I have long maintained that one way to protect the U.S. Auto industry from foreign competition would be to prevent foreign manufacturers from naming their cars after God fearin’ U.S. Americun place names. Why does Hyundai get to name a car the “Hyundai Santa Fe?” It should have to be called the Hyudai Gwangju Province…

So I was playing around with the Honda build tool and if you choose to build a manual Sport Touring Civic hatch, every paint color is a $495 option. I don’t see how that’s not false advertising?

That’s not what you initially said. You said it was reasonable for him to assume he was either 1) being attacked by a rival gang or 2) being arrested.

Any time someone claims a car is “reliable as long as you stick to the maintenance schedule” you can be sure he’s talking about an unreliable POS that’s, nonetheless, a blast to drive when it’s not in the shop.

No, sorry. It’s disingenuous to discount the proliferation of guns in U.S. Society as a contributing factor. Cops are shooting unarmed people in many cases because they don’t know for certain whether the guy is armed or not but they’re “not taking any chances.” I’m not saying that’s necessarily a good jsutification…

the only reasonable reaction for him is to try to shoot the attackers and get the fuck away.

Does that mean you can’t make a profit when helping the environment.

Hmmmm... this gives me an idea:

Looks like a big rock went through your grill, taking big chunks out of it. I’ll give it an “A” for effort, but a “C-” for results.

Yeah, but the difference is that these guys are by far the more heavily armed individuals when interacting with the public.

Yup. Just ask Mike Lindell how well business is going. You can only sell so many overpriced pillows to people dropping $50 on MAGA and watching their Truth Social stock tank.

Falling apart or shedding weight (adding lightness as Colin Chapman would say)?

Five plainclothes officers from a tactical unit for a seatbelt violation? I doubt it. Probably this guy was under surveillance already and the seatbelt violation was just an excuse to bring him in for questioning. I suspect we’ll learn more about what went down and why in the coming days.

They’d all figure it out really quick if the Chinese began selling cars in the U.S. Watch what would happen when MG started selling nicely equipped, sub $20k compact cars that get you pretty much everything you might want with competitive build quality. I drove a rental MG in Cancun on vacation last year and it was…

Kudos to Lucid. There’s at least one I see driving around from time to time where I live and it’s a nice looking car.

Be sure to have plenty of buttered popcorn on hand.

Elon has said he thinks climate change is an issue, but it has been overexaggerated to become a mass extinction event.

Also you get that bullet proof Italian reliability that Alfa Romeo is famous for.

The Landmaster from Damnation Alley, a classic post-apocalyptic “B” movie from the 70's:

Boomers invented this nonsense, but Gen-X is taking the baton from them. Believe me... I see it on my Facebook feed daily.