I’ll take Banglebutt all day long over the current ‘face’. 

My neighbor runs a local used lot, he picked up a Porsche Panamera Turbo from auction. Supposedly it was a theft recovery, found in a sea crate waiting to be loaded onto a freighter. He paid peanuts for it and has been repairing it slowly. The best part is that he let’s me take the cool cars for drives and it drives…

When I still had my motorcycle that would have been in contention. I much prefer secondary highways over interstates when I can. Takes longer but usually worth it for the view. 

“As long as you’re not driving through Kansas or Nebraska” Thanks, I’m going to Colorado tomorrow and will be going through one of these two states depending on the weather. I’m not sure which I’m dreading more. 

What I don’t get is that the perfect apocalyptic vehicle is readily available but never depicted in any show, the bicycle. Usually they have some artificial time constraint so a car is always used but bikes are going to just work. Sure after 20 years you’ll have some tire issues but I’ve seen some really old tires…

I’m quite sure that the use of “wussy” has pre-dated anything that this article refers to. I know I was using it in my early teens, at least 30 years ago. Yes it was known it was a combination of ‘wimp’ and ‘pussy’ even back then.

It’s as bad as the stupid ‘colorway’ jargon that gets used.

It stood for 20 years, obviously it was build pretty well. If indeed it failed from some construction failure or poor tolerance a 20 year to fail seems pretty good. This smells of outside damage. 

I’ll go ahead and agree on the JK. It has it’s quirks for sure. We sold our ‘13 last summer to get a pickup to haul my wife’s horses and the one thing I won’t complain about at all is resale value. Now it’s someone else’s problem ;)

I remember when these came out and we went and looked at one on a snowy winter night. My dad thought it would be perfect and my mom shot that idea right down. She never did drive a minivan but did have some awesome wagons before she switched to SUVs. 

I’d say back in high school when my buddies Firebird didn’t have heat because the heater core was plugged, we re-routed the heater lines to the A/C compressor. Boy did he have heat after that! That was a fun mod. 

Funny enough I just so happen to have bought an ‘06 F250 to haul my wife’s horses. I’m in Iowa and they recently changed the license/tax structure when you register a truck. It used to be that basically *all* pickups over (I’m assuming) a specific weight cost $50/yr to register. Now for all newer trucks it’s based on…

Both my parents, at my recommendation, bought Ford Flexes and loved them. They were also able to sell both after driving them for a couple years each for even money or slight profit. There is definitely a Flex cult and people will pay for them. 

Screw Elon. All I know is the company I work for won the contract to build the HSR. If that means we took money away from Elon and his pipe dreams, oh well. 

The reality is that in a post apocalyptic world like this bicycles would play a much larger role yet they haven’t shown them basically at all. Ammo I could see still being pretty common, I’ve read numbers that just one of the Gov’t owned ammo plants can crank out ~1.5Billion rounds a year! So if you could find the…

I mean there is that huge covered wagon over the interstate ;)

An extra 5mph actually doesn’t make that much difference. I’ve done the math and you gain minutes but loose in the extra cost of gas. You have to increase speed quite a bit before it pays off in time but doing 25+ over is usually frowned upon. 

Nebraska. Everyone that says Iowa is wrong and that’s not because I live in Iowa. Trust me Iowa is boring to drive across but at least we have hills and curves, windmills that either help push you along the road or give you cancer depending on your affiliation and, yes, an occasional hog farm to smell, though the big…

Memory seat for at least the drivers seat. Going from a almost totally loaded used Lexus ES330 to a new Kia K5 GT-Line (AWD was more important) I miss the memory seats the most. The Kia is our most efficient car so my wife drives it more now (more than double her Jeeps MPG) and she’s almost a foot shorter than I am.…

My first real, daily drivable, MC was a Yamaha XS850 Special. Good to see that they have a new triple available. Sounds like a fun ride.