“Am I *paid* to give a damn?”

Another explanation why Toyota ‘needs’ BYD: official rules about foreign companies requiring a domestic ‘partner’, and unofficial rules about that domestic partner being controlled by certain interested parties.

I think this guy played Trump on SNL a little too long… what he needs to believe has become his reality, and he needs it to become ours.

New rule: if you run as a Republican on the platform of ‘fixing’ Washington, you have to explain what specifically you’re going to do differently than the generations of your predecessors who were elected to do exactly that and obviously failed.

Of course, it wasn’t the *acceleration* of the NSX that Ayrton Senna helped with…

Has anyone at Jalopnik noticed the death of Frank Williams?

Don’t Jeep owners strip out the airbags before they go wheeling? When was the last Jeep that didn’t have *software*, let alone airbags?

NRA: what was that about *requiring* motorists to to carry guns, again?

A Corvette. Not because there’s much merit to it being in a Corvette, just to free up the Corvette motor to be in every single other damn hotrod that just *has* to have a ‘Vette motor in it.

Or, playing by truck rules, it doesn’t have four digits of torque and isn’t so ludicrously aggressive that it was rejected from the next Mad Max movie, so it’s  weak and girly.

You couldn’t possibly get them all to belt up simultaneously in a culture which teaches kids to actively defy common sense in the name of ‘freedom’?

We had a case near here where a Harley T-boned a RAV-4 at speed and rolled the RAV. 

So, a mechanism which allows vehicles to push a polite message to phones without the users’ permission? How many minutes before attention-craving brodozer drivers hack the system to send extremely impolite messages instead?

His next big problem is deciding which GQP gets to take him as their date to the State of the Union address.

More than two? You’re thinking… duallies? Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter 😄

Oh, they have their own accommodations for people who make too big a fuss… very *secure* accommodations.

Does this mean I can get a BMW Funny Car for the price of a couple of badges?

Presumably, the lack of control gear is either A, because serious builders will put their own ECU on it and tune, or B, because yahoos want to put carbs on it and flick the V’s to the rest of the world.

“Guys! We need to write a scene where Shuri gets trapped in the Fifth Dimension and can only communicate via Zoom!”

A classic case of a movie where you have to be on the same drugs as the cast to enjoy watching it as much as they enjoyed making it.