So, we had a trucking company send a rookie driver–also young enough that his brain may not be done maturing—out with poorly maintained equipment on a challenging and dangerous route. I hope the company at least faces civil liability that blows right through its insurance policy limits, because otherwise this driver…

A niche within a niche vehicle, probably a noisy and horrendous ride on normal roads, and not insignificant miles. Good luck with that. ND.

Same. Unfortunately, in this case I had too much business stuff to carry in additional to personal stuff. It was almost 25 years ago, so a lot more paper.

So we’re really doing this? I thought Elon’s fever dreams would finally run into cold, hard reality with the Cybertruck, but I guess he’s pushing through. Oof.

It’s getting more human all the time, it’s learned target fixation.

Frankfurt, where luggage goes to die. Once on a business trip to Monaco (I know, rough life), I barely made my connection in Frankfurt, and my luggage did not. They tossed it on the next flight, and I waited and waited at my hotel (probably the worst in Monaco) while the cold I had been incubating slowly blossomed.…

That’s a loooot of proms and weddings to earn your money back, not even considering the upkeep on a Benz versus a Town Car. And please, just lose the saggy mesh pockets on either side of the table. Scissors are cheap.

I barely passed Home Oconomowocs, and I can see that’s a bad deal.

I did this once when my ’88 Horizon was encased in ice. The only portal with enough heft to break free with an upward pull was the hatch. So in I went, over the seats, and kicked the door open from the inside.

As if US trucks are mostly lifestyle vehicles.

Aside from the neat bed with flip-down sides–which seems like it should be an option for every pickup that wants to be a serious work truck–this looks to be an objectively miserable vehicle to live with day to day. Maybe if you’re in a climate where you don’t need AC, and you never venture off local roads,…

I’m not the first one to point out that what Tesla markets as a cool, minimalist vibe is often just penny pinching. They’re building to a price point so they don’t end up charging supercar prices, and something has to give. Or many things. I wonder how much they’re saving on the yoke steering wheels. Easily a third…

That interior is, as my daughter might say, low effort. Dangerous, really, because I would fall asleep every time I got behind the wheel. I see absolutely nothing desirable about this car. ND.

I rode once, fetally (I hereby declare this a word), in the back of a co-worker’s Geo Storm. That gets my vote.

Yeah, that top...not terrible, but I would expect better on a Bentley. I guess it’s really just meant to be seen with the top down. You have other cars to drive in the rain.

He’s on a secret mission for his buddy David Tracy.

An innovation that never caught on: DKW experimented with steering by thick, exposed cords of spider silk attached to the wheel hubs.

There are certain cars that can go one of two ways by virtue of their depreciation curve: Lovingly maintained family heirloom for the first and only owner, or bad financial decision(s) for the subsequent owner(s). This is an example of the latter path. ND.

The meat wagons catered to a variety of tastes...Mr. Sof-T-Bone, and for the more hardcore, the Good Humerus truck.

I’ve never seen the point in this kind of truck. A perfectly unsatisfying compromise between utility and performance (in anything other than a straight line). And with this one, a significant portion of its “useful” life already gone. Hard ND.