The fact is Australians and Americans have very similar tastes and that Pontiac could continue to be just rebadged Holdens forever and I’d be happy with it.  The only issue was that Holden itself only lasted until 2020 so Pontiac would still be on life support.

That would be the most boring Jurassic Park movie.  Now if we cross bred frog DNA into Walnut Trees then you’d have a f’n movie.

Some of the weirder issues I’ve seen have been caused by corrosion on the fuse tabs, try cleaning up the tabs or replacing the fuse.  Same with relays, those usually are pretty binary in the failure but sometimes if the solenoid is getting worn they can have intermittent connection or bad connection.

This is Miami I think you can pay for these in Kilo’s if you can’t find it.

Well the Camaro is gone which was one of the few affordable convertibles. The Solara and Sebring have been dead forever (bring it back Toyota you cowards!). Same with the VW Eos and the Buick Cascada. I think the Mustang and the MX-5 are pretty much it. There are higher end stuff from the Germans (A5, 4-series, Z4,…

The issue is they kind of need to be old growth hard woods. Pine or Douglass Fir are pretty sustainable because they grow fast. I nice burled walnut dash inlay probably came from a very old and hard to replace tree.  That being said they remove sick trees all the time and once the wood is cured I have no beef with…

My dad’s Continental had a built in phone that swiveled out of arm rest and a 6-disc CD changer under it.  So make that 3 obsolete features on the ‘02 Continental.

I remember our Lincoln had a built in cigarette lighter and ashtray in all four doors.

I’m with you. I built a deck recently to the most up to date Prescriptive Code. My state requires only ‘09 IRC but there are much newer codes available so I went with that. Seems like Simpson pretty much has a monopoly on in-code brackets because I used quite a few.

It’s true, and whenever I see one out and about I give them the head nod of knowing they dropped $85k on one.

Right but this code would only apply to American launched vessels or vessels within American waters correct?  IIIRC the sub in question was launched from Canada due to them having looser regulations.

Yea, pretty much every shop manual says to disconnect the battery regardless of what you are working on.  You never know what sensor will become unhappy from being disconnected when it is live.

“You’ll find 275/25ZR19 tires up front and 285/30ZR20 rubber out back” Always fun to have staggered tire size on a performance AWD car.  I’m guessing you have to replace all 4 when one is worn and they will not be cheap.

Neptunes, Joopiter, I’m seeing a theme here.

A true reader appreciates a PG throwback:

honestly most of the time its either a Landcruiser or a Range Rover.

“You can trust a Jalopnik writer not to crash a Camaro.”

I do hate that somehow the phrase “save the bees.” is political. 

VW was actually who I had in mind with my comment.  the 1.8T and the 2.0T that replaced it was dropped in virtually all of their offerings in varying levels of performance and much of that was due to ECU tuning.

It seems a common question is “why aren’t these regulated”.  I’m thinking how difficult it would be to create and organize a regulating body that would then have to come up with standards and means of enforcement for something that goes into bodies of water in all kinds of different nations territories (or…