That the opening offer from the company-side was a 50% raise is proof that this is a free market problem: What these people do is immensely valuable, and there aren’t people lining up to replace them.

Seriously, and that whole upper level to the dash is scrambling my brain. Get that shit out of here, put in a normal gauge cluster, and drop the windshield for another 6" of forward visibility.

And furthermore, it’s not like the CVT is a flawed concept, it’s just that Nissan makes the absolute worst ones on the market.

lmfao, this is the epitome of the old george carlin bit about how republicans only care about you until you are born, and after that you can get fucked

The Good: NASCAR needs 23XI more than the people that own 23XI need NASCAR (Hamlin could retire any year now, and MJ could do literally anything else). 23XI is probably the only org that has that kind of leverage over NASCAR, and I’m all for them using the hell out of it.

god, that new logo they came out with a few years ago looks so damn dumb

I don’t disagree, but I don’t even think the TOS being long, dumb, and bad is even the point here; it’s trying to apply that TOS (particularly the arbitration clause) to a person who didn’t actually agree to it, and who was receiving a different service than the person that did. Applying the document that liberally sou…

I would have called this NP 10 years ago. Now it’s a goddam gift from god.

That’s what I’m thinking too, like it’s a low-background-radiation steel that is needed for things like MRI machines.

I don’t hate the idea of GAP insurance being a necessary evil for you to finance beyond your means, but IMO the better critique is a more general one: More debt is not a good long term solution to increasing car prices. It creates a dangerous cycle where they keep getting more expensive because lenders will keep on…

Indeed, although soulful is probably just the wrong word for it. Anyone who drives and E46 M3 back to back with a G82 M4 can tell the former has a totally different sensation to it. IMO Clarkson is just doing a really bad job of expressing preference for something that a lot of other enthusiasts would agree with him on…

He stands up as soon as the seatbelt sign goes off on the plane.

Woah, I was today-years-old when I found out these had AJ35 motors in them. Good to know I have another reason to laugh whenever I see one.

It seems like Vin’s own car, the “bolt on” modified car with coilovers, an exhaust, an intake, and a tune is probably the goldilocks solution.

Bingo. People could have responded negatively to EV’s either because they were genuinely curious about the issue and just caught some bad faith reporting, or they could have actively sought out the confirmation bias. Just posting these results when you know better is doing the former. 

Do it, you won’t!

U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that was parked on a trail

Funny part about 2nd is that The Orange Man is constantly yelling about how he is the only one who would ever do this exact thing that democrats are already doing.

Counterpoint to most of what you pose here: Unless AM radios are either an optional extra, or a delete with a credit attached, I don’t expect any of this savings to make it back to the person buying the car. See what the industry has done to the spare tire as an example.

NP myself as well to huff the nostalgia, even as a millennial. I associate these with being in a car-seat in the back and having happy meal on the way home from pre-school.