I actually have to agree with you on that. Sympathy is a far better way of explaining my feeling toward him now.

Weird. Reading this actually makes me have a little respect for LeBron. Now, before this I knew next to nothing about him, but all I can seem to think of are pieces of bad press. This actually seems to be a very positive and realistic spin on his story.

Traction control can not only help keep you out of a ditch when your car is out of control, but it can make you look like an absolute hero on the track. The Ferrari 458 Speciale has a system called side-slip control or SSC, that allows you to hold big slides on the track without worry.

You also have to look at the way the vehicle is geared. A Chevy 1500 with the 5.3L engine (355HP/383lb-ft) when geared with 3.08s in the diff is only rated up to 6800 lbs. On the other end, you can still select up to 3.73 gears and that brings you up to 11400 lbs. It looks to me like Dodge is expecting this to be…

Wow. This is a great shot of the (now) Tesla plant. Back when I was in elementary school, the fourth (or fifth or sixth. Can't exactly remember) grade classes would take trips to this plant to see how an assembly line worked. It was pretty awesome at the time. I would love to go back and see the Tesla assembly line.

No, no, and no. As much as I love my voice controls for most things, they are no where near being ready yet. My friend's and I borrowed a Chrysler 300 a couple weeks ago to go on a road trip. A little bit into the trip, we realized that we wanted to stop off at a place we had heard about earlier. Unfortunately,…

Windows 2000? (or 98 or 95)

First thing I thought of when I saw "Jake."

As big of a fan of live axles as I am, you don't get things like this with IFS.

It exists on the driver side as well. I was going to say cup-holder, but the driver placement makes no sense. It could be a grab handle to get into the truck? I've seen a lot of trucks that have a handle somewhere on the dash in addition to the A pillar.

The belt-line turning up right before the bed is off-putting. Just eye-balling it, it doesn't look like it was going to line up anyway, so maybe this is better.

Athletes like Michael Jordan, Adrian Peterson, and Cristiano Ronaldo are objectively beautiful specimens, representing a kind of aspirational, evolutionary endpoint. Donovan's talent and ability appeared to come from nowhere at all. If most superstars appear chosen, then Donovan seemed a lucky mistake, a fluke who…

Every Cup I hope and pray that the US can make a good showing, and every Cup there is some unlucky nonsense that yanks us away.

At the time they were doing this, there was quite a bit of damage of both life and property because of street racing. Two people I knew personally died because of it; one went off the road and rolled their car a bunch of times, one went off the road and split their car in half with a tree. Another person flipped their…

Sorry, I guess I should have been more explicit about what I meant. It was unfortunate for the Police Department that a few Police Officers decided to over extend their duties. I thought it was pretty smart, to roll up next to people and see what they would do. If they didn't try to race, then nothing happened. Once…

The town I grew up in did a very similar thing. They had a couple of cars that were cleaned up pretty nice and looked like someone that would want to race. The one that comes to mind most clearly is a Fox Body Mustang with one of those big cowl induction hoods and fat tires out back. The windows were tinted far darker…

True. I really want to see what happened to the suspension for the front axle. The hit doesn't look that hard in the video. I have seen YouTube videos of people hitting rocks harder trying to climb up a trail. Although, I have also seen a sapling tear the front axle off of an unmodified Explorer because the driver…

Yeah, that seven minute setup time seemed rather interesting. I have an old school conventional tent with a bunch of metal poles you connect together and extend to put it up. If I have one other person helping me, I guarantee I can get it set up under five minutes. And, the tent is big enough that I can probably back…

Just a little comparison of the aftermath of both vehicles.

First time I borrowed my Mom's BMW to pick her up, I had to turn the car off, pull the key fob thing out of its hole, and hit the unlock button. For the life of me, I could not find that button. She laughed at me and pointed to it right in the center of the dash... like that placement actually made sense.