Were they able to find a replacement bassist for the last four shows?

None of this explains why it needs to be a yoke. Judging by the animations the same electric system would work just fine with a regular round steering wheel - it doesn’t have anything to do with it being yoke-shaped.

Nope, this truck would have cost but $5795:

They’re not far off though. I had a similar problem with my Forester’s power window - I even bought a new motor that I was going to try and install - when it turned out that applying some graphite lubricant (not WD 40) was enough to get it running normally again.

That’s interesting - I also fractured my skull, (at 19, in two indentations on kind of the top right, in a climbing fall. Huh, in 5 days it will have been exactly 30 years ago) which led to a significant change in my sense of smell and taste. Everything eventually returned to what I think is normal, apart from wood…

These rationalizations, trying to justify comically large wheels because, basically, they look cool, are ridiculous in the face of the data: a vehicle with 21" wheels suffers a whopping 10% range penalty over one with 19" wheels. 

I drove one of these for years, a 1988 cargo van (it had been part of an electrical contractor’s fleet, then a drywaller before I bought it for $1100CAD) that I fixed up as a dirtbag climber rig and it was the best vehicle I’ve ever owned: tough, fun to drive, go anywhere, sleep wherever you wanted, haul anything. The…

The built-in ring light will be a hit with TikTokkers and Influencers on the go.

I love the Flex too, but just wish it wasn’t *quite* so big. I wonder if the size turned off a lot of potential buyers?

I stumbled upon the inspiration for that ace Canoo kombi in an episode of 30 Rock last night:

Dug up a photo

I saw one of these in Nova Scotia a few years ago, at a VW specialty place in the quaint town of Waterville in the Annapolis Valley. It looked to be in better shape than this one (original paint & decals) and also had a BMW badge on the front - not sure if that was how it was sold or that was added by the owner.

Knysna’s a beautiful part of the country, and you’d just need to get it a couple of hundred kilometres down the N2 to put it on a ship at Cape Town.

My stepfather, who came from a family of dodgy mechanics in Newcastle in the north of England, told a story of buying an old car at the Carlisle auctions, for some reason unscrewing the steering wheel cap and finding a little note inside that read ‘you’re a nosy cunt aren’t you?’

It will never stop making me angry that Chevrolet wasted the name ‘Volt’ on a gas-powered sub-compact and thus were stuck with the considerably more ambiguous and literally clunky ‘Bolt’ for the car that actually runs on electricity.

That’s exactly the idea - they took the H and squeezed it into a sleek A. It’s a mission statement for the brand and an excellent logo.

From hero to Zero

Take my money

I’m disappointed that you didn’t just use the table as the shifter when it was attached. 

The C pillar has always been my favourite thing about the VW Golf; the beauty of it is that it’s a functional body panel that has been refined into an elegant, sculptural element: form follows function. The electric version, embellished with graphics, has unfortunately lost this quality. I wish they could have just…