A battery powered grinder is pretty cheap these days, or a can of spray paint.  

This series is proof that a boat is a hole in the water you pour money into and few things are more expensive than a cheap boat. Good luck sailing that thing in ocean waters. 

I'm sure it seemed really clever at the time.  Every Columbo plot has a murderer who thinks they are clever, and Columbo hoodwinked them into confessing.  

Yeah, I would buy a small truck to replace my big truck, but I’d still be stuck making payments, versus my current old truck I bought for cash and leave sitting for weeks. This keeps me daily driving the crossover and monthly driving the pickup 

I'm unsurprised,  this was a boondoggle from the get go so cutting corners on worker safely to get more money is no surprise.  Las Vegas should have built rail or a trolley bus instead of a disco tunnel,  but colored lights look cool. 

A truly small truck is blocked by the EPA “footprint rule" that mandates ridiculously high gas mileage. They exist elsewhere so put this in the same trash can as the chicken tax 

I'm surprised wood lites didn’t get mentioned since they were the height of cool in the thirties 

OK I will stick to human power and save money 

Wake surfing looks cool but I don't want to shell out the equivalent of my house on a boat, trailer, and truck.  I'm quite happy kayaking mountain lakes in my $300 kayak tossed in my $3000 truck, which leaves money for my house,  car , bikes, and road trips. 

Nifty but I probably need a bigger car for my size 12 feet and size 46 shoulders. FWIW Westfield des a store bought version with a Suzuki Hayabusa.  Personally I'd like a rotary powered car. Somewhere in the archives is an article and in-car video of a rotary powered Sprite. 

What the Del Sol should have been.  

Yeah LBJ died in 73 so Fiat was a major presence then

The ND Miata is a miracle of weight saving that only Mazda has pulled off. VW has only added weight and complications over the years so I consider it unlikely that a fourth Scirocco will  be lighter than the third generation, much less the lightness of the A1 platform of the 70s and 80s.  Making it a BEV is more…

That's so serious WTF and failure to grok. Especially when I compare Hannah's income and expenses with my son's.  He's 25 and an engineer and his lifestyle is rust free David Tracy,  a shared rental house and several cheap beaters 

but, but,  how can we make $15,000 per unit profit like we do on the $50,000 EV?

I want to believe but the last Scirocco didn’t make it to the US and if it happens this one is also likely to remain forbidden fruit.

That's what I expected,  16-17" wheels seem to be driven by larger brake rotors, to stop heavier cars but anything over 18" seems to be looks or bragging rights.

I have trouble understanding cars on wheels bigger than the average Kenworth. I grew up thinking 13" wheels were normal and 15" was big. Sure they look good in renderings but what possible engineering benefits do 22" or 23" wheels have?

A cautious NP since it is cheap for condition 2 but expensive for condition 3 which is about a $25k spread.

The 3800 V6 is a shining beacon of hope that GM sometimes gets it right