From my purely anecdotal experience in west Michigan, the problem isn’t so much people speeding. It’s the combination of people going anywhere from 55-90 on the same highway.

I don’t get the styling of this at all. All the close up shots look nice, there’s some pleasant swooping lines, the little heritage details. Then someone dropped that giant rectangular fairing that looks more like the front end of a suv than a motorcycle on top of it.

For a relativity modern daily driver 100,000 miles is nothing, but it does seem to mark a drop off in resale value. Learn how to do standard maintenance like brakes in the driveway (if possible) and keep it for another 50,000+ miles.

Not even close. Toyota has been selling reliable 4 door cars that get around 50 mpg for the last 10+ years.

There’s no point in being friendly about this, you’re a fucking idiot.

It wouldn’t take much movie magic to make that sound way more satisfying .

Need it entirely irrelevant in most car purchases, it’s all about want. The vast majority of explanations for why a person needs a truck, suv, or crossover are bullshit. It would bother me far less if their drivers were a little more self aware and said that they just wanted them.

Ahh, the classic “I’m not evil, I’m stupid” defense.

Different engines, same category. If someone is looking at one of them they’re likely to be cross shopping the others.

It’s a Toyota ecvt which is possibly the best of it’s type on the market. They drive perfectly smooth so you won’t spill any scotch on the back seat. Anyway, the people buying these don’t care about what kind of transmission it has, they have other cars for that.

Someone doesn’t get it. Sure you could buy a much higher performance car for the same amount. But if you’re just being chauffeured around the big city what’s the point?

As a BMW owner, go for the Goldwing. You don’t want to be 500 miles from nowhere and trying to find parts.

Holy crap that’s a big bike with a not that big engine. For comparison A K1600 is doing 160hp and 120lb.ft and a Goldwing is 125hp and 130lb.ft, and they both weigh 100lbs less. I’m sure it gets down the highway with no problem whatsoever, but still.

Opinions about Harleys are so odd, people will defend their recent crop to the death, yet at the same time there’s folks like my father in law who were riding them in the 60s that think their current line up is pure garbage.

I’m probably wrong, but I imagine that if they charged $5000 less and called this a Buell it could sell reasonably well.

It’s a damn shame that in the US at least most people insist that their cars, (and phones, appliances, etc). be some brutally boring color. Maybe these will show people that even if your car is some lame grey green color a pop of white looks really nice.

I totally down with the idea of lane splitting. But it relies a lot on car drives not being jackasses (bikers to, but cars enjoy relative safety). Considering my experience on both my motorcycle and bicycle, if lane splitting were legalized in Michigan I wouldn’t do it for at least a year because I’m sure someone…

I don’t understand the blinker modules at all. Just hold the stalk at the detent for an extra 2 seconds when you change lanes, no extra hardware required. The triple blink is somehow worse in every way.

I’d wager that he’s spent the vast majority of his time sitting in meetings and not doing much hands on design work for at least the last several years. The people replacing him have probably been far more involved in their recent output than is publicly known.

With how naming stuff in that city works it’s a surprise that the airport doesn’t have DeVos slapped on it