Equal parts fascinating as it is disappointing for Russel. While I am the hard-ass that would say the team is responsible for staying above the weight limit in any conventional situation, one would think there’s an argument for weighing the cars without wheels just to avoid this problem. A team getting punished a team …

Seriously, my kingdom for any player in the media to call out Ford’s shitty propaganda here. They did a whole self-congratulating media tour about how they were putting all the money in the world into this program. Now we are supposed to care that when you roll that investment into the unit cost, they are losing money…

Oh believe me, that’s at the top of the list for weird little project ideas in my head for years... if I actually had the time for it. 5.3's of that era are legendary and plentiful.

The catch is that motor. Those things are guaranteed to nuke themselves somewhere between 120-150k miles. At that point, the car is worth more in pieces than it is put together.

$1,800 is worth the gamble that the head gaskets aren’t *about* to blow, but this thing is right in the window where that starts to happen. Worth the risk IMO because running cars just don’t come in for less than 2k anymore, let alone a big comfy cruiser.

Related: Most of my friends are significantly below the mean when it comes to basic car knowledge. Like a month ago, one of them bought a transmission recall-era Focus. Of course they waited until after the fact to ask me if it was a good buy.

Beat me to it with “red flag”. Maybe there’s no direct through line between a cracked windshield and not doing maintenance, but it’s still not something you should be trying to rationalize in the first place. 

I am absolutely dying at “yeah, but damn” as the response here. Probably the best and least confrontational response? They should teach cops to talk like this in de-escalation class.

maybe not brutalist/beautiful, but perhaps there’s something profound about a lie that both the person hearing and telling know is a lie, and they both know that the other knows its a lie, which is some how truthful?

These things are insane, because you can see the “actual” pipe turning down to that hole through the fake tips. I want to say there was an article on here about this weirdo assembly, and while I can’t remember what the actual explanation for why they existed, but I remember it being really dumb.

I think its less about “boner for real exhaust tips” and more about how this looks crappy when you can just see empty space behind the bumper through it. Worse yet if you see an actual unfinished downturned pipe for a tip. 

I mean, this is what every passenger vehicle is heading for at this point.

The thought of that premise being applied to modern Suburban’s and Expedition’s somehow sounds even funnier.

the 1 time a year most of these guys will need to haul something ***that wouldn’t already fit into a 3-row BOF SUV***

Whoops, forgot Rush. Ah well, gets the benefit of the doubt of being from before the time of DTS.

Ahahaha hell yes. As someone who works in construction, I strongly identify this. “Where’s the nearest door on this document? Does it look like it’s 3' wide? Ok, set the scale from there.”

I mean, this lines up with what the rest of the market is doing. The high-end EV as a boutique item has more options out there than interested consumers. Everyone is just clamoring for the affordable options now.

A modern redux of Grand Prix is the sort of retread (pun intended) that’s easy to get behind. Two dramatic F1 movies in nearly a 60 year span is not remotely an over-saturation. If anything, it probably only feels tiresome to people that weren’t interested in the first place.

It’s not uniquely a Volvo problem. Even though ICE’s have been running their throttle and brake-by-wire through the same CANBus that manages infotainment for decades now, EV’s apparently don’t keep the strict driving functions as far removed from everything else, and it makes random bugs more likely to cause serious…

Indeed, and modern systems are pretty much still this rudimentary. The vessel’s GPS location and a compass are still the only inputs, there’s just more software there to handle a literal destination.