Yeah, the internet hype machine has a way of blowing these cars up. I remember like 7-8 years ago, it seemed like every other Jalopnik (and other car website) article was about how great of an inexpensive fun car the BMW E30 was, and how the M3 edition was an under-appreciated classic.

Car collectors might be waking up to the fact that air-cooled 911s, while really cool, aren’t exactly difficult to come by.

Really agree with this. To the non-gearhead, the Supra was just an old Toyota, and the new one is just a pricey sportscar with an uncool Toyota logo on it.

Eh, climbing is physical, but so much more it’s mental control and technique. People remain exceptional climbers and mountaineers much longer than they can be really great baseball players.

Yeesh, the dude’s different, but saying he’s “broken” feels pretty judgmental to me. It’s not like he’s out there hurting people and making the world a worse place.

Yeah, I feel like they have to pretty much burn their image to the ground or try to just hold on until the whole Harley image is cool again (if it ever will be).

Sure, they might be gross representations, but the once the stereotype sticks it’s extremely hard to change.

But halo bikes and cars do attract younger and first-time buyers. That’s the point.

It’s not about the company as much as it is the HOG culture — obnoxiously loud pipes, antisocial biker gang mentality, and conservative, racist, sexist America. T-shirts that say “If you can read this, the bitch fell off” — that kind of shit.

Oil consumption is a major national security, economic, public health, and environmental issue. If the government shouldn’t regulate that, then there shouldn’t be traffic laws, building codes, or food safety regulations either.

What does this have to do with simplifying regulations? Everything was going according to plan before Trump decided to get involved. His people are the reason things are so complicated all of a sudden.

As a 16 year-old kid in my church who led worship and did a good job at being charismatic and seeming pious, I had had fully-grown adults fawning over me, telling me about my wisdom. Of which I actually had little to speak of.

I concur, as someone who grew up in a similar homeschooled, Christian environment. Leaving is harder and requires more sacrifice than a lot of outsiders can understand.

Typically Boomers annoy the hell out of me, but I do agree the “cosplay” comment feels a little teapot/kettle.

So some riders choose less-protective gear. Who cares? They choose to accept the risk and it doesn’t put anyone else on the road in harm’s way. Riding motorcycles is more inherently dangerous than driving a car, why don’t they make that illegal too?

I’m tired of property owners acting as if everyone else is responsible for maintaining the value of their investment.

I work with climate scientists and the common answer to that is “the planet will be fine...humans are the ones that are in trouble.”

Yeah, that’s true. A smart rider would see that potential and slow down. If anything, you can split faster in standstill gridlock because there’s no way for car drivers to quickly change lanes.

Definitely. If he was anticipating the lane change he wouldn’t have been riding way too fast to react in the first place.

Of course. Nothing matters more to me than how I’m perceived by strangers sitting in traffic on the freeway.