It’s also a 2+2.

So, American sheet Nazis hate European-style bedmaking? If you leave the US, you only stay at places that feature FREEDOM bedding?

Capitalized cost reduction or “down payment” is frequently part of advertised lease deals, especially low-monthly-rate teasers like the $199/mo specials. It lowers the monthly rate but not the total, so either way this example seems misleading, although the disclosure might be on a web site or the bottom of a poster…

Back in 2011 a truck drove nearly 40 mi along the Pennsylvania Turnpike with a slow leak of asphalt driveway sealant and disabled several hundred cars—it was night so it couldn’t be seen, otoh there was less traffic than during the day and “only” 4 possible entry points affected. After receiving multiple calls the…

Even with padding there’s considerable stress just from a 30lb weight on the end of your arm hitting something solid, and that was a 3-core concrete block, not a 2-core which weighs less and has less structural support on the long sides (which matters less in typical use stacked on top of each other).

May as well make use of the keys as long as the ‘rents let you have them, Alex.

Or Chevy.

It’s always a good question when a controlled substance gets introduced into a different manufacturing chain. It seems like it would have to be a supplier of other pharmaceuticals like vitamin supplements. It’s a sedative, and calling it a “euthanasia drug” is clickbait; it could with equal or greater accuracy be…

In SW Pennsylvania my crocuses have been sprouting in January and blooming by late February or the first week in March for what seems like a decade now; narcissus and daffodils are not far behind. That’s weeks earlier than they did when I was a child. Even though there are periodic dips as low as sub-zero and snows in…

Besides the angle and brightness of lighting, we also don’t know the color temperature/type of lighting or the type of sensor recording the image. And Essential has stated that one reason Ocean Depths was not introduced on time was difficulty in achieving sample consistency in manufacturing, so I hazard a guess that…

For one thing, fuel taxes are ostensibly earmarked only for transportation projects (although they are sometimes raided for other things), which is road building and repair in most states but also includes airport improvements, and in coastal and some riparian states, port improvements; while general taxes require…

I love how conservatives always want things indexed to inflation or some other increasing index when it puts money in their pockets, but not when it takes money out.

Ah, the ultrasonic remote. I remember as a tot in the mid-60s once being taken by my mother to the house of a friend who had just bought a 25-in (!) color console TV to watch a demonstration of this sorcery. Our B&W console didn’t even have a UHF tuner, and my parents finally bought a 19-in “portable” color TV (still…

1984 was only a decade after CT scanning was first introduced; tests were still expensive and rarely available outside of the largest urban hospitals, so it makes sense that it has become more common for less critical conditions three decades later. Neal Stephenson in his Baroque Cycle novels brought up the oddity…

Why does it have a moonroof? Is it supposed to be an escape hatch, or is it part of being a car you can use in your daily life and track on weekends?

“sales fell and the number of dealerships edged up”

88hp from 1.8l was well within the competitive standard; a Mazda 2.0l made 83 in the 626 and Honda’s 1.8l made 75 in the Accord. What I can’t understand is the slow 0-60 when the 626 ran in the low 12 sec, but the Accord auto was about the same as the Cavalier.

They were public and common shorthand in car magazines; A for midsize, B for full-size family, C for full-size luxury sedans, E for full-size luxury coupes. Briefly in the 1980s Pontiac even incorporated the platform letter in some models’ names to be more “European”—A6000, J2000, T1000—before realizing that the…

Wouldn’t the subway be below the ground water level anyway, regardless of how the surface water used to be arranged? Even underground parking garages in Manhattan would be inundated if they weren’t pumped out constantly, and the same is true of other estuarine cities.

Now that most dealerships are part of large regional groups with multiple brands and multiple locations, do you experience much difference in behavior between brands or locations with common ownership? Should I expect different behavior from Cxxxxxn Subaru and Cxxxxxn Mazda that are across the street from each other?…