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I’m a lot less interested in pole/pole or winner/winner comparisons. We know Lewis Hamilton is faster than IndyCar drivers, but he’s faster than most F1 drivers too. I’m a lot more interested in median/median comparisons, or showing where the IndyCar winner would have qualified/finished in the F1 field. Still wouldn’t…

This car was the Toyota Highlander before the Highlander was the Highlander. In fact, new Highlanders come from the factory with a Camry dent, as a subtle homage to the car’s heritage.

I dunno, seems to me if you’re looking for a European sport sedan, you can hardly do better than one that says “Eurosport” RIGHT THERE ON THE SIDE! Some people are just impossible to please.

The email address listed on the Complaint is [somedude] @earthlink.net. Not exactly quinn emanuel. Makes me long (*ever* so briefly) for the heyday of Above The Law.

As have I, and my point is that a good advocate (who wants a higher value assigned) can bring comps and make a good case that KBB is not the final word for this kind of car even if it is generally accepted as authoritative with respect to mass-market cars with 10x the transaction volume.

Which makes me wonder if (a) other carriers keeping the Max in service are doing the same, and (b) other crews who experience MCAS faults, and successfully recover, are reporting it to Boeing/NTSB/other authorities?

I used to DD a 2013 GT and I miss it terribly. And I agree that the Mustang handles much better than it often gets credit for. But the skidpad number doesn’t really end the discussion. It’s a big, heavy car and it drives like one. A smaller, shorter car (even the GTI I replaced mine with) is easier to handle, easier…

Courts use KBB value because nobody wants to hire professional appraisers to figure out the value of a 2013 Silverado with 75,000 miles, and for the cars usually at issue in a divorce, the market is big enough for KBB to be pretty accurate. For something like this, something like BaT would be a more accurate valuation…

Yep, this. I was an early adopter of self-scan when it first started showing up in the early 2000s but I use it less and less now. In my subjective observation, the machines have become glitchier and less reliable than they used to be. At my local Meijer, for example, the scanner elements have this weird tendency to…

Other than roads, sanitation, schools, culture, and we haven’t got sh-- all over us? NOTHING!!!

Or just use the foreign currency to pay your hotel tab (less any reserve for remaining tips) on your way out, before paying the balance by credit card. Not really that hard.

So no track use, then, even for those Polestar versions that Volvo occasionally purports to be competitors in the ///M, AMG, etc. segment? Or will you be able to ECU-flash around it? 112 is stupid fast on most public roads but not on plenty of amateur road courses.

YES SO MUCH THIS. You can use a comma after the conjunction. But you shouldn’t.

Reason number 17 or so why Southwest remains my favorite domestic carrier. None of this “sorry, you are a Zinc-status customer, and window seats are for those guests of Copper or higher status, but good news! apply for our credit card and you will be upgraded to Chromium Preferred for one year, which lets you book an…

After his 27-part series, “My Decision to Purchase a Fiesta ST,” he felt that he had accomplished all that he could in the automotive space and needed to move elsewhere for creative growth.

I’m still on V (don’t have a computer that can run VI) but I’ve been playing this franchise for decades, and I remember 2 having a version of this mechanic. You had flexibility in which spaceship components to build, so you could go for earliest launch, shortest flight time, highest capacity (for more points), and…

I’m not too certain of that. Cohen once sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Onion.

Condensed cream-of-mushroom soup is the glue that holds boring Middle American food together (including, yes, a recipe that has been a staple of mine since childhood).

Yes. This is my tepid defense of Dana Perino as well. Many of the things I cook in my Crock-Pot (e.g., split-pea soup) look pretty nasty until I give it a good stir, for just this reason. Most things, even.