The point of the comment is to highlight how Covid has affected workers differently. White collar workers have generally kept their jobs, often able to work from home and minimize exposure, and as a group have seen wages/wealth actually increase during the pandemic. Blue collar workers don’t have the luxury of…

Yeah, it’s terrible. And the ungainly, unrefined fender bulges keep giving me a Jeep Patriot vibe, which is not something BMW designers should be aspiring too. I think the wheels are affecting that as well because they look like cheap steelies. The whole front end looks weirdly pinched/puckered, the wheel/tire combo…

It’s not about whether or not you like the format, it’s about boosting their ad metrics on engagement and user clicks.  Gotta pay the bills.

I would love to bike more, but the roads around me are all current/former country roads with no bike lane and zero shoulder, so the only way to ride is in the traffic lane, and I certainly don’t trust other drivers enough to do that.

When we bought our house we wanted a 3-car garage to have room for my car projects.  The house we ended up buying has a 2-car garage unfortunately, but an unfinished, walkout basement.  So I had a garage door installed and a portion of the basement finished as  a workshop I can pull my cars into, so I ended up with an…

Sure, Cuba *could* buy food, but with what hard currency? US Embargoes were designed to keep Cuba’s economy sabotaged, locking them out of international trade that would have provided the necessary currency to import food.

I can relate. Currently in the middle of a weeks-long clutch replacement due to a worn out throw-out bearing on my RX-8. Currently in the middle of trying to get the flywheel to break loose. Then I have a long list of things I want to do to my ‘67 Amazon, but I try and limit those to minor projects because I have a…

I need to get into a habit on my projects to get some progress. 2 hours a day commuting and 3 kids makes for not much free time. But I’m starting a new job next month that will cut my commute from 2 hours/day to 20 minutes/day, so I hope that I use that new time to get stuff done.

And what is the fatality rate per million miles traveled? 

Starting in ‘68, the Volvo Amazon had a dual circuit.  Mine is a ‘67 with the single-circuit.  Replacing the brake master and changing over to a dual circuit are both on my to-do list.

Hydrogen power for passenger cars will always be a pipe dream as long as there is no infrastructure for refueling, and no one is going to build an infrastructure if there are no hydrogen vehicles on the road.  However, it may make sense for over-the road trucking.  Hydrogen would give trucks the range they need, and…

Not to mention the fact it’s out and out untrue. Transportation (Of literally everything - planes, trains, automobiles and ships) is already down to 14% of emissions in America, and falls every year. Agriculture, as a point of comparison, is 24%

It amazes me how much noise exists around reducing/eliminating car emissions, when they are such a small piece of the global emissions pie.

Planes account for a good deal of it, too. But there’s no reason we can’t work on all sources at the same time.

Daily reminder that SHIPS account for over half of that.

He’s got an entire book about it! I picked up a copy a few months ago when I visited the Lane Motor Museum. Signed and doodled by Torch himself. I’m currently in the middle of reading it.

how many cars have revved to 9,000 since from the factory? Other than perhaps a few hypercars, none

It’s from the movie Ready Player One

From what I remember, USPS wanted a much larger cargo capacity because they handle a lot more package delivery now than back when the LLVs were commissioned. All those amazon boxes have to fit somewhere, and they are very space-constrained with the LLV.

They look awesome, but I bet the driver’s seat is too high for the USPS requirement. I’m sure the seat has to be pretty low for ergonomic reasons when reaching for the mailbox. Likewise, regular box vans like UPS drives would not allow for proper height to reach mail boxes.