This is maybe less radical than it sounds - diesel-electric drive is increasingly common for big mine trucks, bulldozers &c. The ones running predictable routes can even get power from an overhead catenary (like electric trains and trolleybuses). Technologies like this are pretty mature now.

This is the true spirit of Jalopnik. It’s like grafting a Mazda rotary into a Belarus tractor. Or putting a 10-litre rotary aircraft engine into a Goggomobil.

GTA Online is a terrible word-processor too. Few font choices, no pagination, minimal typo-recognition, can’t track changes. There’s no option to change margins or line-spacing.

One game can’t do everything. If you want accurate racing, go play an accurate racing game instead. :-)

Sorry.

Is a Singer still a car, by your rules? It costs a hundred times more than a generic 10-year-old Toyota, but it won’t get you to the office much quicker and won’t carry more people or luggage. The Singer is a luxury upgrade; conspicuous consumption. And I’m fine with that.

Alas! In a way, I think this watch is a really bad fit with Singer’s ethos. The dial has countless fussy little details which detract from the pure simple experience of using a watch to tell the time, and those details don’t really work together coherently. This is completely different to the pared-down, clean lines…

Apart from all the legal comments - and I completely agree with the consensus that the police were out of line, and probably trying to harm an innocent victim’s interests in order to cover themselves - I’d like to point out one other secondary detail.

If you’re hauled out of a burning truck, and taken to a burns unit…

Always relevant.

Is this new? Ten years ago, my Mercedes had a deep fold of leather to fill the gap, doing the same job but with better accessibility (easier to grab the keys/coins &c without stretching from your seated position).

Jaime Lannister must kill his sister; he *has* to do it unless GRRM is the greatest bait-and-switch artist of all time; Cersei hasn’t died in the series so far, so today isn’t Jaime’s day to die -he’ll live on to fight another day. No?

Mercedes CL is the answer to every question.

There’s plenty of blame to go around. It doesn’t have to be 100% driver or 100% Tesla; they can both get a share. At this stage it seems like the driver did something stupid, but still, Tesla helped enable that to some extent.

The CL600 was an amazing feat of engineering; but a cheap CL is the most expensive car you’ll ever buy. People worry (rightly) about the reliability of old British roadsters, but I still wake up screaming from nightmares about the CL-class and S-class suspension.

70-series Landcruiser; go anywhere, indestructible. It’s simple. :-)

I went to a motor auction to buy a cheap, boring diesel hatchback.

I do a few auctions in the UK. It’s almost the same, but with one difference: Police don’t run auctions, they usually take vehicles to an independent auction house, which typically sells them in batches between other auctioned cars.

Instead, states with nuclear weapons indulge in proxy wars, which have killed (or ruined the lives of) countless millions. Nobody invaded the USA, but the second half of the 20th century was not a fun time for faraway brown people.

I bought Mercedes cufflinks, with little three-pointed stars. Sorry. I’m so sorry.

His cover of Creep is one of the best tracks of all time. OF ALL TIME.