BaT is such a weird place these days. If you had told me a few years back that you were going to create a site where people would come and routinely (it not exclusively) pay above market for cars that they often don’t even have a chance to see in person, I would have had my doubts.  This doesn’t feel sustainable…

“what incentives do they have to send doses over here”

Worth noting that plain old aluminum isn’t super fun to cut with abrasives anyway because it’s so gummy that it loads them up and soon you’re smearing aluminum instead of wearing it away.

Nick Cannon says something that Viacom doesn’t like on his podcast, which most of the country probably never knew about.

I like this. I have heard arguments for unbundling police roles and I find them really compelling. Like maybe the vast majority of police interactions should be people who know how to reason and deescalate, instead of power-tripping authoritarians and adrenaline junkies who’ve watched too many cop movies.

Don’t know about the lift bolt, although I have heard that the achilles heel had to do with the oil pump fragmenting if you over-rev it (like skip a gear on a downshift).

I had the Vibe GT that you are talking about. Great car except for the clutch and the gear spacing 1-2. The engine was dead-reliable, even though I liked to run it out.

I’m delighted that the culture and powers of the police are getting some scrutiny, but taking away one source of cars seems like a dumb and inefficient gesture (although yay if they don’t get to spend more of my money on spanking new cruisers with glitzy wraps). Instead of focusing on the money and equipment they need…

They don’t give us much to go on, but I would guess fuel lines aging and cracking.  It has happened to me before, and some vehicles are particularly prone.  Really, this seems like a pretty decent life for non-metal materials constantly soaked in fuel.

I drove a rental Avenger once.  It was God-awful.  I’ve certainly driven cars with uninspired handling before, but that one was repellant.  Super agrarian and clunky, zero steering feedback.  Yuck.

FCA, pls PM me for address.

Did he say “this small Chrysler”?

Do we count these, or do they have to be a celebrity first?

As someone who grew up in Chryslers, this doesn’t surprise me at all.  That’s part of why I was a bit guarded in my praise.  I thought about buying a Grand Caravan or a Routan a few years ago, but my skepticism and an internet search on reliability saved me from what surely could have been a great deal of pain.

Seems a shame. I have rented a couple recently and they were fantastic for hauling stuff around the country. My wife and I drove one leg solo in a Santa Fe packed to the roof, then put the same stuff in the back of a Caravan with our two kids and had probably 6-8 inches of headspace.  Not a sophisticated vehicle, but…

Now, obviously that cost will be significantly decreased with the new regulations mandating teams spend no more than $145 million starting in 2021.

Porsche has long been associated with turbocharging. In fact, pressure cooker Porsches go back all the way to the ‘70s with the killer 930 and less-than-killer 924 turbo. The late ‘70s and early ‘80s really were a golden age of turbo cars as many manufacturers suddenly saw a fairly simple way to bring back…

Quitting FB/pulling advertising because it’s unpleasant and soul-sucking is great. Trying to solve social problems by banishing the voices you don’t like is dumb, un-American (in the real sense of the word, not the rah-rah crying eagle sense), and most importantly counter-productive. Not one racist is going to…

Good. The only way to prevent this from happening is to buy all the vehicles and keep them. They need you, David [”Arms of an Angel” plays]

Have we learned our lesson about ever selling a vehicle?