Ms. Elizabeth would have been even more confusing...what is the Macho Man’s manager doing up there?

So you’re saying I should buy that Miata RF this spring?  I’ve driven a friend’s Model S a bunch, it has no soul.  But another’s friend’s Bolt is fun to hustle on its crappy tires, but is still silently boring.

This is my 2000 Celica GTS I bought new 1 week after I started my first job...a job which I still have. Wish I could say the same of the Celica, which I hit a deer with in June 2020 and was totaled with about 383,000 miles.

I admire her stick-to-itiveness! She’s not gonna blink first, even if it ruins her entire life, dammit. Incidentally, was this a 3rd generation Prelude (87-91)? My friend’s dad in grade school bought one new, an Si, and I thought it was the coolest car ever, and even today if I see one, they still look so, so good. It…

Yeah, sad but true. I recall reading some metric on the shuttle from the promise to the actual, and it was like it cost 10x more to launch than they thought and flew 1/5 as many missions, so basically cost 50x what they thought. I work a lot with FAA folks who truly, really care about their jobs and their mission, but…

I like the mica blue on the RF, actually looking at getting one in 2021.  But I also like the look of that deep blue...

I agree with the props for the boldness and ingenuity of SpaceX, but I think the scorn for NASA is harsh. SpaceX and others are standing on the shoulder of giants, those 60's and 70's nerds with pocket protectors and horned rim glasses who who solved most of the problems by hand that SpaceX and others now treat as…

Interesting insights!  I work on airports, so the client can usually do whatever they want...so long as the airlines say its ok.  We’ve look at Port Authority work and were like, nope.

Concur NYC is a bit of an anomaly - the phasing and utility conflicts are mind boggling with anything there. But you know one “benefit” of those high costs is sandhogs and electricians and other Union guys who can feed their families with no college degree. The same jobs that used to allow Union auto workers to lead…

I fully agree that it is, and I think the US historical identity is too much “me first” at this (possibly late) stage of the game to truly reap the benefits that Nordic countries do, and we are probably just too big for that to be a goal anyway. And I think there is a global competitive advantage to some of the…

And try building a 7 mile tunnel in the US for a cost that does not include the word “billion”. $160 million for this is ungodly cheap for this type of work. Denmark’s infrastructure is so, so good, and doubly so if you are on feet or a bike, and about 100X better than the US for pedestrians. But, you know, socialism.

I thought the same - like some sort of Torch photoshop - and finally read the article and watched the video. The body language of the first driver is pretty funny. The WTF motions and the subtle shaking of the head.

Makes me think of Dwight Schrute: “Amazing, isn’t it?  No other animal on earth could do this. Maybe beavers.”

I hope to acquire a Miata in 2021 so maybe that will be my chance!

I was at an event at Summit Point (WV) last year and they had the skidpad open for drifting.  I think I saw about 3 seconds of actual drifting over 4 hours of countless Mustangs & Vette’s and other RWD’ attempting it.  They would all either understeer like crazy...or spin.  I could only think it was a lot harder than…

Yikes, I overlooked you did the net calc there, my bad!

But in buying the car you have spent $8,000 more but have a $28,000 asset to show for it, for a net gain of $20,000. And every month thereafter you bank an extra $600+\-. I guess for some the fashion tax is worth it.

And at top speed, about $1,700 per minute!

The absolute worst is an E46 pitched as a manual only to discover the totally fraudulent claim that the SMG-II is being portrayed a manual.

I’m a lurker for a nicely used NB Miata, and I do exactly the same thing for each listing, and it is shocking/disappointing/horrifying how many automatic Miata’s there are out there masquerading as manuals.