There’s one around me in North Andover. Don’t know if it’s the same one, but this one is an older bald guy, drives like an asshole, so he seems to possess little sense of self preservation. I think it’s dark gray. Funny that I can’t recall the color! If it’s him, I’m surprised someone rode with him.

The other part here is that it is political suicide to raise the gas taxes, which should have likely been done years ago. By hitting EVs at double the average annual gas tax people pay, they’re actually hitting them at something closer to what the actual gas tax should be, but can’t raise them to. On top of that—at…

How would they move? Typical value I found of a house there from 2021 is $144k, 49th out of the 50 states (WV lowest) and median income is 50th at under $46k. If they even have paid-off property to sell, on average, it won’t get them to a much better place to live, though it would get them a downpayment and they’d…

You want the 2.0 N/A focus 5MT. Even DI only, it’s no worries. I went over 200k miles on mine and it was Corolla reputation reliable. Got totaled. 1.0 EB is a totally different (junk) engine—more expensive, not powerful, and not much better mileage, but I don’t think they sold many of them, anyway. Even my Focus ST…

Dump truck drivers are universally the worst drivers on the road, as it has been at least as long as I’ve been driving, which is 30 years and close to 1 million miles. They must only hire the most degenerate fucktards for the job. They’re either driving like they’re a teenager in a sports car/broke person in an Altima…

You don’t drive a Kia Rio off road or on a racetrack. There’s nothing wrong with your kayak if you just want to float around a bit in calm water, maybe do some light fishing, but like with cars, bikes or anything else, performance, capability, and quality costs money. You want to go on the ocean? It will not be a good…

You can build more boat for that price or less with marine ply and fiberglass. Even better, you can often find them already built by someone for near budget kayak prices, definitely budget if you don’t mind a little repair and paint work. My 17' CLC Charles something or other (it’s discontinued, but the Chesapeake LT…

Utility trailer and modify it to suit. That’s what I’m using for my 17' wood boats and bikes (if I need to move several of each at once). It can easily be designed to have vertically adjustable crossbars so that the bikes can roll on underneath and the kayaks will still be lower than even a wagon or the boats can be ke…

I remember when unpainted plastic bumpers were the sign you bought the stripped model almost nobody else was too cheap to buy, but now it’s a design feature.

There’s no real hotrodding the BRAT’s EA engine—it’s single port OHV head with 3 main bearings. I know nobody cares. Wrote it anyway.

So, this big ugly thing has less cargo space than my old Mk3 Focus ST, the one where the full size spare ate some of the space via raised floor vs the less performance oriented model. I hope there’s at least more rear seat room in exchange.

He seems like a typical Russian, so he’s probably doing this so he can tell himself and the world that he’s a victim who’s being unfairly cheated out of his rightful F1 seat and not face that he’s just a POS who sucks.

This makes sense when comparing a higher end vehicle for a longer loan period to a low end one that can accomplish the same job at the same monthly payment for a shorter term, but doesn’t work when someone is already at the low end of the market, particularly the current market where rates would be higher for a used…

I don’t understand the hostility to this simple and logical suggestion, the usefulness of such a class illustrated by all the people in financial trouble, many of which with good incomes. Sure, a lot of them are dummies who make poor decisions and will continue to do so, but plenty of people don’t fully understand the…

I can’t imagine the kind of eunuch who would find that eye tracking nag tech desirable. I assume it has to be shut off every time it’s driven? That’s enough to nope me out.

The absolutely only good and useful thing in modern infotainment systems is apple car play/android auto. Without that, they can shove these stupid tablets. Too simple a solution, I guess, and they can’t charge a subscription for it nor hobble capability in the future as part of a plan of forced obsolescence. But, hey,…

It’s simple: you drank, you don’t drive. Bunch of weak damn junkies making excuses and the lack of consequences and societal enablement means we all have to deal with intrusive annoyances on top of the rest of the problems they cause and the threats they pose instead of the real culprits getting what they deserve.…

I think that’s going pretty damn easy on them.

Then you’re just a fucking idiot—you know you’re drinking alcohol, end of excuses. I may have only been drunk a handful of times and only a couple to the point where I couldn’t do anything but lay down and I sure as shit knew I was drunk and way too drunk to drive well before that moment even if I didn’t restrict…

The lawyers should also be bundled into the back of the boat with their clients and dumped far out to sea. Sure, swimming with no hope of reaching shore is scary, but they’ll do it with the hope that the people mocking and laughing from the boat will change their mind and pick them up and I hear drowning is just like…