The list is almost too long to answer. Born in ‘75, parents divorced in ‘77. By ~1980 or so, part of the weekly visitation routine with Dad was dinner and a movie, every Wednesday night.

Anything with a manual transmission is a problem in a city with attended parking garages.

With BMW, the only comfortable seats are the Sport seats. These have thick, adjustable bolsters, pull-out thigh support, and power-adjustable lumbar support.

Agreed. I suggest “AUTONERF”. Get caught cheating? All damage done reduced to 1/10th. Let them keep playing but constantly being made everyone’s punk because they’re doing to real damage.

Even missing all engine power, and minute big chunks of the wings and fuselage, even a 737 has a functional glide ratio. Hell, Aloha 243 was explosively turned into a convertible and still managed to save all souls except the flight attendant who was sucked out in the initial incident.

Nobody said “Crank Starting”, huh? Guess y’all got used to your fancy-fied electric starters and forgot it wasn’t always thus?

I love it when companies do this.

I have zero insight into how Tesla sets up the parameters for the FSD decision tree, but I’d be willing to make a bar bet that they are building the decision matrix using data from their conventional-drive customers.

Counterpoint: Without competition, GM would probably still be putting the damned Iron Duke into everything.

More significantly, you can’t subscribe to an insurance plan that covers basic on-the-road towing and use it to get dragged out of the desert. Even if all the AAA tows had been to people who were legit policy holders, that insurance still doesn’t cover off-road recovery.

That’s.... not how crime works.

Sounds like the owner of the $2000 BMW got what they paid for.

So much this. “Owen Bellwood” will now forever be known as “the person who confused the name of a sword for a slice of meat”.

Agreed. Wasn’t it the first running at COTA when the sticky tires were yanking up the asphalt in some places?

Find me a PLB or EPIRB made in the last 5 years that doesn’t have GPS built-in, and I’ll cop to mansplaining.  Until then, you’re just a pedant.

Yes, but... all modern PLBs and EPIRBs are generally equipped with a GPS receiver and send the current coordinates along with every message.

Or until it rains again.  Like it just did to cause this whole thing.

I have a Gear Wrench passthrough set that I pretty much bought for one job. As you say, there are a few jobs when it is absolutely crucial.

Yeah, the Wheelers. They were creepy by themselves, with the masks on the top of their heads so they looked all freaky when their heads were down, but I think I was just as equally traumatized by whichever character was reacting to them. I can still hear “Oh no, a wheeler!” in my head 35+ years later, having only seen…

Very sexy, but it'll be over the Taco's GVWR before you even put gas in the tank.