The real money was the friends he made along the way. 

I recently saw one of these scams in the wild. A couple of months ago, I bought a 20-year-old Montero Sport. It needed all new brakes, and there is a part on the front brakes that can only be bought from Mitsubishi (or custom made). As such, the first place I looked was my local Mitsubishi dealer. Went on their…

“Guys in ‘69 Chargers drive sensibly because they’re rolling pieces of automotive history.”

You sure? Because I feel like new trucks are tall and wide enough to write the Communist Manifesto on without using too small a print. 

I don’t think I’ve seen a Trump 2024 sticker yet. I still see plenty of 2020 stickers, road and yard signs, even painted on a semi trailer some farmer parked on his property out by the interstate.

I really can’t think of a stock vehicle I feel this way about. The thing about the boring cars that you see everywhere is that they’re boring and you see them everywhere. They just sort of become background noise, and I don’t really notice them at all.

This does nothing to clean up the look of your car. All it does is make it so you don’t have to drill holes in the bumper. You still have a big, obvious rectangle in the middle of your bumper that is not at all coordinated with your paint color. 

Just get the new Corvette. Performance to match or best almost any used exotic in the price range. Common enough that people won’t really think anything of you if you aren’t driving around with a dozen other Corvettes. Likely much cheaper to keep on the road than anything else here because it’s not 30+ years old and…

Well, you technically didn't, so... 

1) If done correctly, EVs have several advantages over ICE vehicles. The Rivian is quite good off-road from everything I’ve read.

I really hope those vague renders don't accurately depict the direction they're going. At best the SUV looks like a mis-proportioned Range Rover, and the pickup just looks like it's really trying to ape the R1T. Neither of those designs are necessarily bad, but these vehicles need to have something unique, while also…

I have seen more of the ID.4 than any other EV not made by Tesla. Not sure where you get the idea that they are bigger than competing vehicles, though. The ID.4 is a fairly small CUV, and the dimensions are near identical to the Mach E and Ionic 5.

Easier said than done. Most companies will go to astounding lengths to not fire an individual. Even companies that have regular rounds of large layoffs. And trying to manipulate the situation will often just end up with you being branded as a malcontent.

2002 Montero Sport.

Somebody with the supply chain and manufacturing already in place needs to buy them. I want my goddamned cab-over (even if it’s not a TRUE cab-over)!

At my old job, her name was Karen. She’d submit security requests and then start IMing you within 5 minutes trying to get you to approve it sooner. If it wasn’t approved that day, you could bet that she’d either submit a duplicate request or email your manager about how you were holding up whatever project she was…

“Unfortunately that line we were fed as kids about ‘just doing good work and you’ll be rewarded’ isn’t remotely true.”

I don't know. The standard Caliber was a huge piece of shit. I would not put my money on more power making it more reliable. 

My mom adopted a dog last year that spent the first 2 years of her life in a cage, in a dark shed, with 70 other animals. Sounds to me like y'all need a Sprinter van if/when the wife gets back to it. 

I mean, I definitely understand them going for the meat of the market. But I have no desire to own any of the current EV offerings other than maybe the Rivian truck and the Ionic5. The former is way too pricey for me right now, and I’d probably have to repaint the latter so that it’s not pretending to be an SUV.