You’ve identified the key point here. There is this neat trick in discourse around race issues (in America, at least...I have no expertise to speak on other nations) where racist actions/attitudes/polices are denied to exist until the moment when they can no longer be hidden or denied, but at that moment they are…

Andrew, first of all, appreciate the frank admission up front that you guys have demands to meet and you’re doing your best to meet them. We get that you all are doing the best you can to produce good stuff for us to read.

Which is why you’ll find these festooned with “baby on board” decals but the baby is wearing a hoodie or the baby is Yoda because the baby isn’t just a normal baby, it’s a hip and cool baby. 

Yup. The Aztek was a decade or so ahead of its time, and everyone shat all over it (including me). It was a terrible prophecy of a dark, shitty future, but prophetic it was.

It looks like an ugly Camry. And the Camry is already ass ugly. 

I have test-driven so many old manuals that obviously had worn clutches or synchros that were on the way out, and the sellers would never admit anything was wrong with their car. One guy told me I obviously just didn’t know how to drive a stick. 

I’m sure that a desire to keep the company “Japanese” was part of the driver, but I would imagine resources/power was another big driver. The top levels of management at Nissan would presumably lose power, have budgets reduced, etc., as Renault became more firmly entrenched (particularly as long as Ghosn was running…

I feel like everyone knows these cars are underpowered from the factory, so the proposal here seems to be to pay extra to get a car that’s been modded to have the power the platform should have had in the first place. But that comes with all the downsides and risks of boosting an engine.

Yeah, I had the opportunity to get to know Samira a little bit a few years back. She’s a genuinely nice person, and “effortless elegance” is a great way to describe her.

I like this a lot. The full side view has some slightly awkward proportions, but otherwise this is like a modern take on a 30s rat rod. I’m generally not drawn to the full murdered out look, but I think it fits the build here. 

Things like the silver trim on the tailgate and the a-pillar gauges not matching are the sort of things that give me pause on a project like this. A ton of time and effort put into this, without a doubt. Fumbling some easy, obvious thing s makes me wonder what else has been botched under the surface.

Honestly, I saw the header image and thought it was Trump’s current Official Media Liar. And the thought of Trump’s biggest media cheerleader dating his press secretary seemed like an appropriate step down the ladder into hell.

Same. My wife and I have discussed the possibility many times, but we’ve just never been able to find a place where the numbers make sense. 

And there you have what Anthro’s justification will be as more details come out. Of course they didn’t have code works *based on race or ethnicity*, they had code words for people suspected to steal, and if some biased bad apples just happened to disproportionately suspect Black customers as shoplifters, how was…

only place it makes sense, IMO, to own a boat is if you live on the water. My cousin lives on a lake, and they’re out on the water 3-5 days a week. Otherwise, there’s no way to use the boat often enough to make it worth the money/hassle (really, I think this is probably the case for most vacation homes and toys - you…

All of this. If their current garage is truly so narrow that the S2000 barely fits, there isn’t going to be a magical vehicle that can tow 6-7k and also is ~70” wide (and that’s ignoring the desire for additional passenger capacity).

I think it’s an issue of implementation. I had a rental Pacifica with auto start/stop and it shuddered at every stop and shuttered/hesitated at every start. It was extremely noticeable both as a driver and a passenger. On the other hand, In my experience, BMW’s implementation of it is completely seamless, to the point…

I had a 5-series from Hertz a few months back. It was RWD, but in a snowy climate. Seemed nicely equipped (leather, adjustable interior mood lighting, and so on). Also handled some slick snow reasonably well, considering that it didn’t have snow tires. If I were in the market for a car, I’d jump on one of those for…

It looks sort of like a bathtub with a windshield. 

That’s messed up. I am always a bit befuddled by the shenanigans that I hear about both buyers and sellers trying to pull. The process shouldn’t be so difficult if everyone would just act like normal, sane individuals.