Show you have class and get the silver stuff.  Aka Alabama Chrome

It’s as if a case of AXE body spray suddenly became a car.

Same here - native of the great, but cold and snowy and miserable half the year state of Maine. I have never even begun to get the appeal of AWD in a vehicle that is only used on normal roads. Costs more up front, costs more in gas, and heaven forbid any of it break. And I am going to have snow tires regardless,…

I was waiting for this reply. 928 phone dials.

I lived in Alabama and everyone wanted AWD to handle snow, just in case. It snows about every 5-10 years there and when it does, everything is closed until it melts so even if you can drive around there is no place to go. But “just in case”, a lot of AWD vehicles are sold down there.

If you look under it, large pieces of the think are surface rust coated simply because they said fuck it and didn’t paint things or half ass coated them. There is a lot more of the same theory lurking where you cant see it behind panels.

This story is at least 10 years late. I went to Germany in 1992 and it was stunning how small the cars were. I had a Golf sized car (Opel Astra) and it was huge compared to 75% of the cars I saw on the roads.

$1.50 BATD = $1.00 USD and holding steady, given my extensive analysis conducted weekly since lockdown started mid-March of 2020.

What’s the current conversion rate between BaT Dollars and US Dollars?

Minilites - or reasonable facsimiles thereof, such as Panasports.

Not sure if AMG counted as ‘production’ back then, but close enough for me.

Audi managed to design a station wagon 30 years ago with a drag co-efficient of just 0.30 without any fancy ‘air-channeling’ frippery.

Jason, your problem is that you’re American with tastes that skew toward the understated. You project yourself as sweet, quirky and intelligent. I’ve always assumed you moonlight in an alt-rock band that plays lots of ukulele heavy songs about tail light design.

Israel space laser...

Many years ago something similar happened in Montreal on the Metropolitain (a raised highway). The city was found guilty. Since, they make sure to clean the highway properly.

The front with all the unpainted black plastic make it look like a low budget car.

The design is an impressive melding of overwrought and generic. Being both simultaneously is no small feat.

Being okay with people suffering because they disagree with me politically goes against every thing in my moral compass.

In one of my rare posts without jokes, I just want to take a moment to say I’m happy Pete Buttigieg is actually looking at infrastructure in a reasonable way. (Preface: Strong Towns is a great book, and it’s also now a podcast series about urban planning, roads, development, etc. There are also some excellent Google…

Its a scam to lure back Chrysler so they can finish the job