Related: The Opel Vauxhall Calibra. A great looking coupe that used the same platform as the Saab 9-3, 9-5 and Saturn L-series so parts aren’t an issue. Basically off the shelf Saab net and GM parts counter.

Just to let you know, you can already bring in a Lotus Carlton! They made 950 cars, all Imperial Green and made between 1990 and 1992. So 100% perfectly legal to bring over. There are a few already here. And I WANT ONE!!! 

I have an R100RS that a prior owner made look like an S. I’ve further refined that so it’s more complete (he made some questionable choices and I’ve remedied shortcuts).

Fully agree, hence my final statement that I wasn’t trying to say the guy isn’t to blame. But I still think it’s a bit disingenuous to call it “hit and killed”. I’ve got the feeling that every reader that hasn’t heard this story, will think that she was innocently riding her bike along the road when he hit and killed…

I saw the flick. Compared to the American Godzilla/Kong movies, at least the Japanese know how to put human characters in a monster movie that we care about. As opposed to the American characters that are just there to stitch the monster destruction sequences together.

“The Strange Last Voyage of David Crowhurst” is one of the best sailing reads ever written, IMHO. 

we all know this number is down from a few years ago. David leaving did that. 

The is absolutely *nothing* that wasn’t 200% intentional about footprint-based CAFE. 

The law of supply and demand. They did make small cars. They weren’t profitable because:

Taking bets on how long it takes to unlock a stadium with a USB plug and not set off the alarm because a critical alarm component was left out for cost savings.

Yes but that’s considerably less fashionable and conspicuous.

Yeah, this is the Mad Max equivalent to really shitty steampunk where the “artist” glues a bunch of gears that don’t connect to each other or anything else onto something and spray paints it copper. Such low effort and stupid.

At least with BMW turn signals, if they don’t work, nobody will ever notice.

Sorry, 10 meters is nothing when firefighting.... It won’t even get half way into a burning building... The extension needs to be at least 30-40+ feet, with more linkages to actually get around tight buildings.

Huh? The 71-76 Custom Cruiser is a B-body. Unfortunately they were not quite as long as a Suburban. At least not a 73+ Suburban, according to Wiki.

worth pointing out that Private Jet flights are on the rise and is forecasted to DOUBLE by 2026. source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/29/2733696/0/en/Private-Jet-Charter-Services-Market-Size-and-Share-Analysis-Growth-Trends-and-Forecasts-2023-2028.html

It sounds like someone trying to describe a Fiat 500e over the phone, but without specifying any proportions, and the person writing down the nodes wrote it as if it was a full sized SUV

Obviously read the whole story if you’d like but let me distill the whole thing for you; Bird is/was an app-based gig hustle created solely to go public via SPAC and make its founder(s) and initial investors rich, passing off costs and losses to people who did the actual work and the average Joe who bought the stock.…

She learned this from watching Breaking Bad!

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me