I agree with you - these “close coupled” coupes with the tiny greenhouse never look quite right to me. The cabriolets and Atalante coupes are much better looking to my eye.

I get why these are loved and valuable, but to be honest I have never found MOST of them to be particularly pretty. And this one is not one of the best of them looks-wise. I think the Graber-bodied coupes were the pretty ones. But beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder and all that. The mechanicals are certainly…

Whatever. There is plenty of oil - it has the magical property of the more it costs the more there is of it as otherwise uneconomical to produce sources become economically viable. There is no “cutting off the oil” to the US - we are a net oil exporter. At worst we have spot refined product shortages because the…

If they go out of business, some other business takes their place. Oh well.

I have rarely agreed with CU about anything automotive.

For sure that is NOT a commercial fishing boat. So probably.

I doubt a humpback would even notice if it swallowed the sort of fishhooks you’d be using from that size of boat. More likely, Mr. Whale was fishing the same fish they were or the same krill their fish were eating, I can’t recall offhand if humpbacks are baleen or toothed whales, and they got in the way. Or it just…

The Isles of Shoals is nowhere near there. And as I said, this has been PRIME whale watching tour area for as long as there has been such a thing as whale watches.

That is very much their prerogative. Working for “The Man” has never been much fun. My first professional job, my cube was right next to my 6.4" boss’s. Every time she stood up, she was looking directly at what I was doing. And the micro manager gene was STRONG with that one. That was not fun either. I got out in…

The whining. There was a time I could have bought a nice E-Type for well under $10K, and I couldn’t afford it. Ditto an ‘80s Porsche 911 - though I came very close to buying one - could have bought it, just decided not to. Oh well.

Do you have low standards for what constitutes “nice”?

Those dumbasses were fishing where a whale was feeding and got in the way. And sometimes they like to breach just for the hell of it. It happens more often than you would believe that they run into boats, it’s just rarely caught on video. I grew up on the Gulf of Maine - you stay away from whales when they are doing…

Why should the government be involved in that way? If there is a societal reason to prefer efficiency, do it the smart way and tax the shit out of consumption and then let the market decide. And there was zero chance of EVs being a viable alternative in the 80s and 90s. They are barely viable *today*, and that was…

I miss Usenet. Yes, I am an old.

You can’t tell in a normal car no matter how golden eared you think you are (assuming a decent bitrate anyway), and most newer cars will play some of the lossless formats anyway.

I am a bit of a Luddite, but I cannot even begin to imagine why I would want a CD player in a new car in 2024. My CD collection is over 3000 disks (perks of working in a record store for many years in college) and they were all ripped to high-bitrate MP3 eons ago. And most of today’s cars speak some lossless formats…

And I balance you out by not being able to care less about it.

The easy solution in these days of ludicrously sized screens is just split the damned thing. Show AA/Carplay on half, the rest of the car functions on the other half, keep everybody happy. I generally don’t bother with AA or Carplay for the very reason this guy is bitching about. But all I generally use my phone for…

Barring a Constitutional amendment (and good luck with that in 21st century America for ANYTHING - we couldn’t get an amendment passed that says that water is wet and the sky is blue), Musk cannot be President (and thus can’t be VP either), as he was not born a US Citizen. Like Ahhhhnold, he could be Governor…

Were they? Teslas “work”, but they burned MANY MANY billions of dollars getting there to make rather small profits today. In the meantime, the rest of the industry just went along making money. And now they too are burning billions trying to force a switch that people really aren’t that into yet.