Right wing wussbags need echo chamber safe spaces for their bigotry, since being presented with facts that contradict their narrative and being called out for being a shit stain in any place inhabited by even just semi-decent people makes them cry as their fantasy collapses. It’s as if you can’t even convince…

Very interested in either one, but the pickup would depend on its towing capability (my needs would be modest).

For the mower, you’ll probably want to buy a few of the large batteries. We had one and IIRC, we’d get about an hour out of a battery. Much nicer to use than a gas model, though. Also tried a manual push mower, but it was very picky about the grass—too thick and it would jam, too sparse and it wouldn’t cut, mix of…

Not having kids is probably akin to not drilling another oil well and I don’t have any. I also don’t drive much for recreation only and won’t buy something that gets mileage under about 30 mpg. I recycle as much as possible even though I strongly suspect the recycling doesn’t actually get recycled since they don’t…

If it was that old, the roads now would be much better . . . except we’re talking about Rhode Island, so maybe not.

I was thinking someone from the DMV or a law maker got stuck behind one getting onto a highway and got pissed off about it.

I’d bet I’ve used my Focus ST to do more truck stuff than 99% of the lame shit trucks like this Ram Daytona get used for.

Someone needs to follow the money and see how much of a kickback these pigs see from the tow company. Not that it would matter as even murder doesn’t seem to come with consequences.

For everyone concerned about this leading to revocation of registrations of antiques, I think the operative language in this is that they were not designed for North American roads while the antiques in question passed the necessary NA regulations for their time. Of course some of those are even less safe than a Kei…

Pot holes should be expected conditions to engineer to—these are boring daily drivers, not exotics or lightweight track cars. I’d find so much as a needed alignment to be unacceptable (never needed one even after hitting much bigger stuff than potholes), never mind damaged parts, but from a company that can’t even…

I think when people talk about reliability, they’re not assuming the sliding scale VW apologists enthusiasts use. 100k miles is nothing for any modern car or even a lot of pretty ordinary cars from the ‘80s.

Manual Mk3 Focus. I think the secret was out on these as the prices for them went up even before the pandemic craziness, but they were steals on the used market for a few years thanks to the bad rep from the DCT and with being Fords. I thought of buying one just to have as a loaner for people or whatever. For $10k, I…

I think they had a bunch of issues with the engines, too—leaking injectors, HPFP, and a few other things I forget. I had a regular 1st gen 3 hatch and test drove the hell out of a Speed3, but wasn’t really impressed with it over the standard car (which I also wasn’t impressed by)—ride was shit and mileage was terrible…

It gets that cold in New England and the only manual of 7 I had that took any issue with the cold was a ‘74 260Z where it was very reluctant to shift to 2nd for the first few miles, but it also had the 10-year old original fluid in it and it still shifted, I just had to be more deliberate and slow. If it’s very cold,…

My first book was almost that scenario before becoming something completely different when the two main characters refused to cooperate with the story. They were in a ‘Cuda, though. It seems too obvious that someone living in a van would want to kill people.

He can’t. It’s a buzzword he’s been programmed by the organ grinder to say, but not really know what it means.

English is confusing! You’ll pick it up eventually.

Johnny Lawrence needs to pick up a Bronco Raptor to park out front of the Eagle Fang Karate dojo.

Wheelbase was my immediate thought, as well.

Have you ever been in a wreck, had a sudden injury, or had anything dramatic happen to you? I’ll tell you that at least one type of normal reaction is to get the fuck away from the danger and/or carry on like it didn’t happen (sometimes, your priorities in the face of a near-miss with death can be surprisingly…

Not so dramatic as that—Max is just a petulant bully and this is how that type acts. It’s more like: “Wah, I’m grabbing what I want and if you don’t let me have it, I’ll hit you!” than anything nefarious. He’s the worst kind of bully, too—the kind that never admits being wrong and whines and plays victim when someone…