It was nice of Nissan to hire the stylist from AMC, the guy who brought us the Pacer, the Ambassador, the Matador, the Gremlin, all the great styling classics we know and love, wise as Odin and according to rumor having the same eye count.

I’d think that the government probably installed that camera based on some suspicion about whether or not the subject was truly disabled, it’s the equivalent of a stakeout. For a stakeout you don’t need a warrant, but the subject of a stakeout is under no obligation to assist in the observation.

It’s been established for decades that if you don’t take action to maintain privacy, the authorities are free to collect “search” without a warrant. The Alaska State Troopers used to fly over neighborhoods with a thermal camera looking for hot spots from possible marijuana growing operations, and the courts said that…

or trade in after 2 years on the 3 year lease

Can we name this Darwin’s corner? I’m watching this and some of the drivers don’t even seem to try to turn. 

200K is the new 100K. Miles mean that this car wasn’t a garage queen, it was driven a lot, enjoyed a lot, and up to the task. Price maybe a little high but give nthe condition I can NP this one. 

Worse than the Joneses-the parents. Parents who grew up when cars were good for 3 years and 50K miles on 3K oil changes. Oblivious to 50 years of vehicle longevity improvements

even the older 4.0/4.6 V8's developed over the years from the Buick aluminium V8 were terrible. The 4.6 was stretched beyond the limit of reason and the later ones were built on worn out tooling as LR knew they were getting a newer motor.

probably more than one. A friend of our rolled 3 negative equity leases into one Subaru, which she then rolled into a lease on a new one as soon as Subaru would let her. On a boring ass Subie. 

Yeah there were a few stories that began with some MTF and went from there. OK, quite a few. Too much volume inside for an effective hotbox though.

Now this is going to be against the popular flow like a salmon past the bear in a waterfall, but hear me out.

737. It was about the same age as I am. But more comfortable for the passengers when it finally got ready to go.

737. It was about the same age as I am. But more comfortable for the passengers when it finally got ready to go.

I recall seeing photos of these when they came out but hadn’t seen one in person until the Battle of the Brits a couple years ago. All I can say is that these cars are massive. The proportions say a much smaller vehicle but I don’t know if I could squeeze this into my garage through the doors, as they are only 7…

The Ford era JLR products are pretty good . Ford design and Tata built, still decent, but not too sure about Tata build and design. Pre Ford, well, leave those for the ummm, enthusiasts. 

We rented a Touran on our last trip to the UK. What a miserable hair shirt that thing is. I guess if you need to haul 7 people around in shared misery that’s the vehicle to do it in.

It’s not so much the “killing” over, it’s why should the victim be the only party at risk in this transaction? If thieves and criminals are free to do whatever they want without any apparent risk to themselves what incentive is there to stop? Not everyone wants to live in Gotham.

I was flying far too often on AK airlines MD-80's during that time period, and when the news got out about the jackscrew the MD80 got a bad reputation that it never quite was able to shake.

A lot of office equipment is designed to be the portal to buying those added features, programs and functionality that involves no extra hardware. At one time the industry was pushing to be a “solution” industry primarily with a secondary emphasis on hardware, buyers balked at this and now it’s back to selling boxes.…

Used the hot patches to fix bike tires all the time as a wee lad, then would punch a new hole in the tube by using a screwdriver to mount the tire and then do it all over again. They kind of smelled like 4th of July “snakes”