This is probably suboptimal for “adventure-type” off-roading, but as far as just fucking around... I am always amazed at how few miles I’ve travelled when I take my dirt bike into a sandbox. Maybe I’m just lazy and am too eager to get back to camp and crack beers... okay that’s totally it... but last time I took my…

Did you try looking on a Tuesday? I see a lot of specials for tacos on Tuesdays

i don’t mind other people’s car color choices as long as it is not any shade of green

Meanwhile, a 30-something couple-he an actuarial, she an Office Depot manager-drove by in their 2015 Toyota Camry. Never exceeding the speed limit by anything that would garner attention they arrived at their unremarkable house without drama a half-hour later.

Honda has sold almost 40,000 Ridgelines in the U.S.,

Neutral: What Should The Self-Driving Car Rules Be?

>having only one plane

In consolation, here’s a Baja you can finish:

I find it amusing how everyone is stuck on this ethics thing for autonomous cars. The circumstances where an autonomous car will be left with only two choices, kill person A, or person B, are SO remote that they don’t even warrant discussion, in my opinion.

Regarding the 633 CSi to New Beetle.

The first WRX story is idiotic....he’s against WRXs and Subaru because he bought a POS modified one....OK. Also the second one, he hits a deer and flames....any car could do that.

Speaking as someone who works in auto parts manufacturing in the US, automation is indeed the name of the game. We have a subsidiary plant in Mexico. What they do with 7-10 people, we do with 2-3 because our facility is far more automated.

Have an M3 convertible. Can confirm. It feels like it takes an hour to put the top up when you are at the side of the road.

I have no shame putting my top down. And as fast as it goes down I can usually do it at most stop lights. You do get looks though like “ This guy thinks hes cool and shit”.

Crank the music and rock out as it’s slowly being muffled.

The actual reason is for NVH. There is typically a bunch of sound deadening material under them. Sometimes they even cover mass dampers.

They aren’t allowed to care about serviceability. If you saw all the “keep out” zones that are implemented because of crash regulations, heat, assembly line issues, shipping, worker safety, etc you’d be blown away. It’s amazing they fit engines and transmissions into anything anymore.

You joke, but most companies do actually have a “revenue” metric that design changes are weighed against. Finance might say that your “$50" change is worth $0, because realistically, how many people will actually pay more for a vehicle because of it? Or, because of the oddities of benchmarking, they might actually say…