Thanks for putting on a good show!

How about a bunch of questions?

Consider me stoked. I’ve never watched the 2000s-era Top Gear and just recently stumbled onto clips of OG Top Gear on YouTube. The holidays are enough time to catch up on two decades of British motoring television, right? RIGHT?!

Yeah, they label this a starter kit. It looks like there are nine more kits that collectively perform the conversion. I’d be shocked if these kits, all-in, total less than $25k.

I’m not the oldest fella on this forum; I got my first car at 40,000 miles and only last year rolled it over the 100,000 miles. That’s still notable because a) it’s a Nissan with a CVT made of paper, and b) I did some proper Jalop trip odometer planning for the 100k-mile mark.

Well, if anything, this article’s mention of a guy dying of COVID on their flight is a nice reminder that United Airlines can eat a buffet of dicks. 

Trip to Austria, couple years back. Friend and I are sweating our way up Ausseer Ohrwaschl (Mt. Loser) on rented bikes. Suddenly two dozen Porsches scream by us.

This really needs a “/s” at the end.

Your mention of chabuduo is as good an opportunity as any to re-read this Jalopnik gem and spend the rest of the day missing Alanis. 

If only I did literally anything with the same zeal of David Tracy investigating the origins of random economy cars.

Hot damn, that’s good (and deeply horrifying) story. Since it’s still ongoing, this seems worth a spotlight at least as a Morning Shift gear.

Traffic that’s moving slower than idle speed + uphill mountain road + heavy manual transmission = automotive hell.

Don’t forget the Kia Niro. It’s Prius mileage with vastly more utility and better looks. With long highway trips, it’s potentially a lower-cost runner than a PHEV like the Volt.

I just wouldn’t trust a Leaf to keep making that all-weather commute, given those batteries’ cooling systems and resulting degradation characteristics over the years. By all accounts, the Leaf is a better place to spend time than a Bolt, but my bet is that the Bolt will still be running with usable range in a decade…

Honestly have never sat in one. I’ve heard the interior is spartan, so I can believe that this is a case of $10k car on $30k drivetrain. 

It’s Bolt time. 

So what’s Michael Motorist’s deal? Is he a ManBearFish who’s secretly Canadian?

Just buy the damn minivan Miata.

Ahhh, you suffered from the strawberry milkshake of death?

You’re not wrong that our charging infrastructure is woefully inadequate. But to me, this kinda reads more as a repudiation of electric drivetrains for specific applications, e.g. touring motorcycles. In most modern electric cars, you’re making this trip in complete comfort with maybe two stops along the way.