If you can readily find the AT3W in the right size (remember you have five tires on your 4Runner) then they’re arguably better all around. I only went with KO2 because they were (for me at the time) much easier to come by.

Yes.  Relatively heavy with most of the weight not over the drive wheels is going to be a bad time.  I had a 95 Cherokee that was also trash in the snow or even a light rain because it was super light on the back you could break the rear end free way too easily.

Excellent point.  With the inconsistent winter temps becoming more and more common, you have to start wondering how much sense it makes to have winter tires that really shouldn’t go on until the temps actually drop.  This year, if I still had a car I swapped tires on, I’d have wanted to wait until late December (in…

Trucks are bad in general on snow unless you’re plowing or dealing with tons of depth (which you won’t on almost any public roads). A Miata with winter tires was easily the best car I’ve driven in the snow. Excellent grip. Lower inertia so it was easier to go/stop. Did great.

Our tent weighs like 4-5 pounds and packed up is smaller than a throw pillow. Even if you include bedding, you’re talking about stuff that can fit in a tupperware container with other camp stuff. Roof tents just seem so inelegant, but I’d totally want one too if I had a barn to store it in

The cheapo Slime compressor will overheat (and need to cool down) before airing up even more moderately sized tires from ~20 PSI back up to ~35 PSI. Especially if it is 100+ deg F out. Not the end of the day, but you will spend more time hanging in a parking lot on a hot day.

We’d all like a barn.  At least in our heads it allows us to indulge in all our natural hoarding tendencies without most of the downsides associated with those tendencies.  Everyone expects a barn to be filled with shit (literal or not) and it makes it much easier to claim that you’re a “collector” of crap that nobody…

10-year-old design

I’m surprised Nine Inch Nails hasn’t sued them for trademark infringement yet.

Some excellent points being made here in the comments. I’d just like to add that F1 needs Lewis more than Lewis needs F1. He’s got beyond fuck you money and fame.

Joking aside, wouldn’t it literally need to be able to do that in order to function?  Like, if you’re paranoid about this the only solution is to more enthusiastically allow big data to track you?

Some of the airlines are even requiring at least a “surgical mask.”  So the cloth masks won’t even cut it.

What’s fucked is that the $300 could have made a real difference if put towards something useful other than just signaling that you’re all in on stupid.

Oh definitely. I was in Europe for work and if anything, things felt more normalized even if it was to a new state, if that makes sense. They’ve accepted getting tests, masking, whatever pretty readily it seemed and their consumption of fuel is likewise going to go up. Like you said, has fuck-all to do with Biden or…

This doesn’t sound fun.  How do you manage this?

People have gotten vaccinated/boosters and are driving/flying much more. Higher demand. Supply lagged demand. Prices went up.

These days, when I go to NYC I don’t drive (because I why would you?), but I have driven there before. Assuming a relatively zippy 20mph average speed, that’s 42 hours a week or 6 hours a day assuming they do this seven days a week.

I don’t see how a sixties V8 was getting 25MPG while producing anything like that kind of power.  I had a 72 Impala with a similar engine/transmission to the 69 (I think) Corvette and that made WAY less power and never got better than 17MPG.

Those 90s Accords are great.  Still see tons of them around.  I had an Accord (2004) for a while in no small part because of my good experience with a 90s Accord.  The thing just went and went without any fuss at all.  Which I guess is what a car should be, but there were a lot of shitty cars kicking around in the 90s.

Is it seeing any salt? Heavy rains? Is it garaged or kept outside? I’m really curious.