Options are not really options if they open you up to violence and discrimination. And I was referencing your statement regarding asking men to be more feminine (i.e. not allowing the option to be traditionally masculine). Nobody is asking for that. What they are asking for is the ability to live their own lives…

No one in the entirety of this conversation is asking anyone to be anything that they’re uncomfortable with. The point is making more options available, not taking options away.  Take your bad faith argument and go home.

No full size truck maker will shoot themselves in the foot and do this with their midsize, so I’m waiting on Honda. The Ridgeline’s max payload rating is 1580 lbs, so start marketing it as a 3/4 ton. Make a bunch of commercials with the neighbors all proud of their new F-150/Silverado/Ram half-ton, until the Honda…

If society was really accepting of things like this, there wouldn’t be so much violence against trans people (for the record, no, I’m not equating wearing a dress with being trans). It’s important to keep publicly challenging the idea that there is only one right way to be a man. The bell curve of acceptability will…

“Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

That battery style is nice for trucks. For any other vehicle, I’d envision it attaching to a trailer hitch receiver, and mounted to a wheeled scissor jack base for wheeling it around and lifting it. Keep it to, say, 150 lbs for a 1 1/4" receiver, or 300 lbs for a 2" receiver. Oh, and stick some big orange flag whips…

From Quincy, Illinois, hmm? Makes me wonder what those rear wheels would have done to Quincy’s roads during the brief period when they were paved with wooden blocks instead of cobblestones. Perhaps it would have fared well then. The blocks soaked up water and expanded when it rained, and piles of them would be…

Today’s Challenge: somebody tell me what Green Book is in ten words or less, so I don’t have to read a whole ass synopsis or, heaved forbid, actually watch it.

Maybe this is a good thing?  At least it’s in the news again.  I had totally forgotten that this car even existed.  Now Mercedes has an extra three months to build hype.

[NSFW] really needs to be at the top of that. Doesn’t do much good if you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to see it lol

Any criminal activity? Sure.

It depends how you define “great.” For the purpose of a book tour (selling books), it is going great. For the purpose of advancing the objective good of all humanity...not so much. His bombshell comment was stated as an opinion, which need not be backed up with hard evidence, but will still sell books and make him…

Damn right. Only exception being outright sports cars that need the rigidity. Anything up to and including a pony car should have a liftback or a proper hatch (or a barn door or tailgate).

Any idea where?  FCA and Jaguar don’t have it, as far as I can tell.

Sigh...I get the goal of freeing up console space, and I get that some people don’t like a column shifter, but damn, this is dumb.

McLaren should pull a Lotus and just make fancy suspensions for everybody else’s SUVs. Starting with Nissan, I guess, because McLaren is Renault-powered now.

My pet theory is that Honda made the profiles of the sedan and hatch so similar this time (sedan has a long cabin and a tiny rear deck, hatch has a little trunk-like bump) so that they can eventually eliminate the sedan and customers won’t blink.

Enhance.

Pelosi and Schumer both need to be replaced. Nobody who releases a statement including the words “President Trump’s naked” should get to keep their job.

Well played