God yes, the Vietnam motorbike special was one of the best.

While a lot of Grand Tour has been bloated I really think that the Mongolia episode (in which they assembled “John” and drove it across the steppe to a town called Moron) was on par with their best TG efforts like Viet Nam.  It had enough bloviating and cocking about to assure you knew it was them but at its heart was…

I mean, 40 cigs a day for decades will do that to ya

You know he’s only 61 years old, right? Although I would have sworn he was 75, like, two decades ago.

I loved rally in the early 00s. Lots of manufacturers supporting, still had big names like Tommi, Colin, Burns, Gronholm, and Sainz. 8 different winners over 14 rounds! Look at the number of retirements in 2001 versus 2019.  I want to care about rally now, but it definitely doesn’t feel the same 20 years later.  

Nostalgia trip: Used to watch SpeedTV’s WRC coverage religiously in the 2000s with Burns, Makinen, Gronholm, Loeb and my all time favorite Solberg. Best coverage of WRC, 1 hour of curated highlight coverage each day of the weekend. Muah. Now I need to go find some old footage.

Every Canadian is legally mandated to play Hockey and/or Lacrosse from birth. Concussions are our biggest national export.

It won’t make a bit of difference. This low-life will thrive on the edge of the law his entire life, grifting and abusing the weak. He will always play the down-on-his-luck family man card and get let off lightly. He doesn’t deserve to be locked up for life but he will never change either.

Sadly, he’s already procreated.

This human being somehow functions, will live out his life, vote, and procreate.

The same people buying (or, more likely, leasing) a Yukon Denali or Escalade. 

You mean like a $40k Tahoe?  <rolleyes>

Nobody is stupid enough to spend $90k on the same exact car that’s available for almost $40k less minus some extra leather trim.

Its accounted for, its just a calculation of consumer expectations, packaging and cost. they COULD build enough clutch to fully lock the unit, but:

It’s okay! I can make room for it all!

I’m not gonna lie; mentioning the Cybertruck will get people to see and click this. It’s also the most well-known upcoming EV truck design out there. It’d be crazy not to mention it. Plus, it’s such a diametrically opposed design, it makes a great counterpoint to this one.

no, no, just the battery expansion flaps (hydraulic) and the chain-driven electron pump and the electromechanical polarity re-reverser with its heavy-duty synchronizing chain guided with little tabs made of pressed M&M shells

My main concern would be reliability and maintenance, as it’s German, thus the battery probably has dozens of unnecessary moving parts that are failure prone and expensive to repair.

I better fix that