In my Great lakes lousy winters hot summers city they work great. We’ve got a mix of dedicated bike paths that serve as a bike freeway through the city and then more and more bike lanes on the streets.

I think RTTs work best when you live where there’s BLM land where you can just camp where ever you want. Like, around here you’re just going to be stuck in a parking lot or in the spot next to the RVs.

This is always the case with factory car tents. I don’t know why they can’t get crisp lines and taught fabric but it’s like somehow it’s impossible when it comes from the factory.

OK, so factory tents that integrate with vehicles NEVER look good. That’s just a given. For some reason they’re always baggy and loose fitting in a way that a real tent never is. So the Cybertent is no outlier here.

Subaru Outback- the big plastic rack thing on the roof. Instead of a set of standard roof rails (like the rails on a forester), the outback has these giant clunky rack things that kinda work sort of but are too short for canoes and kayaks, too narrow and most importantly, do not fit with the literally thousands of…

Someone’s never driven a 3 on the tree...

Manual transmissions are always better/Automatic transmissions ruin the driving experience.

That was invented by dads who really just wanted to concentrate on the road.

On the one hand, I totally get that this was not a fatal problem and everyone is getting a little worked up.

Wow you are in a mood to fight. Ima bow out.

Actually, yup. I am a single car household. I need a vehicle that’s functional, doesn’t break and doesn’t need expensive service. And hauls my kiddo, hauls bikes and camping gear and canoes and paddle boards. And mulch and lumber and weird shit I find on Craigslist. 911s are cool but given the choice between the two I…

Funny enough, I’d prefer a camry over a 911. You’re reading a lot into it but you do you.

I like his old stuff but it feels like a Miro/Kandinsky mashup. I’m glad he found his own path.

So, why did I say one is a porsche and one is a camry? because a 911 is pretty rare on the roads. A camry is common. I will see 20 camrys on my drive home tonight but not a single 911. Does that make 911s bad cars? hardly anyone drives them, they must suck. Does that make the camry the greatest car in the world?…

LBJ was about as much of an insider as it was possible to be. He knew how to get the senate to do what he wanted, knew how to make a compromise, He may have been a crude jackass when he wanted to be but he was still presidential as hell. Although a friend of mine once quipped, “I wonder when they’re going to build a…

They still tell the story about the amphicar on tours of the Johnson Ranch.

Driving into Chicago is always a stressful nightmare even on a good day. We’ve learned to park in the suburbs and take the train in. I get to relax, the kiddos get to chatter and look out the windows and my partner and I get to hang out and start the visit without a giant driving and parking headache. I just wish I…

My hot take, which I have said over and over and over again: if we want more cool little sports cars, we need better public transit.

Funny that you named an artist who was called talentless a hack who couldn’t paint by his contemporaries. Monet got rid of the idea of complete reproduction of a scene and just painted it’s impression, thus impressionism. It was considered lazy, bad, ugly “herp derp maybe he needs glasses” but he painted what he…

to quote Dr. Frankenfurter “I didn’t make him for YOU!”