Calling BS on this. Mine’s 16 now and as a baby/toddler/grade schooler she barfed all over the back seat, there were goldfish crackers permanently ground into the upholstery, sippy cups leaked, crayons got left in the door pull and then melted down the door card, She got bored on a long drive and kicked the center…

OK, honest answer on why I didn’t get the minivan when we had a kid- they’re too expensive. I got what I could afford, which was a VW JSW.

Didn’t Moog already do this on Might Car Mods? And the result looks better? And with zero pretentiousness? And that still has a functioning back seat and trunk?

The feeling I get watching Grand Tour is... like seeing bands on the state fair circuit. Like, they used to be a thing- “Ladies and Gentlemen, BADFINGER”- but now they’re old, they’re just doing the hits (look, Jeremy’s hitting something with a hammer! And there’s James being Pedantic!) because that’s all the…

Oh, we’ll know. Eventually.

OK, correct me if I’m wrong, and I know this the the brave new world of Uber losing money on every ride and crypto and NFTs, so maybe I’m behind the curve on current economic theory. BUT, If you’re not making money on sales, shouldn’t you just raise the price so that you are, in fact, making money?

I know, I know. But it’s an industry specific word and you just grit your teeth through it the first 20,000 times you hear it. After a while, it just becomes natural.

I would love to have almost any of of those small sub-15k chinese EVs as a daily commuter, as a car I could let my kiddo use to drive to school. I hate that all we get are gigantic monster cars.

My best guess is that these NYC trucks are designed to handle much larger bins than our residential bins but otherwise, yeah, this is how we get our trash picked up everywhere else.

So you’re saying that a truck without solid axles and lockers and that’s burdened with all manner of electronic traction controls can still be driven in snow? dear god in heaven what have we done?

I’m a designer- sure, I’m just an advertising designer, but one of the biggest lessons in design works across all forms of design- If you want to think “out of the box,” it’s important to understand the box. To know why this box exists. To understand that there are reasons countless other designers have created this…

that one just sailed right over your head, didn’t it?

Until you powerslide into a parking lot glacier.

Wrong. Not driving always beats driving in snow. And it’s less expensive.

The hillbilly halfwits I had in mind were the Graham family. Billy “do as I say” Graham and his reprehensible son Franklin “not as I do” Graham.

Oh, that’s right- “no fault divorce makes divorce too easy” says someone who’s never gone through the agony that is divorce in America.

Straight, cisgendered folks who think that this has nothing to do with you: Please understand. These same folks will come for your birth control. They will come for your ability to hook up with randos. They will come for you.

The difference between what it’s worth to you and what it’s worth to me is the basis of human enterprise.

When Indianapolis decided to turn the old, disused Monon train line into a bike path, I remember people absolutely freaking out that it would become a crime superhighway to the suburbs. Ignoring the fact that Indianapolis already has several highways and freeways from downtown to the suburbs.

Honestly, same. I’m the same age as you and I don’t want to live in an apartment. I like my house. My suburb got swallowed up by the city decades ago. But, My neighborhood has decent bus lines- it used to have like 3 stops but post covid it’s only got one, which is still only a few blocks from my house. The city has…