I drive like 1000 miles a week, often to random places in the middle of nowhere. I don’t want to think about where I can charge, I just find a gas station and go on with my life. But I know that’s the exception, most people do just commute 50 miles or less per day which is well within the reach of most decent EV’s.

My car is green, it’s neat. Granted, my car is from 1995 so it doesn’t really factor into this.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t surprise me. The car industry is one of the most backwards industries out there, with casual sexism and racism still aplenty.

I’ve always called that movie “Top Gun: NASCAR Edition,” because the movies share so many tropes (and Cruise). It’s a ridiculously cheesy movie but I still love it. The rental car racing scene is one of my favorite parts.

Yeah they do. Arby’s has it in soda fountain form too, funnily enough.

While the 964 and 993 didn’t look quite as nice as the first-gen 911's, they have their purpose as air-cooled 911's with a bit more real-world usability. The suspension on the 964 was a considerable upgrade, going to proper springs and shocks versus the outdated torsion bars, and you had an HVAC system that was quite…

Wait until they find out about the infinite speeds in a Nissan CVT (in the short window of time before it blows up).

Wait until they find out that there are economy cars with 10-speed autos, it’ll blow their minds.

Idiots like this director get given millions of dollars to arbitrarily piss away, and yet there are so many people out there whose lives could be made better with just like $20k. Funny/sad how that works.

Great, so they can see how many times I’ve done a warranty replacement on a Torx T55 bit. Over the last 8 years or so I must’ve replaced at least 15 of em, they keep breaking. The ones from other brands break even faster, believe it or not, so at least Autozone replaces them without asking too many questions.

Oh I mean in town it’s pretty safe to do 10-15 over the posted speed limits pretty much anywhere... 50-55 is acceptable on the streets, 75-80 on the highways. Outside of town is where they start caring a lot.

Yeah, lots of small towns here in AZ do exactly that, like Florence AZ which goes from 65 to 30-35 in no time. Gila Bend and Wickenburg are the same way. Fortunately, the cops in those small towns blast their radar indiscriminately, so I’m well aware of their presence and follow the speed limits to a T if I pick up…

I’ve unfortunately seen it a lot. I knew a guy who always wore flip flops so he could take them off easily and grip his car’s pedals with his toes. Such a weird way of driving.

I don’t understand the need to take off your shoes and socks on a plane, that never made any sense to me. Maybe wear more comfortable shoes when flying? I already have trust issues with people that insist on driving barefoot, but at least that’s in their own cars where I don’t have to deal with it.

+1 for buttons.

I mean, everything about The Wolf Of Wall Street was excessive, so this just kinda fits the bill. They probably paid under $500k for it, and it could’ve been a high-mileage or salvaged example. When a movie has a $100 million budget, what’s a few hundred grand on a hero car.

Mmm, that’s got the BMW M62tu 4.4L V8. Which means it’ll need timing chain guides at some point, if they haven’t already been done. Kinda funny that the Queen was daily driving a Range Rover that was almost 100% a BMW underneath (all the electronics and navigation unit were from an E38 7 series, the transmission is a…

“I just seem to have things fall into my lap and I agree to buy them”

Glad to know I’m saving the environment when I drive my 30 year old BMW with a V8.

Yeah that’s kinda implied with owning any old BMW... I would never recommend any BMW to a non-enthusiast, personally. The only way they’re economical to own is if you can wrench on them yourself. The minute you start paying a shop to do your work it gets very expensive, fast.