I’ve seen soda explode into instant brown icy foam, it’s an amazing thing to watch really. And keeping it in a snowmachine for a nice cool refeshing drink later dooesn’t work very well at all.

At the Detroit Auto Show GM was giving rides in the Hummer. Our driver reeled off the stats, 1000HP, 11,500 torques, motorcycle quick and.....weighs half as much as an Abrams tank. Might as well put treads on it. And he said it might need new tires after the show. 

It’s 11F in my garage and even colder outside, I’m hard pressed to check my oil and fill up the washer fluid.

These haven’t gotten any better looking over the last couple decades. The mind knows the performance is there but looking like an oversized Cavalier does it no favors. I’ll take my $18K and go shopping for a used Hemi Challenger instead, so I can turn around when I leave it and admire it rather that tolerate it.

And I would need that for less than $30K too, please. Guaranteed, in winter and in a rural area in case I did need to get a bit of liquid dinosaur.

Get back to us when it will do a 585 mile day on the interstate at 80 mph.  I’ll even allow for a 10 minute fillup in the middle. 

The products of the Indian Motorcycle Company are better than HD in pretty much every way and tend to cost less. The Scout is a fun ride, and the Roadmaster is what a GeezerGlide and a Gold Wing should be. And then there are those bikes made in India. Or the British bikes made in Thailand. It’s all getting crazy out…

I do like a British style twin, my present bike is a Triumph Tiger and as I get older I find swinging a leg over is getting to be a chore, and it might be time to swap the Tiger for an Enfield. Sure I could get a Bonnie but the cost of a Bonnie is a bit high. RE is making a lot of sense these days.

Japan wasn’t a communist nation using slave labor and selling organs. You want civilized markets you should maybe not be barbaric.

or as we called them “brodie bars” for their utility and efficiency for spinning bordies in icy parking lots or frozen lakes.

Windex never seems to work for me, mostly smears it all over the windshield. Vinegar in water and a new microfiber for me.

So who is doing the maintenance on all these 737's lately? We probably shouldn’t leave it to the Explorer Scouts any more.

When I lived in AK, studded tires were legal and I studded motorcycle knobbies and rode all year round. I wasn’t the only one, we had a ADVrider group and we went for a ride on Wasilla Lake on Boxing day in more snow than cars would put up with. Never dropped a bike in the snow or ice.

We were looking into buying one of these and after doing my due diligence research on it decided hard no. Drivetrains is not the issue, it’s mostly the air suspension and general Mercedes-ness of it.

someone should see if they would name a tire “Maypop”

A building from the 70's is somehow a historic part of the story of Detroit?

I’m not a big fan of the Chinese tires in general but the naming of them is gold. Who wouldn’t want a nice set of Tormenta tires on a BYD Dolphin?

I guess you could buy this as a time capsule but for $7500 I’d rather buy the cars this thing was meant to compete against, and by compete against GM meant guilt you into buying the American interpretation of this class of vehicle. Malaise era brand engineering at its worst. Might be a NP for those who weren’t there…

I have a 79 Chevy K20 that’s been bankrupting the family at the gas pump since it was new. A couple years ago I decided to swap out the quadrajunk for a FItech EFI system, figuring that surely it would give me a bit more fuel economy.

It’s that lens that bothers me as well. That gives me “screw this I surrender” vibes that make me wonder what else is hiding in those big red flanks.