I feel like that made sense pre-COVID, but post-COVID every time I go to an airport most of the restaurants are closed and it’s just dismal.

You know what, you’re right, I apologize. I long ago vowed to stop criticizing other people’s fetishes as long as no one’s getting hurt.

3rd gear: Anyone remember when IBM successfully defended a trademark on “/2"?

I’m hoping for a housing crash so I can afford a house.

As with anything, it depends on where you start plotting the graph.

Funny how it’s always stuff that helps low-income people that gets blamed for inflation, and the solution is always to throw more people out of work.

Good god that’s ugly. WHY?

If it’s this tall *now*, wait until people start modifying it. ;)

If they make it heavy enough it’s considered a heavy truck and they get out of some of the required safety gear, right?

The original, military-derived Hummer was incredibly wide, so they’re probably just returning to their roots. I remember the Michigan DNR got some and quickly realized they were too wide for some of the two-track roads in the state. Drivers were advised to keep the windows rolled up so the tree branches whipped by the…

I once saw a guy sitting in a Bentley in a White Castle parking lot, eating a sack of burgers, so anything is possible.

I agree, but I kinda liked the original Flat Out better than Flat Out 2. The car handling was a bit less arcade-y, and car damage affected speed and handling in ways that made longer, rougher races an interesting challenge — to really do well, you needed to baby the suspension a little in the early laps so you could…

I think it’s unfair of you to review it in this state. At least let them shoot the color coat on it first.

It’s a truck that makes a statement, and that statement is “I always wanted to be in the world of the original ‘Tron’ movie.”

This reminds me of the old Wall Street Journal policy of always explaining financial terminology the first time it appeared in an article, even if they’d done so before.

And CAT isn’t likely to be affected by any of Texas’s anti-woke legislation; they’re unlikely to divest from oil and gas, and as a company making legacy tech they don’t have to worry about scaring off young college grads who might be put off by the lack of LGBTQ+ rights. They just need somewhere with low taxes where…

Fuel cells are basically just greenwashing, and always have been. Even if you aren’t making hydrogen from natural gas (which is currently the usual way it’s done) the inefficiencies of compressing and transporting it are ruinous. Plus it’s super hard on materials; high pressure hydrogen causes most structural metals…

And many of those will go into climate-controlled storage by people hoping it becomes an instant classic due to low production.

The sloped sides really limit the utility -- you can’t put a typical cap or truck camper in there. They seem to be determined to make all the same mistakes that Honda did with the Ridgeline and add a few more.

You might be on to something there. Kind of a weird twist on the “halo car” concept.