You don’t live in the rust belt, do you?

After years of building bicycle wheels by ensuring that you can see the hub logo directly through the valve stem hole, and aligning tire logos opposite the valve (and thus in line with the rim logo), I am embarrassed to say that I never ever noticed this on any car.

I’m sorry, this is so high pitched it is painful to listen to on a hi-fi system.

Technically speaking, the Supra fits this bill.

I noticed that too. I’d love to hear the story behind that.

Did someone call for Señor Coconut?

I was on the fence, and the Pulp Fiction reference swayed me to NP.

Well, technically, they’re grilles, not grills.

User name checks out.

Except that with any of those Porsches, you get all of the power you paid for, all of the time. No limp modes because it overheated halfway through a hot lap, like Teslas do every time.

Oh come on, for enough money - say $123 billion dollars - I’m sure you could convince VW to sell you Bugatti:

I’ll wait for an aftermarket front bumper to fix the baleen whale face.

Olympic Broil and Nip-N-Sip Drive In in Lansing, Michigan are the places my parents took me to when growing up in the 1990s and early 2000s. Both are still there, though by the time I was going to them they were already survivors.

No, CUVs are not at all just wagons with a lifted suspension.

Reading your response got me thinking - an interesting though probably wildly impractical supercharger design could be a reciprocating piston design driven off the crankshaft.

Yes, Raph/Patrick/Jason, what is the Ark of the Covenant/Mobile Imperial Throne looking thing near the wall? I didn’t see it mentioned in the other Lane articles.

Andrew, I’m glad that you finally feel able to share this with us. I hope your recovery continues and eventually you’ll have full use of your hand.

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That’s a classic!

Maybe.... Descending a nearly vertical drop and suddenly stopping at the bottom decelerated the vehicle, possibly faster than any normal vehicle would with brakes, combined with the full load in the vertical position already pulling on the door/rain gutter rack mount clamps towards the front of the car, stresses the…