that super low rev gobs of torque is wonderful

I know this isn’t very Jalop of me (brown manual diesel wagon and all), but why the F would anyone buy a diesel these days unless whatever country they are in heavily subsidized diesel fuel? If you want economical (and therefore you mostly drive with a light right foot), you can get a 1.5L turbo four engine that still…

Right, mice never, ever nest in car’s and eat their wires. Never! Or wasps, they never make nests inside mirror housings and the like.

Had 3 wasps nest in our 2011 Sienna after it sat there for 6+ months. It was not a fun time when I got ready to use it.

Look - one of my neighbors has two inoperable vehicles on their property. Random parts on and off the cars all the time. I don’t care. I wrench in my driveway. No one complains about it at all. No one complained when my 500 Abarth sat for 4 months, and I would never complain about a car here and there.

It hurts property values when a neighborhood looks junked up. As a homeowner, I would not want to live next to someone with a yard/driveway full of dead vehicles and car parts.   If you don’t have garage space, don’t get so many cars.

I agree with you in theory, but you’re not comparing like with like here. David doesn’t have a job or a young kid distracting him from this - this is his passion and his job and somehow it’s still gotten to this state. Also, 12 cars on your property, 5 of which don’t run (at the time the ordinance was issued), is on a…

Found the renter.

I work on my vehicles regularly and would have absolutely no problem with a couple non operative vehicles in an neighbor’s yard but when there are literally a dozen vehicles sitting there for 6 months to 2 year I start to worry about rats, wasps, and other vermin nesting in those 12 junk heaps and spreading to my…

Wait until you own property.

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Huh? We just spent the last couple of months talking about Iowa, of all fucking places. Hurricanes will begin in September, which means we’ll obsess over Louisiana and Alabama. October, we’ll be chattering incessantly about Michigan and Wisconsin. How are you “tired” of New York? At least it’s one big engine of our…

True. I was in NYC, I remember Rudy saying, “Oh, heeeyyyyy, how about we delay the Mayoral election for a while so I can stay on and guide us through this terrible-” and NYC interrupting to tell him to geddafukouttaheah.

Today I’m watching my first Gov. Cuomo press conference/update because of this article. Glad I have access to CBSN Boston here in Nebraska. That said, I am crushing on him hard right now. Get it, booboo. 

Not really. Giuliani was term-limited out of office two months after 9/11, replaced by Bloomberg. NYers really didn’t like him, it was the rest of the country that praised him. 

I think America fell for Rudy after 9/11 more than NYC. 

I gotta say, I never fell for Rudy after 9/11—I’ve always been baffled how the photo ops seemed to win people over—but I’m warming up to Cuomo and unlike Rebecca, I otherwise have an unreasonable dislike of the man. Actually, I think I’m being reasonable when I do.

You’re not the only person inspired by his press conferences:

I posted something similar about this somewhere else:

I think the automotive press calls the subaru CVTs as some of the best CVTs out there. I know that is not saying much about cvts.