I carried a Fluke 77 when I was an electronics tech. I still have it and it's great, if overkill, for my little arduino projects or whatever. I do have a HF special that I took to work, in an IT dept. It's good enough to check basic voltage or whatever, and I leave it in my desk job, nobody would steal it.

Not to mention 2/3 of them I see are black and white and ready to fly through town at 75 with the lights on because you went 40 in a 35.

I agree with everything you said up to the last two sentences.

There was a tike when the black GM turbo twins were on the top of my dream car list.

It’s tough. I would pay for the privilege to punch that fucking kid that wrecked his truck into the bikers. I also ride a bike in a redneck area and deal with people acting like I’m the asshole for being on the road. And I read this headline and wanted to be outraged. But I read the sign and laughed.

Except that Ford sold the nameplate in service of an EV CUV.

Totally agree. My friends have given me shit for not driving my Wrangler in the snow, much preferring FWD to drive in snow, sleet, and other general winter driving conditions. Unless it blasted a foot of snow, I wouldn't drive my jeep in the winter if I could help it.

I had a friend growing up who’s dad was a mechanic. He had a garage FULL of aircooled VW engines. Apparently back in the 60s and 70s, he did a lot of towing for the PA turnpike. And there was an alarming number of VWs that would break down coming up the mountain, and would just abandon them, rather than paying to tow…

That is the uber low budget sci-fi movie version of a car in 50 years.

In the 90s, Stephen King wrote two books at the same time using the same cast, but the stories go off in different directions, despite some similarities. They were Despiration and Regulators (released under his pseudonym Richard Bachman).

The 4.0 is pretty simple, and therefore pretty reliable. I’ve put over 100k on mine in the last 15 years with no issue, and I haven’t heard much trouble from other users.

Agreed. “ugly” isn’t a design language, I don’t know why chevy in particular is trying so hard to make it so.

The baby blue makes it somebody's grandpa's car, not a cop cosplayer, so points for that. But I'm still disinterested.

Western PA, my local gas station has ethanol free 90 octane.

That’s the big thing. As a car enthusiast (read: car blog reader) who has never driven a mustang or a Camaro, I hear time and again how well the Camaro handles and drives. Then I look at what they look at and see how aggressively ugly GM decided to make it,  and they wonder why they lag so far in sales.

I guess I am in the Alabama part  then. There's lots of good in the area too, but there is some redneck douchebags too.

Nice!

I’d love to see one of these things IRL.

You could just simplify that to “just don’t check Facebook. It’s always terrible.”

Agreed. The TJ was a big change, and was the beginning of making the jeep that was livible for a lot of people. Good heat, ac was in most, if it wasn't standard equipment, and the coils made the suspension much better than leafs.