Reliability, mostly. I traded in my 2009 Lexus IS and needed something a bit bigger to transport growing kids and all of their sports equipment. I ended up with a new 2024 Lexus RX350. It’s not fast or flashy, but it will last forever and get me there in complete comfort.

No. He said they are struggling to understand a single issue with the car on tracks where bumps and kerbs affect the race line. Car design is an exercise in compromises. The task is for them to understand what changes can be made to better the car on street circuits without giving back too much of their dominance on…

Free speech means speech free from GOVERNMENT interference. It doesn’t require a private business to allow any speech it disapproves of on its site.

I was recently in a friend’s Model 3 and I couldn’t help but be struck by how cheap the interior looked and felt. I know it is supposed to be minimalistic, but it seemed low rent in practice. It felt like an appliance. My Lexus runs circles around it as a nice place to sit.

Also, unless you have an active subscription, you usually aren’t getting up to date traffic information. Give me CarPlay and Waze over any factory nav system.

Had those for a while myself. Replaced them with Conti DWS and never looked back after that. As you noted, if inclement weather hit, the Bridgestones weren’t great.

Yep. Had a Lexis IS with factory tires that only lasted about 20k miles.

My new Lexus takes that into account. There are times when sitting at the light that it will show a message that the start/stop system has been temporarily disabled so that it can meet the needs of the climate control system.

I bet if you calculated the overall emissions saved from Toyota’s hybrids across their lineup to any other manufacturer’s EV lineup, the results would be pretty interesting.

You’d think that, but the plug-in hybrid variant of the Lexus RX (which would probably be this things closest competitor) starts at 70k.

I agreed right up until I found out that “Hattie Davis” doesn’t exist. Che hiring an actor to up the pressure on Jost is a pretty amazing bit.

I wholeheartedly agree. The Xbox One was the first system that became more than just a game system. Microsoft just kept adding more and more features that kept improving it.

Weathervanes might be Isbell’s best work since Southeastern, which might be of the best albums of the last decade.

If I were Ferrari, I’d be suing the shit out of the race organizers for their shoddy track ruining a very expensive PU.

Actually, SpaceX wrote the list and shared it with the FAA. The FAA reviewed the list and adopted it as the corrective action requirements. SpaceX got it done so quickly because it was their own investigation that generated the list in the first place.

This dispute was the thing that finally broke my complacency to cut the cord. Not being able to watch ESPN during college football pissed me off enough to sign up for a free trial of YouTube TV (which is cheaper than my current cable package).

Having Roland state in the film that he doesn’t care about the Tower shows that the filmmakers didn’t understand the books at all. That was probably the worst thing that they could have done with the character. The story exists solely because of Roland’s unshakable (and ultimately destructive) obsession with the…

Huge miss by the author of this piece. Craig’s show was complete lunacy.

He did the same with Dark Tower, but did it by shoving elements from SEVEN books into one action flick. He used a few characters names and some settings and then completely ignored the entire point of the series altogether.

I’m sorry... Dark Tower, you say?