Counterpoint: There’s a difference between a media preview prototype and a test mule.

That particular example is especially egregious. It’s a sagging door. They couldn’t spend half an hour shimming the hinges? I once had a door like that on one of my cars and I fixed it in my driveway with nothing but shims cut from beer cans.

Flat body panels are deceptively hard to get right. They lack stiffness, so they bow and “oil can” into dented shapes really easily. This is why if you look at most angular production cars, like (say) a Volvo 240, you’ll see nearly all the panels have a slight curve stamped into them.

It could also go the other way; the whole angle of Holmes’ defense was that she was in an abusive relationship with Sunny, the whole scheme was his idea, and she was helpless in the face of his male aggression. She got to make the first argument and there’s a real chance that will be the narrative that sticks.

No, the privilege was that they got out from under the mandate to operate passenger trains themselves in exchange for letting the government do it on their right-of-way — much of which was originally constructed with government subsidies. Now, as usual, they want to privatize the profits and get out of providing any…

The apps will tell you where chargers *should* be, and sometimes even if the charger is the correct standard for your car, but not whether they’re occupied or even functional.

With how sparse and unreliable the charging network is, it definitely matters. Home is the only place I can be sure I’ll be able to charge.

That sounds like a hellacious trip, and potentially unsafe. I can’t drive for more than four or five hours at a time without needing a break, regardless of vehicle range.

Maybe divorce schools from athletics entirely. Professional leagues can run their own farm programs like MLB does. And we can stop having fights about who counts as what gender for school sports purposes.

I remember when I lived in WA I looked at a list and realized the highest-paid employee of the state was a football coach. It’s profane.

Yup, with all that emissions gear you can’t show your patriotism by rolling coal. This is the only truck for the true American.

Just needs a tune to turn the fueling way up, a “PRIUS REPELLANT” bumper sticker, and a “LET’S GO BRANDON” flag.

I like the antifreeze jug recycled as a coolant recovery bottle.

Here in CA I think the main issue would be the lack of fenders. You gotta have the entire tread width covered.

Yeah, and there’s a tradeoff between something bigger that will eat up highway miles, and something small enough that you can pick it up by yourself after you dump it in the mud.

That’s the thing about airplanes, you almost never see someone working one over with rubbing compound and then waxing the thing. The finish you get is the finish you get.

I have argued for this very reason that there has to be something wrong in someone’s head for them to become a billionaire. A millionaire, sure, but I can’t imagine wanting to keep working once I already had $100 million in the bank, knowing I could live a life of luxury just off the float.

I’ve always thought the trijet, S-duct layout on the Falcon 900 was cute. It’s like a baby 727.

I was in a soaring club with some guys who had a story a little like that. They imported a used Scheibe Falke motor-glider from Germany. It was shipped over RO/RO, packed neatly in its trailer. (Sailplanes are designed with removable wings for this purpose.) So far so good. It arrives and they go to check it and…

There is -- it’s the space under the seat in front of you.

I only  get annoyed about it when I’m in the bulkhead seat and have nowhere BUT the overhead bin to put my bag in. Otherwise I prefer to stow it under the seat where I can get to it easily.