OK, OK, so this might not be as cynical as it looks. Use the e-mode for your daily commute and then drive normally everywhere else. I could make it to work and plug in for the day, then drive home and plug in for the night-without using any gas. Assuming I could plug in at both locations.

Also, Okafor was a stud in college. He will always be a hero here in CT. But only locals thought he would be a good NBA player.

All the respect to players who really weren’t ever great-but hang in there for long careers. 13 seasons as a career back up is impressive.

Very cool little 4X4. Lovely to have to mess around with. A friend of mine had one with a stick in the early 90's and that thing could go anywhere. We took offroad on MX trails because it fit. We called it Flipper in honor of its, uhh, issues, at the time.

I’m a Pats fan too-but they are the anomaly-even among the good teams in the NFL. Few NFL management teams have the intellect of Bellichick and his minions.

Looks like an FJ Cruiser as imagined in the Bladerunner movie.

European teams don’t give young players lots of minutes-they are trying to win in their own leagues-not trying to develop young players to jump to the NBA.

I could give two shits about the coaches and reps doing all the bribing. But as usual, the players are the ones getting screwed. That’s two top recruits who will probably not be allowed to play in college and might get lost in Europe and never make it to the NBA. How many more are going to be going down the same path?

Sold VeeDubs for a living in that time period. The first MK4 Jetta’s in the US were available with the 2 point slow or the VR-6.

Yup. Sold VeeDubs for a living in that time period. The first MK4 Jetta’s in the US were available with the 2 point slow or the VR-6. The 1.8T became available in 2000-along with the Turbo New Beetle. Wikipedia supports my memory-I checked. I could be wrong, but the turbo’s might have been a model year 99.5-available…

It was the “rich white guy fails upward” that prompted my reply. This is exactly what Deadspin traffics in. And self made Jewish billionaires have only recently become part of the “rich white guy” club-and even then-not at all everywhere.

The 1.8T had not come to the Jetta/Beetle/Golf when this care came out. It was in the Passat and A4 only at this time.

So the 1.8T was not available in the New Beetle at introduction. Not sure the year it became available-maybe 2000 or 2001.

So I read about Loria’s back story a bit yesterday. Like most sports owners he’s a taxpayer leech. But his back story is interesting. It appears he’s self made-at least as far as I can determine from Wikipedia.

My bad-thought he owned them from the beginning.

So apparently no one ever goes down on Adriana Cohen. Too bad for her.

Such a negative spin on this. Loria ran a team and left with more money than he started. You just sound jealous writing about it. Yes, he was a crappy owner. Most are. Yes, he bilked Florida taxpayers out of a ridiculous amount of money. Every owner does that, or at least tries to. He’s hardly unique. He also owned…

I believe the Jones Act dramatically negatively affects all US Islands-Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and probably places like Guam too-and it doesn’t just hurt them in times of crisis.

Agree 100%. This same reasoning applies to many many things across the US, and I’m sure elsewhere too.

This whole thing is fucked. And it’s entirely because the NCAA doesn’t let anyone pay “student athlete’s”. But here we are. The real tragedy is not the coaches being fired, the programs being cut out of postseason play, or any of the money men going to jail.