Edge works pretty well on iOS for fixing this site, funny enough. And has its own built-in ad-blocker.

All of that is secondary to the inadequate methods available to secure a parked bicycle. That reason alone is why I don’t do my local shopping by bike; nowhere to tie it up.

This is basically a budget S5 Sportback that manages to lower the price without really giving up anything. It has style, it has performance, it has comfort, it has gadgets. Bravo, Kia.

The Kia also has that handy dandy rear hatch.

It’s the mirror stalks doing it in. They should have been elegant and waify, but instead they are these brutish trunks.

This is a small taste of what will happen on a much deeper scale across a broader set of industry if we continue to give China economic leverage. This is why you should pay the fuck attention to where your money goes and, where possible, avoid directing it to the Chinese machine. Fuck Tencent. Fuck Huawei. Fuck…

You and me both.

It’s not VW’s electronics that go poof, it’s water pumps, bearings, and ball joints. You get rid of one of these with an EV and the other two are problems on every car when you get enough mileage to begin worrying about it. Especially performance cars.

The revised version of Volvo’s T6 powertrain that’s going into the 2021+ version of the S6 0swaps out the supercharger for batteries and a motor, basically turning it into a T8 Lite good for 340 HP. MY2020 S60s with the outgoing gasoline-only T6 powertrain are already plentiful under $50,000 new in the US, and I…

Tried something similar in my ZR-1. Joke is on me, the ZR-1 has abysmal radio reception even without tall trees or buildings in the way!

Oh they go cheap as shit pretty quickly, it’s probably more that the culture surrounding the Corvette is almost antithetical to the one surrounding drift missiles.

It’s a GM thing. You either like the way they drive enough to overlook it or you buy something else.

I agree the fit, finish, and materials on the C4 are pretty terrible (I’ve had a 1996 LT4 and have a 1990 ZR-1; the 1990 is ironically higher quality than the ‘96). But the ergonomics? As somebody who is 5'8" and sub-150 lbs, I thought they were lovely. Everything falls neatly to hand, all the rest points are…

The early cars are what you want for autocross, though, especially if you want to race in showroom stock classes. They had stiffer spring rates than the later ones and less weight for the lack of luxuries and extra safety equipment. The 1989 with Z51, in particular, is sought after because it has all those things but…

I guess I’m a sociopath, given that I lusted for a 1990 ZR-1 and now own one.

A 1996 ZR-1 would certainly fetch a pretty penny, given that they never made any for MY1996.

Rear fascia doesn’t need replaced, just repainted. Maybe not if you aren’t into DIY though.

You can get most of that (we don’t have deserts and we do get salt) in the DMV and immediate surrounding area, have housing about half the price as the Bay area, and still have an amazing selection of career opportunities including the tech sector.

And it’s going to be a shitshow.

I’m not selling anything. A car with options over the base car, that costs more, isn’t a stripper model just because it’s not heavily optioned.