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I’m biased because the first 7 star trek movies were in a heavy childhood VHS rotation, but I actually think Star Trek V is only a few minutes of screentime away from being a pretty great classic. Cast chemistry, pacing, musical scoring, visuals, sets, costumes, props, character development...it’s all there. I used to

Nobody is going to jump on the “SEAT TEAS”? I might want a SEAT TEAS...sounds pleasant!

I always told my brother’s WRX: “Ur a bus”.

One of the best things I’ve read on The Root in ages, bravo! Callousness, pettiness, selfishness, and not apologizing are very contagious poisons, even amongst people who are dedicated to opposing those very poisons! “Racing to the bottom” has been a key element of Trumpism from the start, and this article nails that

Lewis is better than Valtteri, but Valtteri is close enough, and remains close enough, where a combination of “Bottas purple streak” plus “Hamilton a bit flat” does put Bottas ahead, and Valtteri has managed to maintain that closeness despite Lewis generally always improving. Bottas even got to end 2019 and start 2020

The second season definitely felt less authentic, less open, less insightful than the first...not bad, still enjoyable, but if the teams and corporate “image-makers” keep sanitizing it for season 3 it’s going to be a disappointment...

(this is all pre-COVID stuff in the following post FYI) I PNO’d my Miata for a year because it was due for smog and re-registering, but it had no engine in it to smog in order to get the registration since I was waiting on a rebuild that was taking FOREVER to get done...so I went the PNO route and found it very

My friend has been doing new car ordering at a large BMW dealer in NorCal for years, and he said the 8 coupe and cabrio flew off the lot for the first 6 to 8 weeks and then just...sat there. The people who wanted them snapped them up at launch, and that seems to have been all the interest there was.

Can I be optimistic and think (probably quite inaccurately), that 0.01 degrees celsius reduction in 3 months...that’s 0.04 degrees celsius per year. that’s 0.4 celsius in a decade? That’s huge! I doubt it scales that way but if it’s even close, this is actually a call that action on climate change IS possible!

After watching Frank Stephenson’s take on the 4 series, I’m realizing that BMW is losing so much of its character by breaking up their forever-distinctive side body lines, doing bland-like-everyone-else side detailing and vents and scallops, Lexus tailights...the haunch of this wagon is incredibly pleasing and it has

Can I tag along and be a MkIV booster? I take your silence as a yes!

I love MkIV GTIs; I had two from new (a 2002 tiptronic that I quickly traded for a 2004 stripper 1.8T 5-speed that I kept for a dozen years). They’re nearly impossible to find in good shape now; you either find them with 180k+ miles pretty beat up for less than $3000, or you find someone’s tastefully modified garage

It’s definitely made me think other series might consider making this a more common season-ending “thing”...rock up to one venue for a week or more, run it multiple times in rapid-fire succession on as many configurations as you can do, and let it all roll! On one hand it does take out some elements of a classic

Wow I really want this show, and I want it to be “KITT Your Enthusiasm” with David H playing L David.

I’m annoyed with Mercedes over this hangup to preserve their own positions; but they’re also partly annoyed with Ferrari preserving its special veto in the newest agreement and I don’t like that either! As a fan I want to see an agreement binding sports teams that doesn’t give any team any form of special vetos or spec

I look forward to a Fisker product that is unlikely to catch on fire!

3rd Gear: I’m glad people who made bad decisions are being held accountable in Germany; we should try something like that in the United States sometime.

When I think of EV design I think “try to have a low cD*A”, and Hummer sticks in my mind because the H2's cD*A was a lot more than any of its competitors and is like...10x a Model X? So I wonder how successful GM will be doing the Hummer shape and not have really piss-poor range.

Now is not the time to get hung up on such things...let’s make sure Trump is gone and then dither on such topics!

You’re the sane one here...GasMan. Yeesh. I would dismiss someone like that, frankly.