Last month I received bill from an automated tollway in NY. Haven’t driven in NY since 2017 and never once in a car registered to me nor on a tollway, so that was a surprise! Opened up the letter to find a photo of a moped with some random NY state plate, billed to my 1988 Mercedes with an Ohio vanity plate. Point…

All comes down to how easy it is to get a long distance car on short notice for road trips. Around town, my Fiat 500e is more than enough range except for the farthest away errands on the coldest days, but the ~10 times a year I drive 2-5 hours away I have to trade cars with family or rent. When my ex and I were…

to be fair, the airline makes no money and often even has losses on coach fares, all the profit is in the first/business class. Like far too many industries, it’s a lot like “free to play” games. The model is attracting enough whales to pay the bills. Hell, most years the other two major US airlines lose money as…

As a prior owner of a Caddy with Kona Brown interior, that’s so much more the selling point than the Biden connection. Kona Brown is possibly my favorite modern interior and I hate how hard it is to find anything close to as appealing on other cars. Why there aren’t more brown interiors I’ll never understand! 

GTV6 but no Milano/Alfa 75? I’m hurt. Really nothing at all better about a GTV6 than a V6 75 or Milano. Better shifter, more modern interior, available with a LSD or 3.0L Busso. Only thing the GTV6 really has that the Milano can’t touch is official Callaway Twin Turbo models (have heard of but ever seen that there…

The issue with your proposal is that a fast 128 or 256GB card would cost far far too much. Basically to get speeds fast enough to remotely compare to the internal storage of these systems you’re talking CFexpress cards, which go for $80 and up for a 128GB card. Meaning the price of a modern game on Memory card would…

Definitely! I love F1 TV’s back catalogue (and the fast race/season recaps too, watching the whole season is a huge commitment time wise!) and a few times a year go back and re-watch a badass season. Lots of times it’s the first time I’ve seen the races even for eras I was following the sport as when I lived on the US …

Lol, I wasn’t even thinking about spygate when I brought up 2007, just the careers of Lewis and Fernando. Best thing about Max winning so much is it’s finally starting to signal the end of the era that exists heavily in the shadows of spygate and crashgate. Like Massa might still even get some sort 2008 Champion…

I didn’t say Max would win 10 in a row or be dominant in equal cars, just that he would challenge for and get the occasional win in multiple of the 2023 cars. If Red Bull had this exact car but had like Checo and Albon driving, decent but not champion drivers, Max would steal a few wins in half the cars on the grid,…

All fair points. It’s almost like F1 is a niche sport too. Trying to make it as big as football or something is a mistake. It’s just not possible. You can go toss or kick a ball at home, only a very few dedicated people can do any motorsport let alone play with equipment anything like a dedicated racecar.

Speak for yourself. I tried to watch one NASCAR race and couldn’t even follow what was going on. It’d be like if a marathon was made up of 3 nine mile races with rest breaks. That doesn’t determine the fastest marathon runner, just who ran the last 9 miles fastest. The first 2/3rd of the race are irrelevant if the fiel…

Fair, but my point is you watch F1 and other indivdual sports knowing they will regularly be dominated for years on end by a single competitor. If that bothers someone, they’re just not cut out for individual sports. F1 is not for people who can’t look past the dominant driver/team and get excited about the battle for…

It’s very unique, and not my first choice, but I think it’s good looking anyway? I’d pick the Ioniq 5 every time, that’s far more my jam apperance wise, but I just have to respect and even admire the hyundai desgin department for swining for the fences in truly unique ways. Wouldn’t be pissed if this was the shape of…

I mean, every EV I’ve owned has been by far the cheapest and easiest car to own in my life. You literally can get most of your fuel for free if you do things like grocery shop or go to the movies once or twice a week and drive a moderate amount. Plus other than brakes (which thanks to regen see very very little wear) a…

I mean, it’d be interesting, lots of fun battles, and 5 winners from 5 teams, but Checo would be ~50 points clear of anyone. Add in another race but not champion winning driver at the second red bull to split up the points a bit more though? Maybe there’s a chance Alonso or Lewis are in the 3 or 4 way fight for first.…

How well is trying to make racing into a sport with tournements and such working for NASCAR? I tried to watch the race Kimi was in last year, and literally couldn’t figure out the basic structure. Like there’s three? seperate periods with intermissions and restarts, just for the heck of it? And “Playoffs” at the end…

2003 Sequoia, lately been paying at least 500 a month in maintenance, and that’s mostly just parts! Need to sell it, it was meant as a winter beater and we’re now well into summer. Looking like I’ll replace it for a while with a boomarang hand-me-down, the 1999 RX3oo I drove in 2010-2013. Then hopefully by winter or…

Gotcha, personally, I just wish we could have a charger port/receptacle standard that was as simple as fuel filling, or little more than “a nozzle of x thickness, and y length” so anyone could make or build charging stations, mobile battery packs, etc without gatekeeping or undue hurdles. 

Sounds like it might not be as bad as I remember, but I still would really prefer if the Charger port and plug were completely free of any single corporate entity’s encumbrance. Again, it’s clearly a much better DC standard, J1772 was always good enough for AC, but CCS is a terrible kludge, and NACS fixes the core…

Tesla’s connector is definitely better. However, my concern is that it is to my understainding not an open standard, but a patented and protected design they are currently offering to licennce for “free.” Down the road, when Tesla starts to struggle more for car sales but owns most of the charging market, I don’t…