What skill? US drivers are barely trained to drive. We’re a nation of amateurs and always have been. Now though it’s amateurs distracted by touch screens and phones. I can’t even select a radio station anymore without having to look at the touch screen and scroll to my station.

I pay my taxes every year. 33% of my income goes to federal and state taxes. I’d be fine with more bike trails. In fact, there are two different long bike trails around me. Both go into DC along different paths. I don’t see many bikers on them. Instead they seem to enjoy driving on the roads with cars.

Just because you have the right to ride you bike among 4000lb SUV’s, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. When I’m driving on the road in my 4000 lb SUV and I get into an accident with someone who drifted into my lane around a corner, I have airbags and crumple zones to protect me. A biker has no protection.

Average bike is what, 20-25 lbs? With a 180 lb American on board?

If you were going to have an accident, would you rather be driving your 3500lb Accord with airbags and crumple zone or would you rather be riding your bike? Yes, it’s dangerous to drive but, it’s far more dangerous if you riding a bike and get into an accident then driving a car and getting into one.

Stop victim blaming someone who was killed by a negligent driver. Jesus christ.

This is kind of the inevitable outcome of 4000-5000lb vehicles and 200 lb bicycles sharing the same space. No laws can solve this because no laws will prevent someone from looking down at the GPS on their phone or changing the radio station or any of the many things we do which momentarily removes our attention from…

I think you’ve forgotten how shitty US made cars were back then. They make a decent product now but only because the Japanese nearly killed them off. Fuel economy is certainly one factor but, American cars from the ‘70's were absolute garbage. I still remember pissing my grand parents off by pointing out how the screws…

By ‘75 they were building pretty decent water cooled cars. I’d argue what you’re seeing here is the value of persistence. Honda declared they were going to sell cars and they kept trying till they got it right.   

As much of a Honda fan as I am, I had a ‘76 Civic, It’s hard to recommend something like this at any price. Unless you already have parts cars to pull parts from I guess. I imagine the brakes don’t work because they’re missing some critical rusted out part and an enterprising person needs to actually fab up the…

Seriously, dude doesn’t inspect the first car and blames them when he finds damage, and Carvana goes above and beyond and agrees to fix/replace (for all they knew he could have damaged it himself after he bought it).

I’m thinking Tundra power.  Find a wrecked tundra and swap the drivetrain. 

It’s not a solution. It’s a prediction of what the future holds when the people we pay to protect us, stop doing their jobs. I agree we already have blood baths/school shootings and nothing is ever done to prevent them from happening again.

Probably cheaper to just buy another clapped out Mustang. 

I couldn’t agree more. When the protectors stop protecting, you have to do it yourself. This is just another step in our inevitable decline into the 3rd world.

This led to a pretty big argument with me claiming anybody who thinks a firearm is an appropriate tool to solve a dispute over personal property ownership probably shouldn’t own one.

Friend of mine tracked a Civic we swapped a B18B into. With a GSR transmission, it was a credible track car.  The stock transmission in the LS, the gearing isn’t great and it doesn’t have an LSD. 

If a belt and plugs ever 120K is an issue for you in a car.... I just have no words.

$15-20K... There’s quite a few conversions on YT. The credible ones are all pretty expensive. 

There’s nothing cheap about EV conversions.  Typically they cost 1-2 times what the converted vehicle is even worth. You still end up with a short range EV because you need 1500 lbs of battery to get a decent range.