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Cylinder deactivation, at least on my Suburban is basically undetectable. As soon as you need power, the power is there, and you can’t even feel the switch, but I tend to get 22mpg driving a massive brick full of 7 people and their gear on long interstate trips.

It’s good to release the clutch. Keeping the clutch pressed in while at lights and stuff was how I learned a) what a throw-out bearing is and b) how to replace a throw-out bearing, vary rapidly and in that order. 

The absolute biggest problem of religion: It’s adherents can’t draw the line at themselves. “I believe in this, therefore I can’t take this medication.”

Your own personal suicide mission. 

I never ever use the car’s built in GPS software. The phone is always light years better. Android, iPhone, it doesn’t even matter. Why wrestle with the monstrosity of auto manufacturer GPS software. Also, Waze is like, po-po dead ahead, mofo!  GM can’t do that. 

Eff that. I had a Jeep Wrangler that had no cruise control. My leg would ache on long trips from being locked in one position for so long. I ran a bike shifter cable from the throttle body to a thumb shifter strapped to my gearshift. Less of a cruise control and more of a hand throttle, but it held whatever position I…

57.5K is dangerously close to Macan territory. I know which I’d prefer. 

The thing that really bothers me here is that the customer never even went back to the shop to discuss the matter with the owner. He never even gave him a chance to come to some sort of compromise or to rectify the situation.

Those vendors are perfectly happy to bid a much lower cost for a gathering that isn’t a wedding, but the moment two people say “I do” there needs to be a triple cost upcharge? The wedding tax is very real and IS bullshit and you pretending it isn’t is weird.

A medical specialty with good pay and nice lifestyle? Yeah, that’s gonna be a tooth-and-nail residency to get into. 

You’re right. I am surprised by how much they’ve improved, but sedans have improved by almost the same margin. A well-designed sedan is hitting as low as 0.22 to 0.24, where trucks used to have a coefficient somewhere up in the 0.5-6 range, newest models are more like 0.38. That’s pretty, pretty good.

Why we equate “aerodynamic as a brick” with masculinity is both weird and fascinating. Round is feminine, square is masculine, must make truck square! Form following ancient arbitrary psychologic shorthand. 

Four men, sent by the man’s mother to take him to a drug treatment program?

no bridge out sign? no barricade?

There’s a pretty well-written book on the subject:

The vast majority I see are not trail rigs but sitting on stock wheels in grocery store parking lots. Maybe it’s a pacific northwest thing, but we have a TON of them. Not as many as subaru outbacks, but a lot.

Just the sheer number of these still being daily driven is all the evidence I need.