that’s heavy

derogatory term for people who ride sport bikes. in my neck of the woods (Chicago) you can usually tell squids apart from enthusiasts by the lack of helmet (or even shoes), weaving in and out of moderate traffic at high speeds and a general lack of traffic law obedience.

not all sport bike riders are squids but all…

as other commentors have pointed out, they may be maintaining them to hedge against having to give them back at some point.  :shrug:

doesn’t seem like they were.  unless I missed it somewhere else in the article where they replaced the fuel pumps?

Given the description of all the potential damage to fuel pumps, DPF, etc., I wonder if any of this will be disclosed when this press car is finally sold as a used car.

I can’t imagine this particular vehicle having the same reliability as one that has never been accidently filled with gasoline.

well, if we’ve actually seized them, and there is no way the original owners can get them back, why not just scrap them?  It would likely be pennies on the dollar but then we don’t have to pay to maintain them anymore

Didn’t we seize offshore bank assets too? Why not use the US currency they had squirreled away in US banks to cover the upkeep?

But also, why upkeep them at all?  Why is it our problem?  If my car gets impounded because I didn’t move it on alternate street cleaning day, the city of Chicago doesn’t go out there and wash…

E39 M5. And if that was too flashy, a debadged E39 540i 6MT with sticky rubber was even more sleepy.

easy enough to debadge

I think it’s a range problem. Aircraft like that can’t fly over CONUS above Mach 1, and even F-15s, IIRC, require a midair refueling to cross the Atlantic (not to mention the Pacific). So if an F-15 with external tanks and 1-2 pilots has to top off for gas over the ocean, a passenger version with 8-12 passengers will…

There are peaks and lulls. I’m not saying a 14hr shift is easy, but there can be some downtime. 2pm is a good example: lunch rush is over, dinner hasn’t started. There is time to restock, clean, and prep for dinner rush. A good manager (and I had a good one when I worked fast food) will have their folks sit and relax…

When speaking about limited access highways in daytime and good weather, 55mph is too slow, 85mph is probably too fast (for most people).

I have found myself cruising at 80-85mph on Chicago area interstates just to “keep up with traffic” because I consider serious speed differentials to be dangerous (not based in any…

Some of the largest in the U.S., dozens of time.  Hence the last part of my comment.

I’ve had my Apple Watch go into “fall mode” after I’ve eaten shit while mountain biking. After I’ve dusted myself off and made sure I didn’t break anything, I’ve started riding again and my watch starts beeping at me at which time I tell it I’m ok and to cancel EMS.

Seems you could do the same for the phone? If it…

I dunno man. Not hard to add the “-ah” to the end of “Porsh”

But I’m also not going to go around saying “Folksvagen” or “bay em vay”

It’s not just you.  I saw that top down and immediately thought of the Charger/Challenger

I see what you did there

You can’t know our pressures, and stresses, despite how much you think you do. There are things we deal with, questions we ask of ourselves and discussions we have with our friends, that you wouldn’t be able to understand.

I just looked up Bouncie as well.  Looks like it’s tough to hide.  A smart thief or carjacker could unplug it within minutes. 

NASCAR has published a map of the course.