I take exception to the “cop cosplayer” allegations. Sure, some buyers will be cosplayers, but I like a big V8 RWD American sedan, and cop cars are a good way to get a lot of hardware at a good price. I just like the cars, I have no desire to pretend I’m a cop.

That is the second totally insane thing I’ve learned today!

It definitely cost dealers a bunch. Probably didn’t save the consumers a penny; the manufacturers pocketed the extra profit, which was shared between their execs and investors. If dealers weren’t scammy, I’d feel bad for them. And I do feel bad for the ones who aren’t scammy, but there are damn few of those, so I…

Absolutely right. There are a lot of serious crimes that aren’t punished the way they should be. And there are far too many people getting framed/railroaded/overcharged/over-sentenced/incompetently represented /etc and being punished for things that they didn’t do. Let’s fix all of those things, and let’s also make a…

I can’t address what other folks do with their free bread, but rest assured, at my table the basket goes back empty. At the right place, I would absolutely pay $15 for a bread course. I can think of two places that I’ve asked to buy a loaf to go! (yes, they sold it to me, and it was a lot less than $15)

My father-in-law, who is 80, often requests a glass of ice water, several lemon wedges, and sugar at restaurants.  Sometimes the server tells him that lemonade is a menu item and he should just order one.

I’d like to see BMW come up with a cruiser that looks good without aping HD, and IIRC, IMO, they haven’t.  But this time it looks like they did a damn good job of aping a HD, which many others have tried and failed.  I think a BMW opposed twin needs to always have quiet mufflers, though.  

I thought I recalled the rear roofline being less awkward than this.  Oh well, NP anyway.

This is perfect! The color, the trim, the plaid cloth seats, the normal wheels, the modern-but-not-insane power. If it were built for me, maybe I’d ask to downgrade to a ~3L straight 6 with a couple of turbos.

I have a few things I need to get to sometime soon. Like a brake fluid change. I bet most of the people who pay to get it done probably end up with fresh fluid put in the reservoir and the rest is left as-is (IOW, ripped off), and most people just don’t get it done at all. I’m overdue. Trans fluid in my wife’s car is…

If you’re near Westchester County NY or Fairfield County CT, can I be your friend?

My wife recently shut the garage door when her car was about 1/16" too close to it.  Please tell me more about this!

Yeah, the trick is, marry a woman successful enough that she’d have to pay _you_ in a divorce. I’m still married to her after almost 21 years...

They forgot to charge him with indecent exposure!

IDK how I always miss the QOTD that I might have an answer for, and always see the ones I don’t.

$33K now.  The original owner is nuts, and the eventual buyer is probably nuttier!

This is a profoundly refreshing display of class.

A Crumbl opened near us recently, and my wife got 4 cookies. I don’t recall exactly what all the flavors were, and their useless website just says the flavors change weekly, so I can’t get my memory refreshed. SMH. Anyway, our choices were limited to what wasn’t already sold out, so we missed out on a couple of our…

That top image was on my wall when I was a teen.

Y’know what else is better than FWD with snow tires? RWD with snow tires! I have a 2018 GTI SE (so it has the limited slip diff) and previously had an E46 330 (which only had the brake-based traction aid). Admittedly the BMW had more aggressive (looking) snow tires than I have on the GTI, but I’d take the BMW vs the…