I almost considered hitting NP because:

Raise your hand if you pay $0.00 per Kwh for electricity at your house? Anybody? Somebody? Hmm, OK. Wonder why they dont figure that into their calculus. In Northern California, with their electric rates, on a cost per mile basis it cost more to charge the Tesla than it does to fill up a car that only gets 20mpg.

I mean really, what other 12 cylinder Ferrari are you going to get for under $100k? A 400i? Who the hell wants that? No one that’s who. NP

Might be the best article I’ve ever read on Jalopnik. Awesome and thorough job Raph!

I dunno, except for the 4 seconds when he gunned it up to 90, and to a screaming 3600 rpm, everything else was very calm pedestrian driving. If I saw it, and it was my car, I would go back and tell the guy “Dude, you were recorded, don’t hoon customer cars”, and be done with it, not rush to post it on Jalopnik for…

I dunno, I owned a mid 1984 Mercury Topaz (2.3L with a single barrel carb, and a 3 speed slush box), and it was the only car that ever made me hate cars and made me depressed while I was in it. It was a spiteful car built on a long wish list of negative attributes. I hated it and felt sorry for it at the same time.

Y’all do realize that the ‘confidential emails’ had already been tagged for release by the Republicans, yes?

“He was told by the salesperson that their “Porsche Certified Technician” gave the car a clean bill of health.”

I’m on board with that, that sounds good. <Saved>

I agree 100% with everything you posted. The key, which was my intended point before, is that its BOTH individual and systematic. Its only systematic (predominately) against black people. Everything you wrote is spot on. However its individual in both directions. Thats what Damon’s prior article was wrong about and…

Recipes or GTFO

Basically, non-POC posters here who’s posts usually dont get approved (their posts stay ‘greyed’ out),

I know, right :)

#6 - Long over due. Extra points for sticking it in Alabama. Doesnt make me uncomfortable. I’d go see it if it was closer.

Its only cultural appropriation when the greys do it.

I gotta call foul on that one. Sketchy never has been, and never will be strictly in the domain of the black community. Thats been a commonly used slang term for years and years. I recall friends using that long time back usually in the context of describing half assed car repairs.

“I guess if you’re white, you can divorce yourself from it, but that’s a conscious decision. Maybe you can view that as a bygone time even though today’s justice system kills black bodies with reckless abandon or puts us in jail while white kids who kill black people get off with light, suspended sentences.”

10. Because white people can’t say it (my favorite reason).

Could be worse, I have a woman at a property I manage with a Jag S-type that wont move. Has an automatic parking brake (electronic module controlled)that decided to become a permanent parking brake; it wont release. She needs to locate a Jag tech that will do house calls to come do a sketchy bypass of the module to…

Y’all are missing out on the best sounding car<>bike motor swap project on the net.