well that makes me feel better because it stood out like a sore thumb from the jump

maybe it’s just shadows, but for $150K I’d expect better fitment of the leather on the headrests.  the middle row driver’s side is a travesty

we got a diesel on our 2022 Rubicon and I absolutely love it.  shame it got canned so quickly, but the absurd pricing of diesel that started shortly after we took delivery probably didn’t help

the new bronco looks like a TEMU jeep - the horrid proportions if window height doesn’t help, but the terribly fitting soft top is the real embarrassment 

i have 22 new sworn enemies.  you and the 21 people who starred you.  this was hands down the ugliest retro car of the era, and it looks even worse today.

other than being off by a factor of 52-ish on the range, point taken

what municipality uses volvos to haul trash?

Dr. Dre’s “Let Me Ride.” Had some more cars than Nuthin’ But a G Thang, and hit hard as shit right out of the gate. “Bodies being found on greenleaf with their fuckin’ heads cut off motherfucker I’m Dre” is how the first verse ands and it just goes from there.

I have a 2012 Honda Odyssey that’s just shy of 150K miles. The power door locks on the front doors no longer work. I can hear the mechanism trying to lock, and the sliding doors and rear hatch all lock. But the physical locks on the driver and passenger door just don’t fire.  Most of the time.  Sometimes the passenger…

haha i watched that when Russia invaded Ukraine last spring and it gave me such bad nightmares I quit twitter shortly thereafter because I found myself waking up in the middle of the night doomscrolling waiting for the nukes to fly

$130 billion over the next 6 years?  That works out to an average of less than 3% of what the DoD has obligated to spend in FY23

when I bought my alfa romeo spider in college, I drove home from MD to NC for winter break via US 29 in western virginia. top down, heater on, gloves, a beanie and a scarf.

legendary “that guy”

that’s a valid opinion, but I’d argue that Stephen King is not know for endings with explicit messages of hopefulness. even something like The Stand, where good appears to triumph over evil, we learn that such triumph is at best short lived.

Frank Darabont’s first ever film was a Dollar Baby for “The Woman in the Room.” Stephen King liked his adaptation so much, he made a handshake deal for the rights to....”Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption.”

it’s not top secret.  there are wikipedia articles on the systems the Navy has around the globe for passive listening in the oceans

i gave you an inch but you’re not getting the mile. there are 24 alloy gullwings that would sell for more than the $6.2M, but “standard” gullwings “only” go for $1-2 million today.  can you get lucky?  absolutely?  but so are lottery winners.

an alfa romeo spider. near perfect balance that was always such a joy for me to take on winders in the Appalachians. they’re relatively dirt cheap, plus you’ll get the joy of figuring out why pushing in the cigarette lighter made the speedo short out

ok fine - there might be 100-200 cars in the world that would sell for more than the $6.3M you’d have from investing $18K in an S&P 500 index fund in 1962.