on the track that’s whatever but you’ve got a helmet on and are mostly hearing your own induction noise and engine.

all loud cars on the road sound like shit now. it’s gross and absolutely boomer energy to have some expensive exhaust on your garage queen and go jerking yourself off by winding it out on public roads...…

i hope all those people who have heavily tinted license plate covers get rodknock due to oil starvation

I don’t have an EV, but there’s a cost associated with maintaining the automobile gas infrastructure and transporting physically heavy non-reusable gas. Electric motors are 85+% efficient, consumer gasoline engines are at best 40%. So for you to use your 16 gallons of gas, more energy is burned refining it, moving it…

No need to crap on the r129. this one is horrible with the wheels and bodykit and other choices, but the r129 is equally as iconic as the r107

I dont believe that. If we’re paying attention to economy size and growth we know their demographic problem is insurmountable in the medium term and the immense xenophobia there really means it’s unfixable by immigration for a long time.

China has a lot going for it but using past performance as a predictor for future…

I don’t understand how they made an interior that looks this tacky and has such obvious poor usability. It’s unappealing and off-putting in so many ways that I wouldn’t expect.

It’s 2022, everyone else has figured out your climate controls need physical controls with tactile feedback. You can’t Tesla-fy your climate…

Not vintage yet, but the early 5th generation retro mustangs look kind of sad in a dying-retail-mall kind of way... I think they’re going to continue to age depressingly.

Maybe there will be car shows similar to Radwood but with a later nostalgia focus point where we’re making social commentary like “how did we not…

really? they’re doing this while we’re sprinting into recession? lol

Yeah. It’s going to take Tesla a decade to catch up to the Ioniq 5 if they keep the pace of the Model 3 / Y. The interior & ergonomics are just night and day.

Other manufacturers are really getting a chance to eat since Tesla has so many production and quality woes. They’ve had no opportunity to make visual exterior…

1998 Toyota Corolla DEALER LOANER

because that precondition is a bad one “if demand stays anywhere near the same level.” demand is not staying anywhere near the same level. consumer confidence is in the hole, gas use is dropping, and people’s post-pandemic antsiness is tapering along with disillusionment in short term rentals that will further disrupt…

That’s unfortunately not true anymore due to the interior quality. I love this segment and love the S-class and the new interior is disappointing. They whiffed on everything in front of the driver. 

There’s a major downside to this in some fields. Because retaining STEM employees has been so hard, you can work at banking, real estate, back office type corps and get an inflated title then price yourself out of the market by 40-45. You can sometimes do some sort of side-step into a different role or keep getting…

I think I disagree with a decent amount of this. Long term structural challenges must be addressed or we’re mortgaging the future. An aging productive workforce must be replaced and the combo of anti-immigration policy plus lowering birth rates is bad. I’m talking about the enormous childcare burden on this last one.…

Yeah it’s probably Toyota, and Lexus is just insane. LS400, LS430, ES300, every LX, the GX’s, and they created & perfected the entry level luxury crossover market with the RX which despite this place hating their drivers may be the quintessential modern “Great Car” considering almost everything on the road is now a…

I need to sell my 03 s2000. my spinal nerves stopped behaving last year so I don’t drive it anymore.

Such a neat car but now I drive old people vehicles and sit on cushions.

I have no idea if this idea is worthwhile but what you said is completely silly. “fucking scary.” lol. Oppression complex much?

Every country does this. In the US, every state has laws, almost every town has ordinances forcing people to “do the right thing” and that’s the foundation of society. Being forced is usually…

A heads up - a chunk of this is a few years out of date. A number of these are perceived in the opposite way as described if you’re not working with older demographics.

How did Acura get to Infiniti-tier levels of mediocre?

I traveled quite a bit for work for a while, and I think I get it.

Through rapid information sharing, US culture in large cities homogenized enough in the 90's and 2000's that there really aren’t drastic differences when traveling. Food and service is an industry that consolidated techniques and practices for the better…