Lincoln Blackwood. Ford started with a perfectly good pickup truck and made it both infinitely worse and more expensive!

BMW may be among the best, but only until the warranty runs out.  After that, they become money pits, with expensive repairs requiring expensive parts.

I’m guessing that pro golfers are used to “cutting the line”, because “the show” won’t go on without them. Most golf tournaments are already clusters, when it comes to traffic, so I could see where the added, unexpected gridlock (due to the fatal crash) could cause some misunderstanding and conflicting directions or…

Tesla Model X’s gullwing doors!

Some have slightly different specs, but the biggest difference is the mix of drivers and any sort of maintenance . . .

I’m assuming that the Tacoma Bmartii2001 drove (and hated) had the V6 and a crew cab. I had an ‘09 base single cab with the 4 cylinder engine, and the manual was perfectly fine, as was the ‘09 technology (back in ‘09). Lighter weight and lower/different expectations definitely made/make a difference.

Given the tires were also vintage 1911, it’s probably a good thing that they couldn’t go any faster!

Some of those “migrants on the border” could be redirected to the Toyota plant . . . 

1968-1971 VW Type II “station wagon”/van/kombi. Roomy, agile, very easy to fix, parts are easy to find, and the only electronics are in the radio.

It’s a diesel and it’s in California, where diesel is probably twice as expensive.

Flying Southwest, where more bags “fly free”, incentivizes more people to check bags, to everyone’s advantage.  Over many decades, I’ve never had a bag lost, permanently, but I’ve had a few delayed and delivered.  Life happens, plan accordingly.

And I’m not old enough to remember when the electric starter, windshield wipers, turn signals, fuel gauges, or a heater were optional, and not standard equipment.

Power Steering! I’m old enough to remember (and have experienced) the Armstrong days of manual, unassisted everything, including steering, brakes, transmissions, windows, seats, doors, HVAC, and chokes.

$39M is more than $100,000 per day, every day . . .

“Laws without enforcement are not worth the paper they’re written on!” There will ALWAYS be people who believe that the laws don’t apply to them/are too inconvenient/are inherently unfair. Guess what? The place to address those issues is in the legislature, not by having law enforcement ignoring the violations, out on…

Roll the dice. If it lasts 14 months, it’s less than $300/month.

It’s like trying to name the best golfer or musician. Different times and familiarity both play a role, along with evolving rules, equipment, and tracks. I always thought that Dale, Sr., was pretty good, but dying young(ish) took him, literally, out of the race . . .

Built-in cell phones, including the physical keypad on the dash, manual seats, manual (unassisted) brakes, and manual (unassisted) steering (to go with the crank windows), both the manual choke and the automatic choke, curb feelers, fender-mounted light minders, necker knobs (to go with the bench seats), 8-track and ca…

It also sounds like EVs with damaged batteries could be the cause, as well.

With the rise of EVs, I guess that this is what the future holds for enthusiasts and SEMA.  It’s not a future that I’ll be a part of.