I have absolutely no doubt that, as fashion does, things are going to swing back to the sedan. Not like the 60's Impala days of sedans, but better than they are now.

Yeah, that’s where I got most of my early driving in. We had some family property that had a s-10 work truck with a manual and some how a LSD. From about 12 to 16 I’d spend summers and christmas break putting on 50-100 miles a day all on private dirt roads. Destroyed the truck and the roads in the process. Had to fix…

Had an uncle that would let you start driving his Audi on back roads at around age 7 all the time. My cousins, brothers and I all thought is was the shit til fast forward today he’s letting our kids drive cars and tractors and the like and we’re all like NO FUCKING WAY!

Wouldn’t need to fly for 19 hours if it was supersonic.

The big mistake I made in my Tundra purchase 3 years ago was to forgo the cloth seats in the TRD pro in ‘15 for the leather in the Limited I ended up getting. For reasons I don’t understand my wife required a leather interior. The Pro had such a better ride too, but I can’t complain, still pretty happy with Tundra.…

Did most of the driving but spent a little time in the back. I think the must be some fancy option executive seating package or something, because this one was just a pretty standard bmw back seat with just a little more legroom. Wasn’t like an LS460 or anything, just meh.

I fuck with plush interiors. Yes they are hard to keep clean, but it’s more comfortable. Having just done 350 miles twice in a week in a 750Li I’m over spartan tight leather interiors. Shit got old by hour 4 each way. The weird massaging seats didn’t help, either.

+8 for the Cocoon reference. Referenced it in a generationally diverse meeting the other day and got nothing but blank looks back. 

Exactly, the fact that I used to fuck pretty much daily and it’s more like weekly now had much more to do with the fact that I could easily perform a 270 when coming to a stop and not the fact that I’m married with a kid and a demanding job now.

And we just became aware ourselves, it’s going to take a sec to reorganize practically everything we are doing to respond to that realization. It’s also going to take way less peevish attitudes to get people to go along with it.

Sensible, standard, straight lines.

Balance? Maybe I took too many geology classes, but I have no idea what you mean by that. The fossil record is full of animals and plants making drastic changes to the planet, crowding out other species and then dying out themselves.

B2B marketing. I tell the sales people what to say.

ESC just kills any chance to have properly stupid fun in a car anymore. There are so many modern vehicles that would be a blast (and mustang-dangerous) if you could turn ESC all the way off, but even in vehicles with ESC off buttons, it still keeps you mostly in line.

Pretty much all complex organisms are in the business of destroying other types of life. Think about it, think of any animal, it’s spending its whole day killing or leaching off of or digesting some other living thing. I’d urge you to be slightly less morose about being alive.

This is why populations decline. We reach a level of prosperity where all the handbrakes disappear, girls stop being impressed with sweet handbrake turns, and pretty soon we go extinct as a species.

That’s because it wasn’t possible without an unprecedented amount of money invested into the company and the ability to take insane losses the entire time. Growing revenue doesn’t necessary mean quality leadership, anyway.

Yeah, and I get it, if you can gin up some sensationalism by just omitting some facts, and it brings a couple hundred thousand visits to your article, it’d be hard to go out of your way to make your story sound less important and only get a few thousand hits.

From the article: “ While the F-35 did get all the benefits of concurrency, especially the pilot training aspect, there are hundreds of F-35s spread across the planet that will eventually need hardware and software fixes to bring them to the final standard—which hasn’t even been decided yet. These upgrades will have…

I meant for the US, and I was more responding to “And it was pitched under the guise of being cheaper and easier to maintain, which ultimately it’s turned out to be neither.”