Ever see those old Woody Woodpecker face decals they’d stick on hotrods? The kind where Woody has a cigar clamped in one side of his mouth? Yeah. That’s what this car looks like to me. Hang a big cigar in one of those oval openings and you’re good to go.

It looks a lot like the Maybach concept they showed at Pebble Beach last August, particularly the headlight detail.

I agree.

So we’re in for a 2025 production release on the pickup truck. Sounds good.

Thank you. It was a long time ago and my memory isn’t what it once was.

Don’t forget that if you’re starting to cross the street and 3 vehicles roll through on a stale red, chances are better than even that they’re all rideshare cars.

In 1980, Ford introduced the Mustang GT version, which came with TRX Michelin tires and dedicated wheels. It also came with all of 150hp. At the time, most cars were making less than 100hp, so this was kind of a big deal. So much so, that Car and Driver had an article about it, complete with an overhead view of a…

My brother had one of the Mitsubishi versions of that. Reliable, but uninspired.

If you’re buying a local use EV, why would you bother with either of these? Even more pointedly, why would you buy new?

Reveal codes! Reveal codes! That was the big freakout by the admins when a firm I was at went from WP to Word.

I should point out that Google does not store documents related to litigation in Google Docs, so that should tell you something.

The answer is “it depends” on how they’re stored. Sole practitioner? Likely a different story than a firm that’s representing Exxon.

Because under the ethics requirements of the ABA, they have to take every reasonable action to ensure the security and confidentiality of client data.

Like 20 years ago, that was true. Not anymore. I work with both large and small firms all over the world and Word is the current standard for law firms. MSFT has greatly improved some of their more esoteric formatting functions, which lawyers use every day.

Plus, try building a table of authorities or an actual table of contents in those other tools. Some of us do more than typing basic paragraphs for blogs and create actual documentation that is more complex than either Google Docs or some text editor can deal with.

I can’t believe nobody recommended he buy a dead Jeep out of a barn, fix it and drive it halfway across the country with a sketchy differential.

Twitter seems to serve no other purpose than being a giant noise machine. I joined in like 2009 and that was evident pretty quickly. My take is that Twitter has shown that not every person really needs to have a voice they share with the world.

It feels more uninspired than anything else to me. Haven’t we already seen this sausage in a different length in the S? Th3 3 has exactly no identity of its own and, if anything, seems to say that Tesla really doesn’t have any design ideas at all.

Between reliability issues and dealing with updated software, it appears that Tesla is learning that building cars isn’t quite as easy as they might have imagined. The power plant is one thing, but the real complexity is making the rest of the car.

The 500 is also the rarer of the two versions, if I recall correctly. The underlying engine, introduced in the mid 70s, was way ahead of its time. 10K redline. Pushrods. A sideways Vtwin and shaft drive. The CX500/650 was pretty far out there and bolting a turbo to it in 1982 really pushed it over the edge, in my…