A few years ago, I was working in northern MD, just a few miles south of the I-95 bridge across the Susquehanna river, when it was blocked but a truck or two blowing over. Then I-40 was blocked by fallen trees. Massive wind storm.

My wife’s US-spec ‘19 Cooper S doesn’t light the signals like an arrow anyway.

So, so nice. One of my neighbors picked one up at some point last year (it’s always hidden in the garage). He has driven several-year-old Corollas the entire 20 years I’ve lived here. Talk about treating yourself!

A zillion years ago, my girlfriend’s father bought her a Mazda 323 to take to grad school. Total stripper with a stick, which she couldn’t drive yet. ‘Teaching’ took about 20 minutes in the old Memorial Stadium parking lot.

Note that the author of the article didn’t actually ride one.

They have been on my shortlist for years but I already have 2 2-seat cars. One of them has no top and my wife already has her own convertible. My 12yo daughter, however, can spot Porsches from across town so it still may happen.

“The problem is that the instructor pilots, the check airmen as they are called, are leaving and resigning from that job because the work conditions are so horrid.”

I’m sure you’re right about the air-cooled 2V bikes. The reality is that, aside from the odd rip through a couple gears, I’m going to ride exactly as fast on the street on any bike bigger than 400cc.

NJ did the same some years ago. A friend of mine was denied entry to a military base in VA because the crack security team insisted his registration was expired. Nevermind the current registration card he was holding in his hand, look at the sticker!

Exactly.  When the local Chevy dealer is out of Bolts...

OMG.  “Be kind, rewind”.  Flashbacks!

My friends bought me a baseball cap that said “911 to the core” as a gag (it does make you gag) when I bought a 996 GT3 years ago. Fortunately, the text was black on a black cap so I can wear it at night.

VW Golfs do the same.

I have a couple Honda yard bikes and let my friend’s 13yo son ride one. Case study in frozen-with-the-throttle-pinned. Fortunately, with all of 3 or 4 raging horsepower, the outcome was just “let’s not tell mom why your jeans are so dirty”.

IIRC, one of the biggest failures was thanks to a guy who hedged his ‘risky’ sub-prime bundles with ‘safe’ mortgages. Then they all blew up.

First, thanks for saving me the typing. You did a better job than I would have.

Not quite the same thing but a friend of mine was moving and stumbled upon a brand new set of Ferrari Challenge Stradale wheels and tires in his basement that he had bought more than a decade before. The car was long gone and he had never even opened the boxes.

The numbers don’t really agree with your pessimism. EV market share in the US in the last 3 years has been 1.4, 1.8, and 2.5% (for first half 2021). The first adopters were 10 years ago. Anecdotally, besides the constant stream of Teslas, I see new ones every day - Mach-E, ID.4, Bolt, Kona, Volvo, i-Pace, Taycan.

Ouch, that’s painful.  I always install the new blade with the arm close to the glass.  Never really thought of it until a guy on the Lotus Turboesprit list cracked his brand new windshield in the same way you mentioned.  Expensive lesson for him, cheap one for me.

Yeah, I should have added “tread pattern so aggressive it’s loud to ME, two lanes over”!