awful wheels

Impreza sedans (?!?) have never been beautiful, but this is ugly beyond the norm.

Why would any sane, competitive manufacturer focus on a fraction of the market?

Pursuit is less about the pursuer catching the target and more about just keeping them in sight until other forces can block / capture. Aircraft are hella expensive to operate, so without a car able to keep up with a fleeing suspect, it would be very easy for said suspect to evade police.

Think of it this way ... would you rather spend a couple/few hours in an overstuffed la-z-boy recliner or on a wooden dining room chair?

I’m not concerned with the color at all really, and only barely with the choice of fabric ... I am, though, utterly and completely missing those big comfortable seats. I love me some pillow top split bench (with power driver seat) so fucking comfortable for real driving, completely unlike the hard sport seats one…

Never knew they were called Crane flies. My Dad called them mosquito hawks and it is my understanding that they eat mosquitos.

People who can buy drop a near 6 figure sum for a car has a garage. 30k car? Not so much. Maybe it’s the New Yorker in me, but having spend my entire life in apartments, I just don’t see how millions of people in urban area without a garage will be able to deal with that fact.

flip flops were known as thongs in the US until the ‘60's

fraudulent cover-up

Starman, 1984: “Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast.”

Normally I try not to defend Gawker writers, but please note that this is (a) a “blog” (hence not a publication with actual professional editing), and (b) Ms King is merely re-reporting information from other sources, and not writing as an investigative journalist. How much ‘subject matter expertise’ do you need to…

Perhaps you should apply bug repellent rather than makeup.

I also know far more people who’ve been killed in minor accidents when not wearing a seatbelt

I am utterly amazed at the sheer ignorance and trite ‘animal rights’ aspects of many of the completely worthless, and often completely false, arguments against milk I’m reading in the comments here.

“sent to an editor”

“the 5 freeway” ... “I-5 freeway” ... why do so many people use this bizarrely redundant structure to describe this road? Interstate 5 is normally written “I-5" and pronounced “eye five”. That’s all you need to say, that’s all you need to write. I understand that SoCal drivers are conditioned to specify by means of a…

There are some very simple, albeit potentially expensive, infrastructure fixes that could ameliorate pedestrian/car interactions substantially: build fucking pedestrian BRIDGES at busy intersections.

... which makes me think, how well would autonomous vehicles handle driving in unmarked / unpaved open areas with random objects / vehicles / campsites / etc. spaced in no definite pattern? I’m picturing some of those large unpaved temporary campgrounds that are often just in an open field, with cars and trucks and…

cheaper (minus travel), more tropical, and less Floridian