On work time, when I’m driving around the speed limit, I listen to NPR, occasionally switching over to the traffic report on AM if I’m approaching a fork to see if I should take an alternate route. Rest of the time, I listen to music from an iPod Classic that lives in the car. There’s a main playlist I call “Moroccan…

I do the same with a car-dedicated iPod Classic, though I cut down my main playlist of random stuff that isn’t background mood music to a little over 1000 songs. Of course, I’m 44 and remember planning mix tape cassettes I’d keep in a briefcase-sized organizer, so this is still high tech to me. I don’t think I could…

Montreal. The Jarama looks weirder in person than in photos—odd proportions.

That’s another thing about the journalist-perpetuated myth—Mazda seems to like to hobble the shit out of the handling contrary to the driver’s car reputation. Today, they’ve ditched the multilink rear and put in a 1985-era torsion beam and the original 3 had visible negative camber in the rear as if FWD and all the…

That can’t be true—they said they downgraded the rear suspension to beam axle to increase interior space! If that wasn’t true, it would mean they did it for the speculated reason of cost savings, but they wouldn’t cheap out while trying to move upmarket. [/s]

Except that they’re really not all that cheap.

Can concur. Test drove a Mazdaspeed3 and minus the better acceleration, found it largely inferior to the standard 2.3 hatch I already had.

Me, neither. Had a 2006 Mazda3 manual because I read how fun to drive it was and the competitors were uninteresting, VW, and/or didn’t have a hatch. Turned out to be about a step above a regular Civic and was a massive downgrade from my mk1 Subaru Legacy wagon in almost every way but interior noise and safety. Rusted…

I think the 5300 looks even more squashed in person. I wouldn’t call them ugly, but I wouldn’t call them beautiful, either. I think dramatic and interesting fit. That green in particular looks fantastic.

Yeah, that’s barely a 20% downpayment on something low end and hard to find around here (Essex county, MA) and there are far more expensive places than this. Any living accommodations that cheap has wheels and/or is somewhere nobody else wants to be. Mortgage calculator tells me that’s about the equivalent of a payment…

Why didn’t they incorporate the number 14 in the logo? Even the number of larger dots in the center of the cluster number 15 missing it by one! Subaru’s badge is the constellation Pleiades, but the number of small stars in the logo reflect the number of companies that were merged to form Fuji Heavy Industries,…

Hahahaha, WTF, I don’t know how, but Frankly that looks better than Stephenson’s vision.

THERE TIRES DON’T HAVE EAR KEEPING THEM INFLADED!!!! THATS HOW THEY HIDE THE KIDS!!!! THERE IN THE TIRES!!!1!!!1

I think it’s a competition to see who can be the most outrageous hypocrite at this point. It’s so blatant and loud that they seem proud of themselves for the ever-lower levels they find.

And he is an abject coward. The only time he acts in a way that weak people think is strong is when he is completely insulated from retaliation. He’d be on his own, so there’s no way he’d try to fight back.

I was surprised to see them as I thought they could only come with trump, Gadsden, and blue line flag desecration flags/stickers. 

I work in telecommunications and have taken my Focus ST with summer performance tires up steep dirt roads with wash-out ditches running down and across them. With snow, the pegleg Econolines can’t make it up, but the ST can with no problem on winter tires. I just have to be a little bit more careful with wheel…

I had a Lockheed P-38 (does that count?) and a Lotus hat in HS and a 555 Subaru rally team one after HS that made me friends with a Greek guy in Delphi who owned an Impreza RB5 despite us not speaking a common language. I think the latter qualifies more as sports team apparel instead of manufacturer (would that be the…

Same here! My first word was “truck” (not sure why it wasn’t car, but I might just have been swearing and it was misinterpreted) and my mother claimed I could ID pretty much every car we saw when I was two—make and model—reportedly embarrassing the other kids with my savant abilities, but my boomer father was into “Wor…

And those are long-term jobs that would put us in a leadership or at least be a leader on the global market for green tech. Shit manufacturing jobs making tchotckes that could be done by anyone who can tie their own shoes are (largely) gone and we shouldn’t be trying to get them back.