The sad thing is that this is the 200th time this particular groundhog has died this particular way.

I love the styling of these trucks. Proportions are damn near perfect and they look great bone stock. It’a s shame that mechanically they are a bit of a ticking time bomb. The V8s especially are known for leaking coolant into the engine by way of the water pump. I was looking at these for a while, but decided I didn’t…

What kind of F1 style-megasoft compound are you using on a street car that turning the tire while stopped is creating any kind of noticeable flat-spot?

No power steering. Manual steering cars, if correctly cambered, will try to self correct to straight.

There’s also the more precise advice which is,

Um that tire thing is actually factually accurate but causes a more unsafe behavior (aka rolling when you shouldn’t for example in a parallel parking situation).

Ask any racer, any real racer, knows that drag racing is more than just mashing a pedal and keeping a car straight it doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winnings winning.

sometimes there is more to victory than what is on a spec sheet.

You beat me to this comment.. although I just read the 6.2 gets better MPG because of cylinder deactivation.

I drove the latest Escalade for a weekend and I was pleasantly surprised by the MPG on the highway (which I think has the same 6.2 engine). It was about the same as my Mini Cooper S.

Problem with a hanging notice is that people won’t read it. Espiecally not the parents of young children because they are contantly overwhelmed and inwardly focused. The motto of the parents of young children generally seems to be “fuck your rules, I have kids to take care of and therefore am more important.”

Make it a black light, say it’s a superleggera, charge $800,000

Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing “Hallelujah.”

My dad was born and raised on a dairy farm. He woke up every day at 5:30am and worked until 7:30am when he then left for school. He came home and ate supper and did home work for an hour and then it was back to work until everything was done, usually about 7:30.   He did this every day of his life until the farm…

As a famous person once said:

Zipping down the open lane is maximizing road bandwidth. Merging early and sitting in stopped traffic doesn’t help the situation.

The zipper merge doesn’t magically make traffic pass through the bottleneck any faster. That’s physically impossible. The same reason why water backs up in a funnel.

Take ‘Chopped’ for example. (It’s a cooking competition show on Food Network.) Most of the contestants express some variant of “I’m very competitive”, “I really want to win”, and/or “I don’t like to lose”.

Give him a brake, it’s easy to make that mistake.

My first thought was, “He did NOT just say Camero...” Followed by my best Samuel L. Jackson stare.

But Stef, 11 year old me thought this Cavalier was rad.