Regarding your last sentence in the story;  Have you met Capitalism?  Ignoring death and blood in limitless pursuit of profit is kinda its jam.

Every single German engineered car with over 100K on the clock is a ND.  Every. Last. One.  The repair costs will devour you.

between the pretty high cost, the seating issues, and the alarming increase in near misses on the ground and in the air.  It will remain in this condition until a couple hundred flaming bodies come to rest in a “quiet neighborhood”.

unenforced laws are merely a suggestion.

The good news is we can grow more trees. We can’t grow a new planet, so there is that. Burying wires is a very expensive undertaking. Moreso where there is a lot of ledge beneath the understory. High voltage lines need to be encased in a vault to prevent induction leakage. Moreover, when there inevitably IS a failure,…

So many people endlessly searching for “value” might make a guy suspect no one has any money.

chicagoans are passionate about things that are associated with the city.  Da Bears, the White Sox, the Blackhawks, Lou Malnatis’ pizza.  It’s fine.  You, from wherever you are, are not required to like any of them.  When people disparage a city, a region, a state, whatever, it’s just an opinion.  You can have an…

Genny Cream is a good, cheap, hoppy ale.

this is strong evidence that a LOT of people have WAY too much money.

Humpbacked Envelope is a good band name.

The last thumper I rode was a BSA 441 Victor.  It was set up for dirt roads and such and when you squirted the throttle really hard in second, the power pulses would leave a mark in the dirt. 

carefully check the sub frames for the inevitable fatal rot.

That BMW XM looks like a lego car.  That front end is epically awful.

The  Falcon was also the genesis of the Mustang.  The OG mustang had a LOT of Falcon parts.

No more “turning a blind eye” either. There are four cameras watching the guy do the inspection.  They’re pretty serious about it.

they don’t suit because of the range. round and round we go. It needs to be cheap AND have the range. It probably happen around the time there are more charging choices.  You know, a decade from now.

That Triumph is more likely to “persevere” it’s way to leaking oil like a Nigerian loading terminal, than it is to see 50 additional years not encased in a climate controlled environment.

No town pickup here in Western Mass.  You haul your own to the transfer station or hire a hauler.  Cost to hire? about a dollar a day.  If you haul your own, you still have to pay for a sticker on your car AND a per bag charge.

Dunno where you are but here in Massachusetts there is an annual safety inspection for all cars.  If your car is more than 15 years old, you don’t have to have an emission test.  Rust holes are a fail.

If you want a maverick you’ll need to wait until the twelfth of never.