Given the “last imperialists hiding on a remote island” thing, the reader is left to assume that Alaska is Soviet territory at this point.

At the suburb of Dallas I live in, the police depart exclusively uses Ford Explorers for its patrol vehicles. The dog park is the largest area of un-developed land in the county.

“Crankshaft position sensor” malfunction due to a slight leak in the rear main seal. Stopped the engine dead midstroke on the freeway, cost $500 to replace before even talking about the main seal.

This is the best reply in the thread. If you’re going to blow money on overpowered luxury, go all the damn way.

This list is bollocks. I had this exact same question a year ago, and what did I get? A convertible Mercedes CLK 500 with 75k miles, for a third of what this guy is looking to spend. Power, luxury, and potentially extravagant repair bills hanging over my head like the Sword of Damocles.

I was waiting for somebody to post this image. It’s exactly the same kind of profound immediacy and clarity that feels so real it becomes absurd. We’re not used to seeing a murder so clearly, at the moment it happens. And lest it need be said, it is a good thing that such an image is surreal to most people.

This is the correct reaction. We’ll all wear cheap power ties and loafers, and hoon around north Chicago.

Nice Pontiac

I can’t help but think this wasn’t a glitch at all, just Uber throwing out a super large bill to see if anyone caught it. Part of their “try anything and see what sticks” business plan.

One guy had a late 60s Barracuda, that only hit on seven cylinders.

Lowest-bidder military rations.

Does Tracy David collect heaps of Toyota Cruisers?

This moving really is a wealth of crunchy detail for people who geek out over the operational engineering of PDP-1 mainframes. Praise the maker!

I don’t know how many other people are going to read a huge comment like this, so thank you for an excellent breakdown of the vapor-tech business experience.

One company buys all the assets, another company assumes all the debts, and they’re both owned by the same person.

Hard at working finding waymo ways to waste waymo money.

That’s the thing, all of the technology to build a phone already exists in a modern car, plus literally a thousand other components. Apple and Google had no idea what they were getting into.

Good. The car industry did not need “disruption” from a brigade of turtlenecks whose idea of product-longevity is how readily it can be patched. Building cars is a whole different ballgame from writing software.

I was gonna say, an early MythBusters episode featured the centrifugal governor for dropping an elevator. Adam and Jamie were fascinated and amused by the spinning balls. Science!

Unless the guy who invented it plays jolf and mows jrass and locks his jate, then that guy is wrong.