Keeping in mind that if you like the DCT and tell us that, you will bring the wrath of the “scooter” haters down upon you like a plague of locusts.

Your next car should be a motorcycle. Preferably a 1000 cc bike that will kill you so I can stop wasting my retirement reading your addictive blog.

I can’t wait to buy one of these and park it in my garage next to my Aptera.

In the mid 90s I bought an ex-military Land Rover Airportable from some guy in North Carolina and had it shipped to Alaska. We nicknamed it the Buttbomb because the gas tank was under the seat four inches from your butt. The seller claimed it was a 1967 model. Hahaha. No such thing. It was most likely a 1973 and…

Hope they’re not some ISIS-affiliated head choppers.

Flash forward 75 years, EPA invokes Clean Water Act amendments of 2052, cracks down on point-source discharges of water from hydrogen vehicles clogging the highways, requires holding tank retrofits on all hydrogen cars and proper discharge to PepsCoke-owned public treatment works for recycling of discharges to bottled…

No one is considering the real price. Yes it’s $4900 USD, but that doesn’t take into account the duty on the import. Assuming there is an EPA approved emissions plate on the vehicle for the CBP to read in English and they allow it in, compute the duty as follows. Take your exemption of $800 USD off the top. Now it’s…

Looks like what the local police use to respond to theft reports. They have a MRAP for the domestic violence calls.

So the FAA won’t let me fly my drone within 5 miles of an airport, but Amazon gets whatever it wants to disturb my peace with a fleet of drones anywhere they want. Amazon starts coming over my house I’m attaching a gillnet with breakaway thread to the bottom of my drone and going drone fishing.

Right- you go from 2015 back in time to 1973 speeds and the oil embargo the minute you cross the Snake River. Gas is so precious they have professionals pumping it for you. Last time I went through there the idiot broke the flange on my Wrangler’s filler neck. Now I take two rotopax so I don’t have to stop in that…

A Honda CRF250L, Yamaha WR250R, Kawasaki KLX250 and Suzuki DRZ400S are all dual sport bikes designed to be ridden on and off road. I’ve owned the Honda, Kawasaki and DRZ and they all came with painful seats that were fixed with an upgrade. The only other bike in this class is a KTM and its seat is even worse. Sure…

Here’s another vote for the seat concepts. Huge difference and under $200. Makes you wonder why every manufacturer cheaps out on the seat. Why is it so hard? Literally.

So maybe it is in the park. But if you stopped on the side of the road in Yellowstone to let the sheep lick your truck the Park Rangers would have you in cuffs before your tailpipe even started to melt the snow.

Once you get into bulldust it’s impossible to see. So how come these trucks don’t have something like the Dakar Rally motorcycles that warns you when you’re coming up on another vehicle? I mean if such a system fits on a bike, why not in a truck?

Probably not Yellowstone. They close the road before the snow and you can’t drive in except on a snowmobile with a guide now. My guess is South Dakota given the other photos on the pages. Blackfooted ferret is a giveaway. Also the Mountain/Praire designation fits South Dakota along with the photos of ducks.

Don’t forget the cigarettes. They always had tons of cigarettes with them those WWII soldiers. Probably add ten or fifteen pounds for that. Maybe it was the cigarettes that kept ‘em thin and malnourished.

I was selling an early 90s Range Rover Great Divide 50th Anniversary Edition. In other words a Range Rover with a winch bumper. and a special sticker. One test driver was so smelly I had to Fabreeze the whole car and apply leather cleaner. It was something straight out of a Seinfeld episode. Another test driver, a…

Your last paragraph there is a perfect Reader’s Digest condensed version of DOJ’s McNulty Memo (policy). Problem is finding someone at VW individually guilty of a crime. It’s rare to find the smoking gun in giant corporations.

EPA does go after the emissions testers committing fraud, but never the individuals. In the last few years over a dozen testers in Las Vegas got themselves felony convictions. There are cases all over the US. North Carolina for some reason seems especially tough on emissions fraud where the feds get year plus prison…

I completely disagree. My approach has always been to try and fix it myself. If that fails what’s the worst thing that can happen? You need someone to tow the vehicle to a garage and they fix it. What are you out for trying? The cost of a tow at most.