Very early Gen X so high school and college was the 80s and the cars,we wanted were the VW GTI, the Fox body Mustang, and the XJ Cherokee. The cars I drove were a Volvo 164, and two VW Sciroccos. 

It may be regional thing but in the NYC are a lot of Guidos had G body Monte Carlos or Cutlass Supremes, and more than a few had the sheep in wolf’s clothing Camaro RS. When I started riding motorcycles in 1990 I also noticed the sub type riding Suzuki GSXRs with neon colored windshields,  loud pipes and bad boy club…

Sideways on dirt at full throttle is living its best life. 

Although I don't consider a Tesla Model Y a truly great car, Tesla Road Rage Guy is truly horrible  https://jalopnik.com/tesla-road-rage-guy-s-victims-feel-his-5-year-sentence-1851004757

ND, if I'm going to risk BMW 5 series ownership it's an E39 with suspension perfection, or the classic E28

I initially interpreted this as a woman driving an Amish buggy crashed it. This is still pretty weird even with the Toyota crashing into a buggy,  and  identical twins in similar cars.

Any performance car with a burble tune, the whistle tips of this decade.

Buried power lines make sense where density makes it cost effective, and new construction is the easiest place to do it. Every place I’ve lived in Oregon was built after 1975 and has underground utilities. The neighborhoods I lived in in New York were built pre WWII and had overhead wires.

I am unsurprised that one of the poster children of sprawl is a leader in percentage or area devoted to parking the cars it was designed for. 

Yes, that’s why I moved to Bend, along with the better MTB trails

Portland International Raceway has bicycle racing on the road circuit on weeknights,  MTB racing on the motocross track and cyclocross in season.  Being Portland I've seen a guy bring his bike to the track on a cargo bicycle and people riding to races with spare wheels in backpacks.

I'm so glad I don't have a "real boat". I can hand carry our kayaks to the water while our car stays in the parking lot. I also don't have to register a boat or trailer or pay any other fees because 10' is below the threshold for a marine invasive species tag

The ideal boarding system reminds me of the physicist joke "imagine a perfectly spherical cow"

Closed roads make great trails. Leif Ericsson Drive in Portland was originally a road for planned houses and is now the central trail in Forest Park and Old Highway 20 is now part of the Horse Ridge trails. We also get seasonal roads, Crater Lake and McKenzie Pass have a couple of bike only days before reopening in…

It's a general observation based on Tucson where sun is a big problem. In Portland the fancy suburbs are to the West because of views and I spent most of my years reverse commuting further West to Hillsboro. 

The serious answer to 2 is that the optimum shape for a bicycle frame is a triangle hence the high top tube. This was also why old BMX bikes had top tube pads and stem pads to reduce the effects of what mountain bikers called Wang Chung.

I can see the logic, in the same way the Eastern suburbs often developed faster and cost more than Western suburbs because going West in the morning put the sun at your back instead of in your eyes.

I have seen trailer mounted water tanks for dousing EVs as an official product. 

I’m fortunate to have a concrete driveway and late 80s Craftsman 3 ton jack stands I will literally trust with my life. I do use ramps but too much of my up in the air work requires wheel removal. Fortunately a lot doesn’t require getting under the car. I do keep scrap wood around for supporting Jack’s and stands on…

Whatever happened to sane stuff like leftover beet juice which was both benign and effective.  This sounds like something Montgomery Burns would think up to make toxic waste profitable.