My last 3 cars have all had right around 180hp. A 2003 Impreza outback sport, a 2013 VW sportwagen and a 2017 Subaru outback. At no time in any of these vehicles did I ever think, “man, I wish I had more power so I could...” I use ellipses here because I honestly can’t think of what I would need double the HP I’ve got…

Which, for most drivers, is just fine. And since the folks who don’t care about road feel make up about 99% of the car buying market, get used to it. 

100%. All I know is my modern car with all its fancy electronics and motors and all the wee little actuators and whatnot really doesn’t fail very often, unlike the cars I grew up with, which were aggressively simple and seemed to fail weekly.

Right, so the last wagon maker I can afford. Also never owning another european car. 

I really, really hope this doesn’t become the data/privacy/Wait, they were recording conversations in the car?/version of DieselGate.

Well, then what are you willing to give up? If you don’t want to pay for things, because how dare the government charge you for things you enthusiastically voted for, whatcha gonna give up? what services are you ok with losing and how are you going to deal with the repercussions without support?

counterpoint: no it won’t, which is why none of the eurocampers are sold here.

Or, you could just get a used Transit connect wagon, ship it to Ursa Minor and have a pop top installed for 8-10k then do the build out on your own and come in at about half the cost of the proace, with the advantage of being able to actually get it fixed in the US.

No Dice because I read it as Venture Brothers edition and got really excited for a minute. GO TEAM VENTURE!

Yeah no. What you’re feeling isn’t that the jusgement was appropriate, but that the crime was more relatable- “there but for the grace of god go I.”

They were in town for the Ironman that weekend. this was a training ride before the race. and I don’t care if it was some homeless dude on a walmart basket bike or lance fucking armstrong himself, the riders were humanbeings that deserved better than they got. 

The thing that pisses me off the most about this whole mess is that these cyclists were hit doing a training ride for that weekend’s Ironman race- meaning that the ones who were hit, who’ve been training for this for at least a year and sometimes more, got that dream yanked right out from under them. The ones who…

Until it kicks up a Mothra

OK Stellantis, I’ve worked in branding my whole career and have helped some pretty big companies come up with names for their products. I’m not cheap, but because this is important, I’m willing to do it for free.

I suggest you rename it the Jeep Bro- it’s got it’s own modern tribal connotations, it speaks directly to…

Came for the bitchy comments by people who are never going to buy an new SI, was not disappointed.

The problem is, it’s not really an issue. Because of how you ride a bike, you tend to shift your weight around a LOT- and when you hit the front brake you tend to shift your weight way back- when you’ve got contact patches the size of an apple cut in half, you learn to maximize that traction by shifting your weight.…

It was a brilliant idea. It’s just that it was a brilliant idea 25 years ago. And in mountain bike years that makes it a sopwith camel to today’s unmanned combat drones.

I think the big problem here is that this was, in 1995, a revolutionary piece of tech and an amazing bike. 26 years later, it’s a quirky bit of evolutionary dead end. Every couple years someone else will come out with a “revolutionary anti-dive fork for mountain bikes that will change everything!” And they are all…

I think the problem is that there are so many other options that do the job better, for less, with less problems. Modern Maserattis also have the problem of looking very much like slightly swoopier pontiacs. 

I mean I think you’ve got the concept of camping completely wrong, but a lot of culture comes from the bottom up.