you can’t just wave your arms about and say they don’t matter.

You think middle eastern people are dark skinned.

Uh-huh, I don’t - but VW, Mercedes, & the others which are implementing these systems, do understand. It’s only a matter of ti...

Its look was derived from the Range Rover (and by extension: the Mini; and by generalization: 1960s British 2-box design cues), so this isn’t a matter of opinion or taste: it looks fantastic; in all its iterations. Sure, question the questionable chrome trim. But the basic layout is timeless.

Found this:

R744 is acceptabler…

This is a good point, but consider that high pressure systems are simpler to manufacture with more reliable manufacturing, and with better coupling systems. The other thing with CO₂ is that it matters less if it leaks (it was in the atmosphere before!) so those systems don’t have to be quite so leakproof as the…

it made me realize how many idiots and flakes he must deal with every day

Wait, now he is your father?

They give their domestic market the cool stuff. But I guess that’s why we have Mustang, Camaro, Challenger. Auz has V8 Utes and sedans.. or used to. Euro gets their punchy hatchbacks.

Daww! I just wanna...

It’s hilarious how they got the door misaligned by about three foot too far forward.

By god 2020 Q1 went by quickly!

I realize I only stopped reading BI when they were advertising at me waaay too much. The advertising bods at GMG were incompetent enough that they did it gradually enough for me to block each piece... the irony being that BI probably advertizes way less today than GMG tries (and fails) to...

Something to do with a few rancid commies and mobsters infiltrating the unions in their early days and never really recovering since but even the good ones are tainted with the same negative view and the US is universally right-of-center even when they say they’re “left wing” or even “socialist” they’re nothing of the…

Again? Filthy bugger... who’s gonna mop it up this time? I’ll rub his nose in it...

I just have a realistic world view. If you think it’s bleak, you should hear the religionista. They have this Rule #1 that goes (get this)

I’m relating why a couple of very different specific people in my life decided that

Uh-huh, so “reverse racism” ... wow

Dude. He had a crappy Pug. Accord will suit him fine.