Man, I don’t want to nitpick, but a 4 day weekend that ends at noon on Sunday? That is pretty much just the one we are in right now. If you get the family out the door by 8AM Thursday, that is a 76 hour trip, 1000 miles of it driving.....

I realize the route is probably “TBD”, but will it be the overlanding that involves “camping wherever I stop” or the overlanding “I am driving on sketch-ass 3rd world roads, please let me get to my next hotel/hostel/non-hostile place of rest”?

Here is the funny thing: My brother is in Colorado (I’m in Virginia), and we plan on meeting every other year “in the middle.” This last one was in West Virginia, which means I am leaning more his way next time.

UP came up, with options for off-roading and white-water rafting.  It looks like there are some places in…

Which gen Xterra? Where do you get your mud?

Depending on how hot your summers are, I would suggest that the glue adds its scent. Nissan fanboi here, and I can tell you that they had one supplier in the early 90's, based on smell alone.

2nd Gear: There is a good bit on Last Week Tonight about Unions from this Sunday. People here should give it a look; it will describe how hard companies fight unions and how small the penalties are for violating Federal Law in this regard.

I am not a fan of all unions, but I’m thinking Toyota is being a little…

“...we’ll just eat it on the back end...”
*giggle*

Yes, I’m 14...

How would you like to spend 70 grand for a car and fail to get parts because the company is gone?
Agreed.

I remember far enough back when AT&T got into desktops. Whole companies bought into the ecosystem.
Oops.

This.
Getting somewhere and camping is so much simpler than all of these builds, whether it is one of these ‘budget’ builds or the Canyonyero with a roof tent, gobi ladder, Gordon Ramsey pull-out kitchenette, and wine chiller.

Granted, I have spent a little over 16 months of my life in a tent (not in a row; that’s kind…

Yo’ momma so wide, she got other, smaller mamas caught in her gravity well!

Isn’t he, essentially, building a kit car, though?  Enough of it will be fabricated/other drivetrain/ fairy dust that he could just issue one.

“Worst case, I sell some of the parts and keep some for my FC-170.”
Dude. I know we don’t know how far along you are on the FC-170, but we are begged to ask, “Why not start with this one, instead, and junk the thing that was already mostly junk?”

Did Bronco fail to weld the frames properly on their top trim?

They both have their issues.

Probably.  I had an image in my head of the England rowing team, for some reason.  Sorry for the incorrectness.

If I have understood it correctly, they don’t need state of the art. Those are available. Intel’s CEO told the big three they could have all the 16nm chips they wanted.
Vehicles have to be a little less on the bleeding edge to insure failure rates are microscopic.

They already do at the Olympics. It rather is cheating, if you ask me, to have the England team, the Wales team, and the Scotland team. I can’t say as I recall any Irish teams.
When I asked a friend for clarification, he said that they were 4 kingdoms/countries that were united into a (mostly) land-locked empire, with…

Agreed. I haven’t looked at BMW since 2018, but I am sure there are now 4 more units aimed at males 5'9"-5'10.5" in the M Sport 4 series hatch crossover segment.
It is an interesting thing. The goal is to sell lots of cars, so cover all of the bases with minimal intrusions into the production line. It is different than…

Exactly. Thurmond, West Virginia is a prime example.
“Hey, our coal helped build the nation, quite literally!”
“Great. Thanks. We don’t need you any more”
So, Thurmond, Oak Hill, and the surrounding areas are, essentially, left with service sector economy jobs.  They would love a manufacturer to come in and offer real…

“It’s really too bad that Toyota is experiencing the consequences of its own actions.”
That isn’t how consequences work. This law is what is known as an “externality” or “unknown” in economic models.
The other way to headline this would be “One of the world’s largest automakers, who brought good-paying jobs to rural…

Is this the one the Import Guys brought over with the supercharger on it?
*heads off to check*