God, I want the new GR86. It's the perfect sports car. Lucky bitch.

Yes. I know you buy cars, how do you not know the expectation of going to a dealership is to have the worst day of your year? Should it be? No. Is it? Yes. 

None available for test drives anywhere. It’s entirely possible I was the first sale in the area—1 day after it arrived—but as I wrote, I took a 20-minute test drive. If I didn’t like it, I would have gotten my deposit back and walked (or resold it for a profit), but it was better than I expected. Alternative was…

Instead, she said, dealerships now offer digital purchase options, help with financing and clean facilities during a pandemic — all of which have made the experience tolerable, even enjoyable.

I just bought a GR86. I built it online in November, the local dealer called the next day about getting me on the first allocation Dec. 1, they ordered what I wanted, told me 12-16 weeks, and it got here in 6. Including a 20-minute drive or so, the whole buying process was 1.5 hrs. No markups, just some minor…

Laughs in 90s Aurora. 

Nothing!

This car only has 23 miles on it.

What’s wrong with that interior?

Well,

For fucking real.

This is The Lord Our God warning you about touch screens and computer interfaces in mission critical appliances.  If you don’t pay attention, it’s on you.

wow, crazy. I have 60k miles on mine. 

You sound like you weren’t around when Paul Volcker (Fed chairman during the Carter administration) decided to end stagflation by adjusting the prime interest rate - instant recession and Carter gets replaced by Reagan. It shows how powerful the Fed is when they adjust the prime interest rate. A point of contention…

I’m all for dealerships charging whatever the market can bear.

Oh, I know the difference, and I know what I saw. This was the old-school incandescent bulb-type of projector with the big fold-up arm with the lens assembly and the fresnel lens base. The image she had was printed on a transparency. This was not some modern LCD projector. It was huge, and you could hear the fan…

Yes, but I’m covering its implications to the greater realm of taillight communications, which wasn’t properly addressed before. That’s the part that REALLY matters.

You guys covered this when it came out. It was also determined at that time that the margin of error on it was so large as to be completely useless.

I think there is something fascinating about taillights buried in this article but I can’t get past someone pulling an overhead projector out of their pants. Illustration needed.

I mean, this is clever as hell, no doubt.  But the best thing about this is the article itself.  God damn, Torch, you’re a madman