American cars sell quite well in Russia, Central Asia, and the Gulf.

The Volkswagen Lavida is a slightly tweaked Škoda Octavia, which is why it doesn’t look like any other VW.

Why just bring magnets when you can bring these?

Besides my vacuum bag trick, I’ve also carried a lot of growlers in my checked bags. Certainly, simple glass growlers are out. They just don’t work for travel. Surprisingly, Hydroflask growlers are also bad. They’re solid enough, but every one I’ve had leaked when faced with altitude changes, temp changes and being on…

When I’m taking beer from home to trade, I wrap the bottles or cans in bubble wrap, then place the wrapped bottle in a vacuum sealer bag and vacuum seal the whole thing. Not only does it ensure that everything stays dry and glass free, the vacuum seal bag keeps the bubble wrap from getting loose.

I regularly buy and transport rare beers that are $20-30 (or more) a bottle. If you’re carrying Coors or Carlsberg, you ought to have your head examined.

Amtrak along the NE corridor is a wholly different creature than it is elsewhere in the nation. I used to need to travel from CT to DC regularly. Amtrak was faster than driving or flying and about the same price as flying.

Which is why I don’t equate them. Some people see the Bugatti as luxurious. I and others see it as ridiculous, so I used the parenthesis to offer an alternative adjective instead of a slash which might suggest that I think they’re equivalent.

The Agera is not a “hard core track car”. Yes, it’s not as luxe (gauche) as a Bugatti, but you could easily eat a pastry at a ridiculously high speed. The lack of AWD might make you reconsider doing that in the rain though.

When GM briefly owned Lotus in the 90s, GM employees were offered their employee discount on Lotus cars. My dad was a GM employee at the time and carefully reviewed the paperwork that came out, pricing out what an Esprit would cost him. He went so far as to visit the local Lotus dealership (conveniently, the closest…

From Hethel With Love

You are correct. I meant to type Solara and inexplicably misspelled Tagora instead.

I’ve always wanted a Gallant VR4. On the other hand, this is a beater/project car. If it just had idled mechanicals (that need mild refreshing), I could see $4k. If it just had hail damage (and solid mechanicals), I could see nearly $4k. With both a need to refresh hoses, belts, fluids, etc and possibly irreparable…

This is the crux of the open world double edged sword. In linear games, developers could afford to create new objects and textures everywhere the player was likely (or needed) to go. Even then, some cheaper out, but objectives could be tracked-retry easily.

The Tagore is just the sedan version of the car that inspired (but was in no way related to) the Chevy Citation, the Simca 1307.

As was I. As I’ve noted before, I saw my first M1 in a central Paris BMW showroom in 1980. I was 13 and it made lifelong impression. On the other hand, my father’s 1980 Corvette was the most dated car I’d encounter until I started my ongoing relationship with full size Jeeps when I bought a Grand Wagoneer.

Like most kids in Southern California, the first car my parents let me drive was this one...

You can when you’re using it as a turn of phrase instead of a mathematical term.

I think you’re confused about what cars looked like in the 70s.

This...BMW M1. It’s 40 years old next year. Let that sink in.