(approaches bridge, realizes they are too high by like 5')

You are an anomaly only in a narrative sense. There’s a culture of people out there that believe cars are an evil instruments of capitalist oppression. It’s small, but is exclusively democratic. As a result, there’s a lot of conservative messaging centered around “the woke lefties are gonna take your car…

Is the “neutering” you are referencing actually policies that were instituted by agencies, or just unwritten rules? I’m not disagreeing, I’m just curious which version of the very real neutering version you are getting.

Indeed, I just don’t know what it will lead to until it happens. The Chinese investing in production on our shores to sell us stuff throws a huge wrench into typical discourse around our relationship with them. And any big decisions that come of it will likely have an impact on the European’s/Japanese’s ability to…

3rd Gear is a fascinating exercise in contradicting partisanship. My money would be on Trump ripping up the IRA as soon as he gets in office just based on principle, which quite hilariously would make BYD more competitive here unless you tariffed/banned their products with more targeted legislation against them. Trump…

Heh, there’s a really pointed joke there about the thing looking better when it’s darker. The less of the finer details of the design you see, the prettier it gets.

Seriously, I’ve been yelling into the void about about a largemouth bass being the design model for Toyota for five years. I can’t believe we allow this to happen, let alone it spreads to freaking AM.

That angle makes the overall width look fine, but I still say that the bottom two chrome grille bars should be bumper. But to your point, that break in the center bottom bar is probably a sensor.

There’s a way to spin the joke about German pilots needing to speak to German ATC’s in English to suit this situation, but I’m not quite sure how to do it.

I mean, an AM GT car is the exact sort that I would expect to sacrifice a more square wheelbase and shorter overhangs for the sake of looks. It’s not supposed to be a track ripper, it’s just supposed to be sportier experience than like a 7 series/S class.

Ooof. The overall shape and rear three quarter are phenonmenal... but that gaping maw of a grille? JFC. It’s like they looked at all the whole Toyota “angry carp” design language for the front clip and went “HOLD MY GUINESS, I BET WE CAN FIT A BIGGER ONE ON THERE.”

There should be an Idiocracy remake where Texas is just one giant highway with like a million lanes. The only actual development is a singular Hardee’s where Austin used to be. 

I remember people making a big deal about getting to see the bottom of Perez’s car when it got craned off Monaco last year. I wonder if it took a year for the field to correctly copy the floor of the RB.

Related: There was a video going around on twitter yesterday of Alonso getting down on the ground and taking a really close look below the rear of a McLaren. While Max has made it sound like something is wrong with the RB, there also might be some right with McLaren that they were the first team to figure out this…

Not only that, it’s kind of good that in spite of all the weirdo holocaust deniers out there, the german military can sort of own the fact they were the bad guys in WWII.

My scorching hot take is that we’d be better of lying egregiously on social media, because eventually people won’t believe*anything* that shows up on it. The majority of shit is a lie in the first place, but appears reasonable enough to be believed.

I can’t remember the exact quote, but I recall Tony Stewart having choice words about Logano when he was early in his career. Basically that he was the worst offender of a culture shift that started after Jeff Gordon:

Logano specifically. He’s basically owned the move of intentionally missing a corner so you can run over the car ahead while also using it to slow you down. He did it to Byron pretty recently, and Kenseth at Texas ages ago. The latter of which came with some spectacular consequences.

You have any entire city built culturally around bike travel, everything else can and should be the absolute weirdest shit.

1st is awesome because you are finally seeing conservative culture reconcile these two facts that could not coexist forever: