But you are the exception and not the rule. Most people want to buy a car like they want to buy pretty much everything else they buy and want it either right then or with two day shipping. Waiting a year or more, which is what it’s taking in the current car buying climate, is a big ask of anyone. Add on top of that…

Ariana DeBose becoming the first openly queer woman to win an Oscar.

Blah, blah, blah. The planes need incredible maintenance. They need parts. No access to parts means existing planes will be cannibalized so fewer and fewer maintained planes can keep flying. Within three years, I bet none of those planes will be capable of safely flying—which means for the next 10 years, Russian passen…

Cornell is a great singer. His Bond song was weak. Billie Eilish can sing. Her Bond song was great. These things can all be true.

Hopefully our nuclear future is disaster-free!

With so much car content going to YouTube today I’m always happy to see new car media outlets popping up still in digital print. And with those two you already know that you’re in for a ride!

As someone who has been here for a long time (and who came in just after a big staff departure, if anyone else remembers Wojdyla et al) I have to say this is one of the best lineups we’ve ever had! Everyone has a great energy, is super creative, and good to be around.

It’s an experiment to see what happens when old “evergreen” articles are re-upped. The stuff going up should be articles that are still relevant and still have a draw.

I haven’t listened to a full album in years. I have been stuck listening to James Bond songs lately, so take this:

This week has been a whirlwind for me! Closed on a house, bought a project car, bought a motorcycle. 

1st Gear: “We will now make our vehicles larger but shittier because Americans will pay more for a large car despite it being shittier. Tiguan XL with no soft touch plastics here we come!”

Alfas rely a LOT on power from the battery (ex. brake by wire and electric power steering). I’m a member of a couple Alfa groups (I own and DD a 2018 Giulia Ti Sport Q4), and the default answer for any issue is “change the battery”. The OE batteries in the 2017s are know to have (and cause) issues that go away when…

That is the best thing Duvall has ever done, and I’ll say it, the best thing Tommy Lee Jones has ever done. 

As the cohost of Reels & Wheels Podcast, I could probably fill this whole list for you, but I’ll stick to my top three worst car movies that I was forced to endure thanks to my co-host (Love ya, James. Really.):

It’s too bad there were no other actresses he could have gotten for the part. It was always Winona Ryder or Sophia. They were, at the time, the only women of that age in Hollywood.

Stories of its unreliability are overblown and mostly centered around the Quad.

Not doing Godfather III was basically not an option for Coppola.  He was flat broke at the time and needed the money.

Yeah, I can see him still getting along well with Coppola even after III. IIRC, it was the studio’s decision to pay Pacino far far more than Duvall was being offered, and Duvall was at the point of his career where his name was big enough to know when he was being lowballed.

These “after-and-before” images only make sense if the video they restored was an old AVI file at 360p resolution or something.

No, these are not general purpose chips for the most part. Many of them are designed for specific use in a specific car part. Tesla has had some luck repurposing chips for some of their shortages, but that was likely because Tesla already designed such parts in a more modular way, and does more parts in-house. For…