As a multimedia designer who sits all day, my employer recently paid for an ergonomic evaluation, which got me a fancy articulating chair, gel mat, and a powered standing desk. I tend to stand all morning, but then eat lunch and sit in the PM. I enjoy it, but can’t say for sure if my health has improved in the 1.5…

Political complexities? because a national uniformed driving standard should eliminate 50 slight variations.

It’s a little bit of both. Yes it’s expensive and much harder to get your license in Germany, but my wife lived there for years and I work for a large German company and there’s certainly a cultural difference too. On average we Americans are far more self-centered and Germans are thinking more of the greater good /…

Poor little guy - looks as if he’s about to get run down...

Oh I’ve seen that Prelude in person. I talked to the guy at a little employee car show thing in our company parking lot like 2 years ago. I have a (normal) 97 Prelude too and we got to talking. Kinda impractical, but lots of work went into that Frankenstein Honda.

I grew up near the CG base in Elizabeth City and my neighbor was a rescue pilot. The sound of C-130’s coming in for a landing is so ingrained in my head.

That was my Mom’s car! Tanks a lot...

Oh cool. Yes I’ve been to the Udvar-Hazy museum since I used to live in downtown DC and worked at the Kennedy Center. It’s been a while though...

Is that a hanger or museum? and why would an F-35 be in a museum already? (if that’s a museum)

Sure, but a land mass give you legal exclusion zone around it - if you consider these legal land masses...

Wait... isn’t this my Buick?!

Sure, anyone can multitask while cruising in gear and an experienced manual driver can still row the gears while holding a phone, but it adds a task that makes you pay attention to traffic more. I bet most new drivers would be forced to put the phone down if they had to shift in stop-n-go traffic.

Mandatory manual transmission

“places to hide your stash”

That list just isn’t a fair comparison. Sure, you might have a ton of trucks, SUVs, or Crown Vics that have hundreds of thousands of miles on the odometer, but how many of them have had rebuilt engines / transmissions? And your friend’s old Suburban doesn’t have anywhere near the same engineering requirements of a…

Exactly. It’s not really a level playing field in that respect. GMC makes sense because trucks and truck-base SUVs aren’t built to the same standards as cars. They have far less stringent CAFE mpg, emissions, and safety standards as passenger cars, so they can be “over-built” with beefier components and looser…

Two bad about Honda’s v6 transmission woes on 2 models, because my 1997 Prelude SH has been daily driven very hard for close to 20 years now with only fluids and scheduled parts replacements like timing belt, water pump, and brakes. Even the original alternator is still strong and the factory AC still blows cold. Yes,…

Kinda of agree, but GMC makes sense because they only make trucks and truck-base SUVs which aren’t built to the same standards as cars. They have far less stringent CAFE mpg, emissions, and safety standards as passenger cars, so they can be “over-built” with beefier components and looser tolerances to be cheaper, more…

GMC makes sense because trucks and truck-base SUVs aren’t built to the same standards as cars. They have far less stringent CAFE mpg, emissions, and safety standards as passenger cars, so they can be “over-built” with beefier components and looser tolerances to be cheaper, more reliable, at the expense of efficiency.…

GMC makes sense because trucks and truck-base SUVs aren’t built to the same standards as cars. They have far less stringent CAFE mpg, emissions, and safety standards as passenger cars, so they can be “over-built” with beefier components and looser tolerances to be cheaper, more reliable, at the expense of efficiency.…