Prioritization of resources comes to mind. FedEx treats its employees like shit with draconian policies and often-terrible working conditions. It’s not a bad idea per se from your perspective as a potentially uninvolved bystander, but to people working for FedEx or with a sympathetic ear to their workers, the cost of…

“but these f**king foreigners ain’t taking over my f**king country!”

What’s wrong with that interior?

For the record, I accidentally wrote “Oil Fitler” in my initial draft, and I’m not sure why I changed it given how badly this filter wants to ruin lives.

Thieves suck. But crime like this shoots up during economic unrest. If people had good jobs with pay that at the very least matched inflation, there would be FAR less package theft going on in this country.

Not automotive - but a friend of mine in Germany spent a year in a US high school as an exchange student. Since in Germany we were taught the Queen’s English in school, he had some adjustments to make. Such as when in the first week there, wanting to erase some pencil marks, he asked the girl sitting next to him if he…

I work in the auto industry in the US. A while back I went on a business trip to England. One of my British colleagues asked me if I was a “petrol head” and I had no idea what that meant, or that it was a common term there. I’m still not sure it’s a common term over there.

It’s not turbo lag, that doesn’t even really exist anymore. Ford programs its truck transmissions very, very far in the direction of fuel economy, which makes them very excited about shifting up, and very reluctant to shift down. You can correct this simply by putting the transmission in sport, pushing the tow button,…

I recently had this issue: my car needed an engine rebuild. The parts and labour cost amortised over a year were certainly more than a new car loan, but there was nothing new that I wanted to replace it with (and with the car market being so ridiculously overheated, I didn’t want to spend so much money on something I…

Trust issues with a car are a BIG thing, for sure.

Reasons I’ve given up on cars in the last few years:

I used to say “when your monthly repairs average get close to a monthly car payment, It’s time to dump the car”. That was when you could trade in towards a new Altima and end up paying $300 a month for 36 months. Now that I’ve had my current car for almost seven years and I absolutely love the thing, and its analog no…

The pay it forward thing has always been the dumbest thing imaginable. It’s performative charity for people who don’t need it. Want to feel good? Donate time or money to an actual cause. Or, as this article wisely suggests, tip the workers.

The (understandable) guilt trip: “I didn’t think quickly enough, and the result was a destroyed Chevy HHR and a bruised up Lincoln MKZ.”

I don’t see how this is the county’s fault. It’s pretty basic knowledge that you don’t leave your vehicle in a snowstorm. Sounds like the family is lashing out because they don’t want to recognize their son/brother made a poor choice. Sad stuff for sure 

So body-cam footage of this rescue by officers is officially released within 24hours but body-cam footage of officers breaking the law takes 18months and/or an act of congress to make it out?

You were really looking for a place to shoehorn in this complaint, weren’t you?

I sold my old Gary Fisher Level Betty a few years ago for $350 on CL and the amount of emails begging me to hold onto it was amazing. Dude drove in an hour from Boston to get it.

Damn Torch.....you had a productive holiday break didn’t you?  What did we do to deserve so much Torch awesomeness to start the year?!