In essence, it’s basically equivalent to a “pace car” version, so yeah it’s not going to have a bunch of go-fast stuffed in it. It does look slick as hell, though, and would work well as the typical Toyota-style “S” version of their econoboxes, right—add a slightly stiffer suspension, some wheel-well flash, a bit of…

I can’t be the only one who’s curious about the size of the golden parachute in her contract. There’s no way she’s stupid enough to be associated with this guy without some serious, serious insurance.

Despite this being a hypothetical example, this illustrates the real-world challenges posed by AI-powered capability

“Chevy conversion” is meaningless without a reference or photos of whatever was converted. Lazy seller = lazy maintainer = trouble top to bottom. ND at anything over five hundred bucks.

Cost, lack of sufficient infrastructure, inability to repair it myself, and range/“refueling time” for the objective reasons. No manual option, no way to buy one without interior screens, and I dislike their appearance for the subjective ones. I’ve been driving manuals for so long that being required to “drive” a vehic…

Might want to take a look at a 2014-2016 CX-5 Sport. Not too hard to find near 100k miles in that price range and ticks most of the boxes, other than maybe the “good in snow” since they’re FWD instead of AWD.

It’s not just Boomers, it’s a lot of younger Founding-Father-Constitutional-Originalist wackos as well. Taking on the stylistic and linguistic particulars of documents from the mid-1700s is their form of worship, apparently.

Don’t see a lot of shouts for the ‘68 with Chevelles and El Caminos—usually it’s the ‘69 or the ‘70, sometimes the ‘67 or ‘65.

If I were being paid $500 an hour to argue over what contract terminology actually meant, my contracts would be as difficult to read and impenetrable as I could make them.

Well, this isn’t the solution I was hoping for, and it’s far more expensive than it’s worth, so Netflix’s play to get three new subscribers is going to end up losing them one permanently. If their “extra login” had been $2-3 a month each I’d have taken it. Eight bucks a month is basically another subscription. Bye…

1973 MG Midget—not this one, but it looked exactly like it. Also the car that introduced me to wrenching, and as I recall I spent far more time on the latter than the former. To this day I can still remember how the interior smelled—not nasty, but that specific combination of plastic and leather and metal that…

Nice to see Rudy’s lawyers are as good as he is. Ted here insisting on calling hearsay, allegations, and “claims” facts is just about par for the course.

If that initial 2 were a 1 this might be worth a second look, but 22 large for one of the worst engines GM ever produced wheezing along in this wallowing forgettable-design-and-unfortunate-choices brick? Nah.

It’s in the alt-image text for https://xkcd.com/1357/:

One zero too many on the price. Also, anyone got the number of the seller’s dealer? They’re clearly selling the good stuff.

Toyota Tercel. Bought the base model (no a/c, no radio, no power anything, not even a passenger-side rearview) for MSRP in late ‘91, which was around 7 grand at the time—comes out to ~$15k today. Most reliable, dependable, and predictable vehicle I’ve ever owned. When it came to amenities and frills, there were none,…

It’s just another example of the way they misuse language to appeal to the red-meat base who are nearly totally devoid of critical-thinking or second-order-logic skills. The syntax carries the baseline assumption that the speaker is correct, always knows what the right answer is, and never has to explain it or justify…

The GRX from Speed Racer—a car so fast you actually had to be jacked up on meth to be able to handle it. Sweet engine note, too.

Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug. It’s one of the more expensive ones, too, come to think of it.

Exactly. Their takeaway isn’t, “We need to stop lying.” Their takeaway is, “We need to stop writing down that we’re lying.”