Yeah, it’s a tough thing. Someone needs to invent a new word/phrase that encompasses the groupthink of NYC/Boston/LA/SF/Seattle into a single group. It’s not necessarily a political line either. It’s a way of thinking.

Yeah, I’m aware of those rules (I worked in an industry that worked with shipping / weather / climate). They’re woefully inadequate if you believe the climate science or even bother to look at weather patterns. When the wildfires were burning last year, smoke was setting up 100+ miles off the coast and blowing back…

It said it right in the article that he considered using the Obama era regs if California would agree to dropping their special status. Which BTW, would eventually mean we could probably have kei cars in California without needing expensive BS paperwork and testing every single time someone wants to get a Honda Beat.

Nice work ignoring all the facts and using reductionist logic to show your ignorance. 

Let’s call a spade a spade. Most of this is California being it’s typical self aggrandizing self. The automakers had to legally comply with California regs anyways. The Trump administration would have to first find a way to reverse that.

It actually wasn’t a bad cornering car. It had a REALLY wide track. 

I just love how happy Misha sounds while he’s doing this.

Ahhh, the Altima. Low credit? No credit? Ex took the couch with your leftover change? No problem, Nissan has a car for you. It comes complete with a gutless engine, soul sucking CVT, and enough room for you to have some buffer space between you and your born-out-of-wedlock children. Don’t worry, I’m sure you can…

I have to disagree with the hate for the car. The hate for the people who drove them, yes, but the W Body cars with the Buick 3800 Series 2 were super comfortable cruisers with great highway manners and had enough oomph to merge effortlessly with highway traffic. The interiors sucked but by in large, the seats were…

Don’t worry, this is how east coasters say hello to each other.

I don’t think they suffer from that many less issues. My friend that bought it (60k miles) had the entire engine replaced after only a month when it threw a rod. 

I think both of these takes are good takes. Obama met with King Abdullah twice in the first 7 months of his presidency. It’s been presidential policy for the last 3 presidents to coddle the Saudis.

I went back and forth to the UK about 8 times in 1 year and still didn’t earn status on British Airways. Somewhere in the middle, our company changed booking providers who defaulted to the lowest possible fair classes - which earned 25% tier credit instead of the “normal” 50%.

That deep, it probably gets left there as a fun relic to found by hunters or deep woods hikers unless the guy himself puts together a costly retrieval.

That’s awesome. I met up with a friend in LA for dinner. On the way, I pulled up to an intersection and saw a BMW 335i with it’s window down. I thought: “I wonder if I can time the pops so it’s right next to his face?”. I nailed it. When I looked in the rear view mirror, I realized it was the friend that I was meeting…

I’ve drove a lot of different flavors. I think my favorite would probably be the early V8S convertible or the later R convertible. As great as the coupe looks, you can hear the exhaust better in the convertible. In the coupe, with the windows up, the cabin is REALLY quiet. I drove around with the windows down most of…

I rented a Coupe R in LA recently. All these years later, still an amazing car.

I put this in the same category as the 30th anniversary Miata - special cars BECAUSE of the color. Still pretty special. In 20 years, there will be a slight premium on these. Nothing crazy but enough to say “I know what I have”.

I never saw this one coming. Dare I say, it’s way better.

I think that means there’s negative 20k miles left on the car before it’s a goner.