This makes an alarming amount of sense. Have you seen this reported somewhere, or just a hunch?

I’m hoping the shit really hits the fan when the push for a nation-wide railworkers strike comes back in another year or so. If it happens, there’s a nonzero chance we get forced into another Conrail situation. Except this time it’s all 4.5 of the Class I railroads that need to be nationalized, rather than just the…

I saw Madeon live a couple years ago in Chicago. The whole show was fantastic, but Shelter and Love You Back were an out-of-body experience.

Slight variation on this: Somebody in advertising told me once that we’ll never see anything like the old VW “Lemon” ads again, because now the average person takes themselves way too seriously to appreciate that sort of humility.

And it’s not just the sedans. When I drive my Mustang, I get antagonized by people with stuff like SRT8/Hellcat Durangos as much or more than anything else.

Another weird wrinkle is the lack of inspections you need for tags. I lived in Michigan for 4 years, and one of the wildest things I noticed was how many rusted out and half-wrecked vehicles that would never pass a roadworthiness checkup elsewhere were still rolling around.

Regardless of the valid meaning for of this charade, I feel like using a bunch of Toyota branding to set up a fake press conference where you impersonated them would get this activist group sued into oblivion. 

I don’t think anyone really needs an explanation. Mid 2000's to early 2010's Top Gear was awesome, but it was starting to go a bit stale even before sandwich-gate happened. There were a few more gems during the late years and Grand Tour, but the dead horse has been thoroughly beaten.

I always found it genuinely hilarious that the spiritual home to the American automobile industry is also so incredibly hostile towards it, through the worst roads in America and outrageous insurance rates/legislation.

What sucks is that it seems to me as the mainstream media is reporting this as an indictment of the EV market in general. Public confidence in EV’s has enough of an uphill battle on it’s hands, it doesn’t need to be catching all this collateral damage from King Chud.

This is the correct answer. “Fun Manual and Easy Maintenance” is the starting argument for the C5 Vette.

To some people, this is fun! Not me, but I won’t kink-shame.

Right? Even though I don’t agree with Lewin’s thoughts on the movie in general, there wasn’t much straight-up fodder for hardcore gearheads and racing fans. It was a drawn out story about grief and family drama, with racing as a sort of sidecar.

Agreed, but I don’t know if you can prove that. I don’t really know if there’s any proof unless there’s some camera footage to ID the owner driving. Maybe there’s some injuries, but that’s a prayer for *proof*.

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The last gen Silverado’s were the worst of both worlds. They were way too high and poorly aimed. Everyone I know that had one would get flashes from oncoming constantly when their low beams were on. 

Part of this increase can be explained by a nationwide trend toward riskier driving practices in recent years.

The hilarious irony of it is that the trucks were historically the good thing about GM, while the smaller cars were the rolling disasters. Meanwhile, the current gen small block has had major issues with the lifters since its inception, and these little crossovers are actually quite good? What a world.

If anything, I’m thinking that beat up STI is a better choice for a “fun” car, assuming a project is your idea of fun. Then use the other 30 grand on the best actual daily you can get.

Just as maddening when running into the same issue regarding greenhouse gas emissions. We made people’s lives great in the 20th century with a bunch of shit that wasn’t sustainable beyond a few generations. Now your going to expect people to willingly correct that? Nope, for the same reason that somebody who loved…