Fast Five ruined the series. F1-F4 was about cars. F5-present is an action movie that happens to have cool cars.

Tbh, FF never really captured car culture that well. Can really only make arguments for the first and Tokyo Drift. All the rest simply use cars as a backdrop. 

I like the zen and art reference, as I age i like cars that break down less, need less work and hold together better, yes I miss my 78 rabbit 4 speed but not when I need to get to work reliably and not sweat covered or when it filled with water when it rained.

Beautifully said. My Neon had much more...charm, than my Cruze. Is the Cruze a “better” vehicle? In every objective way, 100%. And maybe it’s nostalgia bias, but I even feel that way when I have to drive our shitty 24-year-old Corolla. There’s a simplicity and feeling that is missing from today’s rolling social-isolati…

A lot of Elon adherents wonder why other automotive CEOs don’t get the scrutiny that Musk does when Tesla rolls out new or different technologies. They view this scrutiny as bias. But it’s not. 

Unlike other automotive CEOs, Musk implies that everything Tesla does was thought up specifically by him. He may not say it…

Forgot the /s?

Around a decade ago, Elon Musk and Tesla had a great idea. They developed an electric car that was the opposite of what we had come to expect from one. People thought electric cars were slow so they made it fast. We thought they took forever to charge so they developed a way to charge them quickly and built the…

How fucking stupid. This is why I don’t take Tesla stans seriously, Elon comes out with blatantly dangerous shit, but WE’RE the idiots for saying so. Welp, I guess we better brace ourselves for all the inevitable “STEERING YOKE FAIL!!” stories that are inevitably on their way.

When I worked on a sorting dock at a shipping company, our pick-off had a very similar response several times every morning. I wonder how much of your life that job shaves off per day.

I once held out for like 2 weeks over $500. They are always screwing people. Then they go and sponsor the local MLB park. Seriously. American Family Insurance in Wisconsin is probably some of the most expensive insurance and apparently they like screwing early 20s kids out of $500 on a $3000 bill. They should just be…

Man, is the Chinese gov’t thin-skinned. Thank God we’ve never had anyone leading our gov’t that couldn’t take a joke.

I mean...who else would it be for? I can’t think of what a reunion special could do to appeal to fence-sitters or new potential fans.

“We never found records of a Jack Dawson”

I’ve bought and sold on BAT and also driven several models that show up from time to time. I agree some have quality traits. A foxbody is still goofy fun, but the value proposition gets lost as prices increase. I found the E46 M3 to be wildly overrated. It has a decent engine note....I smh at the Lexus LS models—the…

Every BMW is overpriced, as is every pickup. There are people, in the year of our Lord 2021, spending a hair under $60,000 to get cloth seats in a F-150. You know how many people don’t even make $60k in an entire year? About half the country. 

America’s slow twilight continues.

I have Rebel on the DVR. I still haven’t touched it. I really like Katy Sagal, so I had some intentions. Something about it seemed too earnest for my taste. I didn’t realize that was the cast, though. Maybe I’ll watch some of it—just to torture myself over the cancellation.

Robert Downey Jr. so desperately needs a role in an adult movie that would benefit from his razor-sharp wit & delivery, and this would be a perfect vehicle for him.