Indigo—those colors you named are too light (lilac and lavender) or too red (fuchsia). That interior is nearly blue, and there are far too few blue interiors these days; bless Hyundai for giving us some on the cheap.

Did the end of WWII and the MAD of the Cold War not show us that we can’t keep fighting each other with evermore advanced weapons? When you’ve got something strong enough that it can end tens of thousands of lives without even hitting its intended target, how can you argue that what’s needed is more offensive…

I can’t be the only one to think that this is actually not a good design; the proportions are terrible. It’s a shame, because the idea is fantastic, and so few things are genuinely bespoke anymore—and also not SUV caricatures of luxury—that for the execution to be so poor is a real shame. Also, its butt is smiling at…

I dunno. My ‘06 Forester, when the cruise control wasn’t working, would often find itself doing 90-ish on trips down to Boston without really meaning to. Lazy foot wants to be flat to the floor, maybe.

I’m sure it’s been mentioned by others in this long comment thread, but let me just say it again. About 30 miles south of the NK-SK border is a city of about 10 million people, centered in the middle of a metropolis of about 25 million. Within days, maybe hours of the start of conflict with the North, hundreds of…

Do they slow down to genuinely about 4 miles per hour for even the most modest turn? Do they not start their turn signal until they’ve already started turning? Do they not let you into their lane when you’re holding up traffic behind because...I don’t know, a reason? Do they pass you when you’re already doing 75 (in…

Has no one heard the idiom “drinking the Kool-Aid”? Jonestown? Anyone?

What a surprise.

Dragon fruit.

Construction for viaducts and fixing grade crossings is making progress along the IOS. Fingers crossed that funding will still be around long enough to do the whole LA-SF build-out.

Where’s a graphic of the Kool-Aid Man with the words “free market” plastered on his chest when you need it?

Post-refresh Genesis Coupe 3.8 is pretty damn awesome. Camaro’s V6 is nice, too.

Honestly? Hyundai.

World’s 4th or 5th biggest automotive company, been producing automobiles for many decades, sitting on piles of cash amounting to many billions of dollars, and yet there seems to be no real ambition in the company to do more than make appliances.

Not sure why we’re all hung up on the idea of changing one’s “self”. If there’s anything we all ought to know, it’s that the idea of a static self which doesn’t change is almost totally illusory. We may feel that there are core bits of ourself whose interactions produce outcomes which are uniquely formational of the…

I don’t want to start a whole thing, but even though I know I risk it, I worked a double last night and I don’t care.

Think about what bin Laden did that made him so deplorable: he organized the torture deaths of many, many people around the world. If death and killing are what’s bad, then why is our killing him a good…

Question, though: does the fact that the Lexus puts on airs about being something good not, paradoxically, make it more repugnant? Honesty is, after all, an admirable quality.

Thanks for typing all that up! I’m fascinated by engines and their multitudinous complexities, but I'm too lazy to do the kind of disciplined digging you seem to. It's these physically-minute changes, paired with the immense real-world changes they bring, that has me absolutely addicted to cars at this point,…

So is port injection still ultimately the way to go from an emissions standpoint? Is the difference between port injection and direct injection significant enough that the potential for direct injection to reduce fuel consumption relative to port injection is negated when measuring emissions? I'm curious about these…

Tell that to old SsangYongs.

The second s isn't redundant. In Korean, SsangYong means Two Dragons, with "ssang" meaning two, and "yong" meaning dragon. Do a bit of research, mate.