Because they’re unaware dipshits. I don’t think it occurs to them that they’re not only undesirable to most, but that a lot of prospective buyers will assume it’s been beaten on because of them.

It’s amazing how little shame people feel—not only is this guy an asshole for wanting to prevent more housing from being built, but he’s essentially proclaiming how much of a lazy wuss he is to use a short walk in an area known for its year-round good weather as an argument against it. Why even got to local shops if…

It’s a cosmic law that safety has to be annoying, intrusive, and/or a hurdle to getting anything done. Sounds like she’s got effective bodyguards who take their job seriously.

Even as a generally vindictive person against egregious behavior, I agree. Prison is there to make profits, punish, and contribute to systemic oppression maintain some sense of order, not rehabilitate. They are expensive and ineffective at anything else. I was reading a while ago about a prison island for rapists and…

I live surrounded by nice, winding roads frequently interspersed with public woods, but I won’t ride a bike on them. There isn’t a shoulder (nor sidewalks most of the time), but even if there was, I’d be hesitant with the drivers drifting all over the damn place. Saw a woman in her 50s on a group ride get hit a few…

While I definitely see those Beetle hood kits, the effect to me is more PT Cruiser … those aren’t considered retro cool yet by people too young to remember that they sucked, are they? I imagine it’s a matter of time, but I’m not ready for that.

My favorite part is the creative workarounds—a cheat against the spirit of the rules, though not strictly a violation of them. Brawn’s eponymous team’s championship largely came from that. I guess they can still misdirect the press or just bore them with tech-speak. It’s not like most people would even know what it…

I don’t know where you are, but it’s exactly the same north of Boston. Is there a “cool” mom FB group they go to find out what’s in or out for school pickups?

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You can’t set a db limit outside a specially built site and have it mean anything. What equipment, when was it calibrated, what ambient sound level, what ambient temp and humidity, what angle, what distance? Even if the typical cop wasn’t stupid and this was as simple as setting up equipment with a tape measure, that…

Ferrari has been diluting their brand for years with what they license it to. At least an SUV is a vehicle. Most of what these high end products are really about is showing off wealth, anyway, and an SUV means you can bring more friends or “friends” out to cruise the nightclubs or promenade.

If the often challenging aesthetics of some of their cars, terrible attitude toward customer ownership while selling their brand out to all kinds of crap, and ubiquity in rich areas hasn’t apparently cost them any customers, I don’t see why selling an SUV would.

I don’t know anything about these racers, so maybe it’s pretty normal, but that seems like a pretty weak power to weight ratio.

The switches in my ST sound like the opposite of GM where there’s a detent for auto up or down, but it usually just moves until I release the switch unless I hit the detent in a very particular way I’ve only ever managed to get by chance.

I wish I had some of mine on video, but definitely not for outside distribution!

I don’t know, but I’m going to look when I get home as that sounds like someone whose work I could enjoy.

The internet could have been the new Library of Alexandria, but instead they created social media and each new fad iteration finds a way to be worse than the last by building up a new, ever-dumber legion of empty, narcissistic morons. It’s like how taking out one brutal crime boss leaves a vacuum to eventually be…

I’ve had to borrow my BiL’s ATS and, with 2 mandated astronaut ejection seats in the back seat for my little nieces, I couldn’t see shit under 6' tall out of the back. So, it’s not just the overly tall vehicles, it’s anything with obscuring cargo that it’s helpful for and I’m also happy to not have to wait as goddamn…

The bottom end cars were good for someone expecting to die before it would be old enough to have problems. For everyone else, they’re often poorer value for money than just one step up in class where you could usually get usefully more space, power, better build quality, less NVH, better reliability, resale, and safety…

I didn’t get that, either. Why is it a problem that a company that employs creative talent can protect their designs from some POS company employing talentless thieves that makes junk that looks like the other company’s product? Design your own shit! Quality is optional. This is more a general comment for potential…