#notallvalets

That’s actually pretty cool. I don’t know how practical that UAZ style canvas top would be but otherwise well done.

You just THOUGHT it was to be called the 124 Spider

*One gear short of “D” is “N”.

#1 is just false. The car moves noticibly faster going downhill in neutral, the transmission drags if left in gear. If you go down the hill faster you will require less acceleration (gas) at the bottom which does save gas, assuming there isnt a stop sign there. Doesn’t mean you should do it, but the reasoning is just…

Lexus also has cool sequential indicators on the new RX. But the US DOT requires that the indicator light be a certain minimum sq-in area at all times. Each of the Mustang’s vertical bars meets that minimum area, but the Lexus and Audi versions do not.

But - it is so monumentally ugly.

BMWs: Making even the suave and sophisticated James Bond park like an asshat, diagonally across multiple spaces.

There were two, Goldeneye and not Goldeneye.

Wrong movie. Still a great chase.

and tinted tail lights are a liability waiting to happen

See the early 20th century. Roads were being built by various private organizations to serve the needs and wants of bicyclists and motorists.

infrastructure can be a for-profit private enterprise, it just has to be an actual private enterprise and not involve government. The moment the political system becomes involved is when it becomes something entirely different. A mere tool to rent-seek or otherwise extract money from the people.

Idiots. Attaching the chain to a point higher than the hitch creates an upward force, reducing traction. They should have attached the chain lower on the door.

Anybody else really, really, really want a Nano? I find the idea of a cheap-ass, pleb-level, rear-engined, air-cooled, stick-shift, intelligently-designed, modern (no Beetle for me) microcar AWESOME.

Bikes are typically mid-engine, RWD too!

I find this doubly funny because what about a point-of-sale system is at all “Xtreme”?

It’s like how people outside the retail industry aren’t used to the abbreviation for “point-of-sale” as a term for the software. So when my last job had software called “XtremePOS”...

This seems like Steve Lehto territory....

I will pick up a rental car from National at least once a month. I will pick anything over a 200. After getting stuck with the POS Sebring/200 far too many times, it’s just not worth the risk.