Highways in MN are good. City streets vary from city to city though.

In places where it gets cold, it seems like those things would ice up and not be able to work.

And don’t even bother if you have the AC running

I had a 93 escort wagon 5 speed, and it didn’t seem THAT slow, but man, if you wanted to merge on the freeway, you definitely had to turn off the AC til you got up to speed.

Those are all over Mexico too, I could never understand how they are supposed to make anything better.

Even if you don’t fully get it, just default to ‘stay to the right’ and everything will be ok

sounds like how they are in my hometown too

Or maybe attaching it to a train car.

My first car was a red 1993 Ford Escort Wagon. It was about as vanilla as it gets, the only automatic thing in it was the power mirrors. Manual transmission, no cruise control, so little power that if you turned on the AC you’d have a hard time getting it up to 60.

Its got to be a huge pain in the ass to unload the ones that tipped over too, those cranes are set up to move ones that are flat and level.

Every time I’ve tried that the muscle memory of driving a manual kicks in and I just jam on the brake pedal with my left foot.

I had the 1985 model as my first car. It was 10 years old at the time and only had 80k miles on it. The 5 speed on it decided to die when my boss demanded that I come into work when it was -34 outside (actual air temp). 

That tool sounds EXACTLY like the kind of tool my company likes to buy and then blame IT for it not working properly.

I frequently feel like he did at my work, I say something is a bad idea, I strongly recommend we do ANYTHING else, and then we go with whatever solution because its cheaper, which, after a couple of months, turns out to have been a really bad idea, but we’re stuck with it for years because in IT contracts are usually…

I love my escape, but man, I really have envy for the Transit Connect.

The last time I did that I was helping a friend of mine drive back from CO to MN in a 1989 Jaguar XJ6, which, amazingly, made the entire trip without breaking down (though the speedometer jumped around so much in speed we had to use the GPS to figure out how fast we were actually going)

When I’ve made that drive, I take the extra hour and a half and go the northern route through a little corner of Wyoming and South Dakota. There’s at least a little more scenery to see along the way.

Its the one circumstance that I would be willing to put up with the customer service at Sirius to activate it for one month for a drive like that. Then when you’re in no phone service country, at least you have like 50 radio stations to pick from.

I always thought maybe it would be a good idea to make them different shapes instead of just different sizes so you couldn’t fuck that up. What’s stopping a triangular connector or something like that? 

thanks for proving my point yet again.