“Are you a 30-something hipster with parents who still won’t get off your case? Tell them that a Merc will make you more of an adult. Make them buy it for you. They’re the problem, not you.”

Any lawyer making a move on the homeowner is probably a 2-bit hack. The real money is in the public entity claim against the municipality for the unsafe road condition.

V8? Pffft.

Kind of BS considering you have a modified vehicle. “Your Honor, he’s never driven my car, he has no idea what a safe speed for that vehicle is. If I were in a Crown Vic, then we can chat, but there’s a lot of speculation going on here, and not by me.”

(Woops! Sorry, that wasn’t targeted at this thread. Not sure how it ended up here.)

“One extra car in front of you isn’t adding anything to your commute.”

In the aggregate, it is, because dickheads like this cause completely pointless accidents, which slow everyone down.

Sadly, probably not. There’s a reason she is hanging around with guys like this, and I doubt he just happened upon a street race while they were out on a date.

I’d actually be OK if Trump just forced California to restart the rolling 30-year Smog exemption and allowed legal import of some neat 1980's JDM cars, and left it at that.

But, hey, I’m just one guy.

Anecdotally, I have been told by some mechanic friends that work for a dealership that sells a certain brand of truck that is both produced in the US and Mexico, that you should always buy a Mexican truck over the US production truck.

Will it smog in CA?

Thank you for this language! I read the comment 5 minutes ago, and already got that comparison into email.

I think people wouldn’t be as ticket off if the tickets were somewhat commensurate with the crime. In CA a $75 ticket turns into $250-$300 pretty quick.

There’s a green one rolling around San Francisco.

Because the lens on the left is on the street side, so it spends more time in the sun, not blocked by buildings, hedges, etc.

If a culture of people are failing to wear their seatbelt, then eventually they, or the trait, will start to die out. We might be seeing the effects of that given that seatbelt usage is at a record-high 86%.

Here’s a family that is probably going to buckle up from here on out...well, what’s left of the family, anyway: h…

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Thank’s for the clarification. Seems so weird to engineer that out just to try to push customers up to higher trim levels. Seems indicative of an “F-the-customer” engineering and marketing attitude.

I’m not so sure about this. I vigorously examined (read: abused) one of these at an auto show recently, and I’m almost positive both sides folded flat.

The right-hand turns about 25 seconds in and about the 2:00 mark both seem to be pretty far from the curb. Not that regular drivers are very good at this, but I wonder how long until autonomous cars will get good at complying with CVC 22100.

Good engineering and high reliability aren’t always the same thing. For example, tight engine tolerances may yield high efficiency, but not reliability. This is certainly the case with Ferrari: awesome engineering, crap reliability.