Do A Thing Every Day. DATED?

Wow to all these comments. My 6th grade daughter performs Irish Dance. Every so often, there’s a competition (called a “feis”, pronounced “fesh”), where we go and sit mostly sit around bored unless our own kid is dancing and complain to each other about the poor organization. The children cheer each other on, offer…

1991. Winter in Baltimore. My riding/racing buddy JT stops by one night with the latest FZR600 he put together from random crashed bikes. “Damn, this thing rips. Put your shit on and go for a ride!” So I do.

I don’t understand why that is true. They’re not employees of Lordstown Motors. How could they be inside traders?

Agree it should have been in the article but this exactly the function short selling performs. It incentivizes people to uncover the kind of negative information found in the report.

Maybe not quite at the same level but someone did something similar with an E30 M3 a while back.

Calling it a Bronco Sport was a mistake.  I guess it’s obvious if you’re actually in the market for it but I honestly thought it was a trim line of the Bronco.

I was all worked up until I realized the “Bronco Sport” is not a trim line of the Bronco.  Since I’m not particularly interested in either, I completely missed that.

3rd gear: it’s very easy to believe someone who spent 20 years commuting/working long hours could have a serious change of heart after a year of working from home. “VW group strategy chief” is probably not going to work out over Zoom in the long term.  Looking at his web site, he’s probably in his late 50s. Not a bad…

A friend of mine is living his best life right now. Engineer for Apple out in the Bay Area. Drives the canyons (and Laguna Seca a couple times) in a chrome orange Elise. His daily is an E39 M5.  He has a Ducati of some kind too.

It’s a SRAM XX1 cassette with a titanium nitride coating. The chain and a bunch of bolts have it too. Everyone calls the finish “oil slick”.

I finally got the first ride in on #13 from that list this morning. Normally, I throw out “I’ve spent more on dumber things” but this probably raises the bar.

Oh man. My neighbor has an inop jet ski that he’s been ‘fixing’ for 10 years. So long that the trailer rusted apart and needed its own repair. Every spring is the year I’m going to hear a ring-ding-ding but it never quite happens.

Easier to remember in metric: 300km. :)

Especially to VW owners.

As others noted, Adam is wrong about the maximum but consider how you charge at home. Roundly, 7.2kw is going to add about 20-25 miles/hr of charging.  How often is that going to be limiting? I’ve had a Volt and an e-golf and charged on 110 using the included chargers, which charged at 4-5mi/hr.

It’s OK, because no-one actually read your (absolutely awesome) story in repackaged form, they just went straight to the comments to bitch about slideshows.

My understanding is that locomotives have to be diesel-electrics because it’s just not practical to develop a transmission that could start a 10 million lb (or whatever they way) train from a dead stop. 

$25k gets you a stripper FWD Tiguan. An equivalent Tiguan SEL Premium R-Line is $41k and only has 184hp. Tunes are limited for both vehicles but a Tiguan goes from 184 to 250, while an Arteon, which seems to have essentially a Golf R drivetrain, from 268 to 375 (!).

Agree. My 75yo dad with marginal knees drives a CLK250 and a Volvo V60 without complaint. I’m 6' tall and full size SUVs are absolutely more effort to get into than a normal sedan.