Beginning during COVID, the roads here in NYC were packed with cars with (presumably fake) Texas temp plates. NYPD, dull witted and totally lacking in resources (/s) as they are, took a while to cotton on to this painfully obvious practice but have finally begun issuing some pretty severe penalties.

We need more roads like these. Personally, I seek them out (and the Jackie Robinson) in the hope that inept drivers stay on I-95.

It’s beginning to change back again, I think. I know several people who were going to buy property there but pulled out. There has got to be a sweet spot for development where long time residents can stay without living in fear.

Also, things that impress punters in showrooms aren’t necessarily the things people appreciate once they own the car. One generation of touch screens, then people will be clamoring for buttons; similar to the first digital dashboards in the 1980s.

You mean hang out by themselves?

Damn, I was hoping to be all impressive.

I think there is definitely truth to this. Having worked in restaurants for a long time, black people (especially males) are totally underrepresented in tippable positions, as they earn much less because of implicit bias. I don’t imagine it’s any different with online reviews.

They had me until the interior. Looks like the offbrand diving watch I bought for twenty swedish crowns back in 1991. It leaked at 2 metres.

Uhh... aside from a big bump in sales when the new model arrived in 1990, the MR2 did pretty badly, too. Best years for North American sales were 1984 and 1985, with 38K and 31K sales (those two years represent more than half of all MR2s sold in the twelve years the first two generations were available). Sales dropped…

I’m still not entirely clear as to whether Hans G. Lehmann was a real person, a composite of many photographers, or just a false front for car manufacturers to release “spy shots” to build interest in upcoming products.

Sounds like an R33 Skyline GTS-25.

Either Tesla will take over everything, or spotting a running Tesla will be a major event in 2035.

Which is why we need more drunk driving checkpoints. If people get caught and slapped on the wrist for .05 then they might check themselves before they continue on that path and end up hurting someone or just wrecking their own lives.

Yes there is. Biden is a principled conservative (like a somewhat younger Eisenhower), while most of the Republican party are alt-right trolls.

True, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t rather have an Ioniq or (if I was wealthy) a Lucid. If I wasn’t wealthy enough to worry about Lucid’s survival that new Cadillac thing looks amazing.

Waaaayyyy ahead of you there.

The world is truly sick. Meanwhile, people go to jail for attempting to have their kids attend a better school than they can afford.

I just put a 300% padding, then when the buyer offers 25% less I am happy to accept.

Yep. On the other hand, there is probably a simple question that can be asked (does the AC work or somesuch) which will have the same effect - pissing off the brown M&M guy usually just leads to frustration.

I have been pretty poor for most of my life (as in wearing 100% hand-me-downs until I got my first job in High School), and it has always enraged me when people have wealth and use it on absolute garbage. It’s like eating a hot dog in the street, seeing some douche spending $1,000 on a gold covered steak at a Salt Bey…