When was the last time you thought about the Renault 5, or as we in America called them, the “Le Car,” which was AMC French for “the Renault?”

I don’t do internal repairs on automatic transmissions or soldering on PCBs. I stopped doing PCB repair because my hands aren’t steady enough for detail work anymore.

Don’t hate the Mitch, hate the game.

So it didn’t appear until 1992, but the V6 Tempo with the five speed was fun. Especially because it wasn’t mine.

Gun nut here:

Can I suggest 00 Buck instead of slugs? It’s what law enforcement uses for a reason.

The only thing I don’t like is the long bed. I want one of these with the short bed, but can’t find one at a reasonable price.

Only observation I have is that, this time they will get the rights to the music for home release.

Unless they redesign the cockpit, the driving ergonomics will still be shit. Beautiful cars, but stunningly awful to drive.

The USA doesn’t have a unified education system, but it certainly has had a partially nationally funded system since at least the 1960s. Since then, national standards have grown ever more unified. Just because you were lucky enough to have a good grounding in history (like I did, actually) just makes you lucky, not…

The US education system teaches a US-centric mythology. 

I’m an ASE master tech at a Euro specialist shop. I’ve been in the automotive profession one way or another for over twenty years. I probably see cars that shouldn’t be repaired on a weekly basis. Since leaving Sears I see many, many fewer terrifying ones, though. I do got stories, even if they’re mostly one- or…

For a fucking traffic violation.

Keep the Camry.

Balls. I don’t have HBO.

Jack Johnson has been a hero of mine since I went to Galveston, Texas for college and discovered him.

The fact that new trucks cost too much has made old trucks also cost too much.

As a white gun nut, I have one thing to say:

Fuck these classless asshats.

Conditional NP. If you can do the work yourself, you should be able to break even on this. If you’re paying shop rates, buy one that’s already usable and call it a day.

I’ll go with “win-ish,” if you like.

It’s just that “It’s a generator!” when it patently isn’t seems a strange hill to die on, given that it’s an otherwise interesting and well-presented subject.

As an English Major with a focus on technical writing, yes, English is malleable. Two l’s.

But words have definitions. Particularly nouns that name objects. And when that noun is derived from what that object actually does, there’s not that much room for redefining the object of the noun.

The bike does not generate…

Moderate doesn’t have to mean wimp. Just because you don’t agree with the distance the left wing of the party wants to move the needle doesn’t make you a milquetoast. Failing to stand up for your beliefs makes you one.