Native Italian here.

I found it very hard to justify driving around my 9-year-old shit box chevy sonic after I had a big step up in my career.

I lived in Scotland for a short time, and they were the same, exceptionally nice folk, as long as you weren’t English.

By the way, am I the only one who always found that the Lada Niva looks like a mix of Milouse from the simpson and Eugene Levy? Like that Fiat somehow look human like a vintage middle aged man

I don’t care how rare this thing is, that’s an insane price. No other word for it. Probably didn’t cost that much when it was brand new. And as much as I like to row through the gears myself, a stick shift in a vehicle like this, hauling kids, dogs and groceries, is not something I’d consider an advantage.

You assume covid is a non-mutating virus.

“The idiots and anti-intellectuals won”

That’s not how it works, like at all. Controlling the spread of infectious diseases is never* an all-or-nothing, 0% or 100% thing.

Pretty sure they have policies in place on what they should do in a disturbance. The fact of the matter is these people are not only refusing to wear a mask. They are attacking people, showing their asses, threatening and other random shit. You don’t give someone a free pass on that crap and I am just waiting for a…

and he was moving to Florida specifically, so yeah, he fits right in. 

I dunno, I appreciate that you’re pro-mask, but it kinda sounds like you’re interpreting masks as a binary activity and it isn’t, ie masks provide no benefit unless the compliance is absolute and uniform, and that isn’t the case. If you wear a mask at the ice rink concession stand when you’re in closer proximity to a…

“No worries about assimilation into American culture here”

He worked in a body shop in the 80s/90s. 

listened to a story on The Moth yesterday about that.

guy was reminiscing about his gramma who was the best gramma ever and when he would spend the weekend with her, they’d watch the Dukes and he’d play with a little toy car. he’d go home and inevitably lose the car after playing with it. next weekend he’d go to…

Awful doing this to a rare V8, but if the engine says NO to all attempts at revival, get a used Leaf, too, fuse them, sell leftover parts, and drive the coolest Mercedes EV out there at super low cost. NP.

never own a chrysler product.

is that a superstition or just good judgement?

I normally drive a 1994 Peugeot 205, with only electric windows as a ‘feature’, and maybe its rear wiper... No auto assists of any kind, only a 4-cylinder and a 5-speed mt.
Why is this relevant?
Because I practically fall asleep driving my parents’ Volvo with cruise control, a sat nav, and power steering. That is how…

Why would they?

I’ve seen this movie. Corvette Milkfloat (1978)