2003 Ford Taurus SES with the 24V DOHC Duratec V6, going from Buffalo NY to Toronto ON & back in 2004, I think. Comfortable and fast enough to surprise me. Really easy to eat up the miles, plus it was in pristine shape. 

I wonder if the “lack of orders/interest/whatever” is also a self-licking ice cream cone in that all we hear about lately is “there isn’t any inventory/chip shortages” too? Maybe that’s a part of this story, maybe it’s not, but I wouldn’t be bothering to go car shopping these days when I hear about and see empty…

Seriously, watch any of the Jeremy Clarkson car reviews and see how he fits in things. Jeremy is (or was 6'5") and has a comparatively normal body proportion for a tall guy (we’ll just not speak about the pot belly he’s developed as he’s aged, but otherwise...).

SHIT...same here! I have to teach my kid learning to drive about this! 

I was just thinking, how pissed at the world must Brooks be to be getting into this now? He must be boiling over with ideas.

Yeah, my red flag in this is whether or not he had a wheelchair to give credence to his paraplegic claim for the police who initiated the stop. If not, then the police would be justified in assuming that he was lying/being noncompliant from the start. That makes the case way more complicated for everyone.

My skepticism is counterbalanced by specific unexplainable events from one particular on-campus residential experience. Ghosts are real.

NP but I think I’d recognize that I’m buying a potential bomb. At least it’s going to get a good scrub/shampoo & change of all consumables, and peel down that tint.

It would be interesting, if impossible to actually determine, how many musical acts (we’ll just cast a wide net over genres in general) ever performed 100% sober. 

Hey, “Walkin’ On The Sun” is still a jam. 

I’ve got family in the music business, so through them I’ve seen just a little of what you saw on the circuit (my cousin got handed a bottle of JD by some stranger backstage one night...guy literally went “great set, here you go” & walked off). The discipline to not be sucked into bad choices is really rare.

Strieber & Kunetka’s Warday, about a 1980s “limited nuclear exchange” & how it affects/devastates the U.S.

No snark, just observation...the music business is just one ass-kicking after another in terms of health, especially if people play into the whole hard partying, “eat/drink/snort/shoot anything put in front of them” stereotype. At least Steve didn’t die out there. 

Oh, the electric cars with vintage bodies from Gattaca!

Same here...that was always my first choice too. I didn’t have the Condor as a kid but I had the Firefly dune buggy.

There’s a whole mess of MASK vehicles that could qualify but I’m going with the Condor. 

I got one as a loaner when my Mazda 6 was in the shop, and it was so woeful. Nothing about it was appealing.

No, but I do remind them of how crappy they feel if/when they overdo it and that seems to remind them to self-reg. But at their ages (youngest is 10, oldest almost 17), they also have the sense and responsibility to self-manage.

This one’s much better.

I think the 200SX SE-R is probably not the car OP thought. Had the same SR20DE and 5-speed gearbox with LSD that the predecessor Sentra SE-R had, but was said to ride and handle better with lower NVH.