This problem isn’t limited to McLaren though. Car design in general has evolved into a collection of fussy details, as opposed to a cohesive whole. That goes double for most sports cars.

Yeah, but... the UK is still lousy with mid size diesel trucks, manual (brown) wagons, AND you don’t have to wait 25 years to import your dream car, so... nyah.

Ah yes, the old, no big government unless its our kind of big government?

It sucks that Trump’s administration is so willfully ignorant on, well, everything, but fuel economy standards in this instance, but isn’t it kind of a moot point considering California will still set the bar for emissions standards? Or are we going to go back to 49-state compliance bullshit?

Seriously. Using a proxy to access iplayer outside of the UK is still breaking their T&C’s and probably copyright laws as well. The only legal way is to exercise patience, and if you can’t, just torrent it. I’ve never found iplayer to be terribly good for streaming anyway.

Back before the recession, one of my friend’s was working at a mechanic’s shop who were commissioned to modify a bunch of classic American muscle for a new client. The new client had been an early investor in a certain shoe company and, now absolutely swimming in money, wanted a fleet of tasty cars.

Right now I’d be quite happy to be done with my current car, a 2003 Mazda Protege5. A dead battery should be simple to deal with, but there’s a factory-fitted strut brace in the way that I can’t get off with hand tools. Either the bolts are so rusted on no amount of penetrating spray will loosen them, or they were…

Haha, while I’m flattered, I’ll have you know I’m neither gorgeous, nor a woman.

I don’t think of those guys as posers so much as dudes who’s pockets aren’t as deep as they’d like them to be. What’s the phrase, ‘champagne tastes and miller money’?

Classic cars get a pass. I was thinking more along the lines of the STANCE NATION crowd.

No thanks. All that’s missing is FREE CANDY sprayed on the side of it.

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YES, that! Especially fake euro plates on actual American cars, like the Jeep Cherokee that formerly inhabited my apartment’s parking lot.

So, when I woke up on Monday morning I read a story about two people who made a mistake which then caused two other people to make a mistake.

I don’t like gin myself, but calling people who do garbage is a pretty stupid thing to say.

Have you tried, I dunno, good gin?

There are some people who will delight in having an inexperienced bartender. I had a jackass sneer at me years ago because I didn’t know what a Tom Collins was, and this was still a good few years before the ubiquity of smartphones, so I had to go look it up in ‘the book’. I was young and naive (19 I think?) so I…

Do you mean the one that broke down on a test drive? The one that makes 100 horsepower less than claimed? The one that we aren’t even getting as a wagon because they’re giving us a crossover instead?

Huh, didn’t know they were alloys. They were available on Polo Harlequins when they sold them in the UK in the 90's though.

Yep, and you could option the Polo version with those god-awful teddy bear wheel covers.