Rolls Royce makes more than just aircraft engines.

Correct. Fun history - Rolls-Royce the aerospace firm owned the rights to the name and licensed it to the car company when it was spun off as a separate entity. VW bought the car company, but not the rights to the RR name. The aerospace company then licensed the name to BMW for use on cars. So VW got a factory and the…

It was kind of a mess. The original Rolls-Royce car builder’s successor in interest is Bentley Motors Limited division of Volkswagen AG. Vickers owned Rolls-Royce Motors and put it up for sale in 1998. BMW was the expected buyer as then already supplied engines and other parts to RR, but BMW was outbid by VW. VW…

If you hit another vehicle when you’re changing lanes, that’s still your fault, regardless of what kind of vehicle it is. Especially if it’s slow traffic, why the hell aren’t you checking to make sure it’s clear?

brown longroof with 4 speed? No? Has to be a Volvo 240 and not a Pinto? Yeah you’re right.

“there’s still a lot of appeal here”

Bonus: double the fuel...FOR FREE!

Speaking as a millennial parent, I would LOVE to give my kids some of these outdated experiences that were considered normal 30 years ago. I blame the boomers (of course) who had it so good that they had nothing better to do than legislate their subjective morality into every aspect of parenthood. Yes, there is a risk…

“mitigating the need for physical tie-downs.”

You just described my childhood to a T.  The Grand Marquis wagon didn’t come along until I hit high school, but cross-country in the back of Dad’s truck was a core part of my childhood (as was losing my favorite General Lee Matchbox car through the body/bed gap.

Best facelift on a SUV:

Amazing how many people have upvoted this comment. Over 2 years on, over 1 with vaccines and still too many people don’t know how vaccines actually work. For the OP and the so far 11 people who upvoted this...

So your immune system contains several layers: initial and temporary antibodies and then and more…

A big dumb fuckin’ high-performance pickup truck or SUV. American, Euro, whatever. Pick any one, fuck them all. Ugly, inept handling compared to the same drivetrain in a regular car, oversized, overweight. 

Chicken Tax!!

I have often thought something like a swappable smaller 30kWh or so “brick” that everyone agreed upon would be prefect. Sure you can make the fit work great for 60% of your battery, but this “brick” is a known format.

One challenge gets to the voltage, where eventually they will range from 450-900V architectures so it…

I would be first in line for a PHEV Ridgeline

As an East Coast resident who takes a lot of road trips, my answer is “any regional fast food chain that isn’t in my area”. Culver’s, Taco John, Del Taco, Whataburger, Taco Time, In N Out, Jack In The Box. Anything I can’t get locally.

It’s Sinhala, or Sinhalese, the most used language in Sri Lanka.

That’s it... I’m calling Honda’s smaller CUVs the Hervey and the Cervey from now on!

I was hanging out in my garage one night. I looked at my GL1500 Goldwing making 100 horsepower and my 69 Beetle making about half of that. Both are 1500cc flat 4 engines. The gears started turning in my mind. I started looking online for a good donor Goldwing. Then, I decided to Google how feasible that swap would be.…