Ditto here - I appreciate performance cars, bikes, and skilled drivers, would love the opportunity to try my hand at amateur racing, and really enjoyed Ford V Ferrari. So you’d think I’d be into Indy, or MotoGP, or any of them. But I just find watching races to be boring as hell. Maybe the fact that I can’t stand…

6'4"+ here, 36" inseam, plenty of mass. There are definitely options out there for us, but I can’t yet speak from experience on the Royal Enfields. I *am* interested in getting one for my (much shorter) wife, which means I would also sneak it out for fun runs :) I have considered Bonnevilles for myself, and am…

Hey, I already sent my $126 for the Pulitzer I won for pointing out that someone was wrong on Twitter! I’m sorry but you are going to have to decline Mr. Torchinsky's award, it’s mine!

Definitely not safe to fire into the air under any circumstances. But a bullet fired straight up (which was more or less the case in the video) will only accelerate to terminal velocity as it tumbles back to the ground. I wouldn’t want to be hit by one, any more than I’d want to be hit by a moderate sized hailstone,…

I had a 200 rental several years ago -same deal with the ultra-grabby brakes. It was an unremarkable car otherwise, but managing those brakes is the one thing I recall clearly about it.

Not all areas have those remote systems installed, or at least not in the same numbers. I was surprised when I moved between states how many busy intersections don’t have them.

Yep - boxy and utilitarian is attractive in its own way, even if the vehicle is fundamentally boring. Same goes for old Mercedes and Volvos. It’s when they try to aggro/sport up a boring vehicle that they just come across looking goofy.

“Anyone who doesn’t agree with me is an idiot, full stop”

Good theory. But does it explain interstate bus drivers?

I seriously had to scroll up to see if this was posted under another site. Nope... a Jalop commentator just made the argument that an M series sports car should be governed to something close to one country’s speed limit.  My 40 year old motorcycle can go 2x the regional speed limit - why do I need that?  Should it be…

It’s a slooooooaaaaaow pump...

Lately I’ve had more good experiences with dealerships than bad ones, but that may just be because I only give a dealer one chance to not be manipulate dicks. A bad culture usually starts from the top, and I would be surprised if a dealership that tolerates hostile sales tactics will ever significantly change for the…

You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, shark’s in the water. Ahr shark...

So that’s that the use to bait sharks in Australia, huh? Poor wenches...

“It’s only going to go up in value” is one of those seller gems that pretty much always translates to “I’m fishing for suckers”.

Nice flashback! Full disclosure: I skimmed the article, but stopped for each of the David Macaulay -level drawings. The 2020s needs more silly, beautiful, hand-drawn “how stuff works” illustrations!

How many students did it take to move it?

Similar story happened to a friend a few years back at a large Boston area Toyota dealership (cough*Boch*). They took his license for a test drive, then “couldn’t find it” when he was ready to leave. As soon as he lost patience and loudly demanded his license back, it miraculously appeared. He did end up buying the…

Nice, I’ll check it out. The pics I posted above are of one that got a B18. Either one is probably overkill in a fwd gen1, but I love that it’s been done.

Here’s a novel idea... how about putting it in a Civic? I mean, one that wasn’t designed by a 10-year-old...