Reminds me back when “employee self-evaulations” first came out.

This one is actually almost as bad as the infamous BMW Nikasil issue. It is caused by overhardened piston rings wearing down the cylinder wall. This one’s from my car and it’s worn on both sides.

Subaru FB25 engine owners be like: Hello, welcome to the meeting. Coffee and donuts are free, back there.

“It was ultimately found that my Sonata was using a quart every thousand miles. Somehow Hyundai called this normal.”

Police are never powerless. If they aren't doing something, it's because they don't want to. 

These old bike threads are a nostalgia hit for me. I remember the YBB, unicoi and the like. In fact, I bought my dad a Trek STP 200 new back in the day. Never really got on board with the soft tail concept as they weren’t appreciably better riding than my S-works hardtail. I wonder if we still have that bike…

Can you represent your disappointment graphically for us?

Vermont has been against kei trucks for a while, certainly before all of this. The workaround is apparently using a Montana LLC like those supercar guys do.

If, like Israel, the vast majority of people are vaccinated, then the majority of people hospitalized will be vaccinated. But your chances of needing to be hospitalized while vaccinated are around 1/30th compared to unvaxxed.

except as a heavier set 6'3 individual, I can actually fit in an 86/brz

Absolutely! They are very popular with recent high-school graduates, they sign up to get on the wait list for them even. You really want a later A1 model, also need to make sure there are service records for the turbine as a bad sand logged turbine is almost as expensive as fixing a blown Porsche IMS bearing for a…

Tens of dollars of product were lost.

That would almost feed a typical college student for a year.

I don’t think I’ll read a better assessment today. The Democrats are playing chess and the GOP is playing flip the fucking board over. They’re attacking democracy on every possible front - voting, judicial, and flat out rioting. And Dems are like, “Bipartisan...”

It has no basis under the Constitution or any legitimate legal framework.”

It’s like you write for Jalopnik or something...

Great piece Patrick. I’ll refer back to this in the future. 

Finally, Jalopnik has a Good Patrick

Once you reach a certain age, pitching a tent gets harder and harder.

Subaru “improperly denied many warranty repairs, and then, more recently, secretly changed the scope of its warranty coverage without telling affected drivers.”