It requires you to equip a bomb rune and weapon or bow, face generally south (no one knows why it only works when facing south)

The Mitsubishi branch in Brazil have some level of freedom from the mothership. So they still has some investments on rally competition. This year Mitsubishi did this L200 with a 5 litre V8 (don’t know the engine source) as a flagship at the Rally Dos Sertões (the most important rally from the country).

“If you don’t recognize Kleinschmidt, I encourage you to look her up.”

“Due to inventory shortages we know we’ll be able to rip _someone_ off, so if that someone isn’t you, pound sand.”

Good! This is how it should have always been.  Now make it so we can order certain things WITHOUT having to get other things that we do not want. 

I like the central controls, your gear shift, ignition, windows are all in one spot.

Contrary to popular belief—and especially for that type of gear selector—the car would have just ignored your input if you had turned it, or flashed a warning.

the 2020 Pacific’s has the transmission selector right next to the radio dial. they are the same shape just a different size. This was rental for me, so i wasnt super used to it, but twice i found myself holding the “shifter” about to crank the radio.

Mk7 Golf has the CD player stuffed in the glove box (where the brain of the infotainment center actually lives). I had mine for almost 4 years before I even realized it had a CD player. 

For a feature, I would probably say when automakers offered a factory CD changer mounted in the trunk. Better hope you loaded some good stuff in there. 

I think all car controls should be in the center column. I don’t think it’s weird, but whatever.

It’s easier for the government entity to go “Well it’s because we say so”.

I really wish the SCCA and SEMA would throw their weight around more as lobbying/advocacy groups for this sort of thing.

There’s literally a dozen of us! They can’t arrest us a.......

And yet it’s incredibly hard to resist because it always sounds good to most people, and only a small subset would care enough to be vocal or to push back.

They already have annual safety inspections.

This amorphous idea of “safety” has been used as bludgeon by the gov’t so many, many times.

I live in CT and considering the absolute shit boxes I’ve seen with Maine plates on them I’m actually quite confused. There are PLENTY of rusted-out, crap cans blowing smoky exhaust that fit into the same category of unsafe and polluting that Maine will happily give you a tag for under the guise that it ‘used to…

This is a pretty classic case of Bureaucratic Double-Down. What’s happening now is they realized they fucked up, but are too prideful to backtrack. It’s easier for the government entity to go “Well it’s because we say so”. The only remedy right now is for some Delica enthusiast to sue the state, and then the facts…