light, chuckable, predictable. Nothing boring about it. He sold it, bought a Mazdaspeed Protege, was even more fun. 

Not sure about a lot of these. But, man, the Chevy Malibu sure is boring. Got them back to back as rentals and they are totally fine as a car. But my god they are anonymous. And once you rent one, you begin to see them everywhere. I lost mine in parking lots twice because suddenly, white Malibus were everywhere I…

Rockets.. psh. Boring!

So they gave up on the hilarious nuclear—bomb-powered-shock absorber-dampened Project Orion?

The no-wheels look is really dumb. It just makes it look like a vacuum cleaner. They should have gone for the white wheels of the Henry Dreyfuss designed Mercury locomotive.

I’m a little confused on the herniated back, moving kids, moving 2x4s, and moving pressure washer thing. If you can’t move your kid out of a car seat how can you move a pressure washer out of the bed of a pickup? My pressure washer is like 60 pounds. Modern truck beds are also super high now, so the problem is even…

Too many, really.

What is this, a cross over episode? (Speaking of dated references...).

At first I wasn’t sure the math was mathing here... $2.8 million total at 672 cars is an average of $41,600. But... passes the smell test at least.

None of this makes any sense to me. I guess the complaint is that the fridge you get with your car (a ridiculous thought to begin with frankly...) isn’t good enough. But just.. buy a real one and not these plastic fantastic useless ones.