So I recently returned to Jalopnik after being away for a while (from the website, I wasn’t in jail) and I stories are being sourced from The Drive, written by one of the authors over there who I won’t read because he writes at a middle school level? Sigh.

I’ve done a little subbing at the middle school level, and some of those kids are SHITTY. My best defense is being Gen-X and not caring what they think or say.

The driver shortage is easy to explain. I looked into this as a side hustle of sorts, but being a bus driver sucks on so many levels. The pay isn’t particularly good given the responsibilities involved. The hours are extremely inconvenient, and the timing makes doing anything else difficult. On average the kids suck…

Gen Xer here. This has not, nor has it ever been a Gen X vehicle. Nor was the PT Cruiser, the last Thunderbird, or any of the other retro designs from the late 90s and early 2000s. They were targeted squarely at late Silent generation and early Boomers who could taste the nostalgia.

Which is ironic given that he probably has the softest hands of any living man, so his diaper changing would be the best diaper changing.

I’m sorta surprised that since Autopilot required driver interaction, they haven’t figured out an algorithm that determines that something is up with the driver, and instead of constantly and repeatedly prodding the driver or disengaging, it pulls the car to the side of the road and stops...

It’s a standard 3-speed automatic pattern, except for the choice of “I” instead of “2" or “S” for the second forward gear position.

You’re missing the point. 60% +1 would have been a much more powerful result than 3 percentage points below the threshold they were attempting to enact.

This car is not for me, but it has to be one of the better examples of the type available. I have other goofy car ideas I’d rather focus on.

My guess is “Intermediate”

For me, it’s a toss-up between burble tunes and cold air intakes. Burble tunes are just obnoxious, and most cold air intakes don’t intake cold air.

According to the ad, the odometer shows 43,000 miles but with only five barrels that’s only part of the story as it has apparently rolled over. The actual number is probably 143K.

Nice Price for the condition of the parts that would be most expensive in terms of time and money to repair or restore, the interior and exterior. The mechanicals can be relatively more readily repaired. And if the motor is toast, salvation is by an LS away.

Agreed. I have the land and the driveway, but working in my attached garage that needs to share space with vehicles during the winter is limiting. I’d take the money, build a detached garage with power, water, and a lift.

Been up to anything exciting

And I’ve been seeing R1Ts all over the place in my area, along with the occasional R1S, and one or two of the Rivian Amazon vans.

[INSERT THE ROCK CLAPPING]

The result was pretty spectacular, but it also shows what Republicans would’ve accomplished had it passed. By 3%

Saw Barbie last night with my daughters (mom is away this week at a toxicology conference, so there’s that) and my biggest takeaway was that it was funny, okay a little preachy in places if you’re sensitive to such things, and as much as I like him, Will Ferrell can ruin a movie.

The funniest thing Russell Brand ever did was call Mika Brzezinski a “shaft grasper” on live TV because she was working a water bottle with both hands while attempting to interview him.