Dissed in the Malibu. 

Uber is the literal worst, but it’s baffling to me that actual cab companies have found it so hard to compete. All it takes is an app, guys. A decent app.

I mean, first, you have to understand: In 1991, 300+ hp was A LOT of horsepower. It’s easy to lose sight of these days, when we all sort of laugh at how quaint the Fox 5.0 was with 225 hp (or 215, or whatever), but the Fox 5.0L had pretty healthy output for the time. The Taurus SHO made people giddy with 220; a DSM…

The front 3/4 view is the best one, by far. Will the NSX actually drift like that, from the factory?

I mean, why do any of us buy performance cars to sit in traffic jams?

It was, in fact, the P body. Or the P car. My GM engineer uncle at the time thought this was incredibly funny. 

If I’m looking for a relatively inexpensive way to do DEs, I could do a lot worse than this. 

I mean, so many other VW subsidiaries have won. Why not Lamborghini next?

I’m holding for for the Seat Cupra LM, though. 

It was just worn down, all the way. 

How many buyouts has GM had since then?  Let’s see, 36 years...so, 72 or so? 

Fingers crossed it stays that way for you. 

They covered mine, but I was still in warranty and it was somewhat touch and go. Honestly, in your shoes if you’re looking to keep the car I’d probably upgrade, because my guess is that the stock clutch will do the same thing again.

I mean, partly it’s that stuff—I found myself missing the handbrake, bizarrely, and all the parking/lane keeping stuff was more bothersome than helpful.

Yeah...but the big appeal to me about the Golf R was that it was available in a stick. So few cars these days are. It really sucks that they specc’d such a shitty clutch for it. 

I wish I’d kept my Mk. VI, which in retrospect was perfectly fine and which was a better all-around car for me than the Mk. VII turned out to be. 

I had one of those, a 2017 which I praised on this site and elsewhere. But despite being box-stock, it needed a new clutch at 16,000 miles...something that VW Vortex tells me is not terribly uncommon. FWIW, I’ve been driving a stick for 30 years at this point and haven’t ever had a similar issue, including with my Mk.…

This is 100 percent the truck sibling to the 6000 SUX. 

Quick, get Leno on the phone! 

“a better approach would be to start with heroes who really try to be heroes and not people who are so cartoonishly evil.”

But that’s the titular Boys, no? They’re trying to do good but they (quickly) end up as literal murderers. Hughie seems to enjoy killing Transluscent, on some level. To me, they kind of don’t do…

The other thing about Homelander is that he isn’t really an allegory for a person—he’s an allegory for an entire country. When you think about him as a stand-in for the United States and the way it conducts foreign policy, his behavior/characterization makes a lot of sense.

That’s especially true in the zeitgeist of…