This is great, and absolutely a wonderful project with many useful benefits.

What’s most adorable about this video is how he keeps referring to the season as “winter” and the temperatures as “cold”. Southerners are so darned cute.

The number of sexual assaults on and by prisoners would certainly be one of the major problems. It’s a problem simultaneously so widespread and so commonly disregarded that it’s somehow become a joke in popular culture - much like the meme of the “dead stripper”, because the victims aren’t really considered “people”,…

Sadly, while there are prisons - and indeed entire state prison systems - where the mortality rate is genuinely absurd, they’re not “famous”, so we don’t hear about them as often as perhaps we should. There definitely are a wide variety of articles about these issues, but the attention paid in the broader world is…

It seems, mein Freund, that we’ve only one choice: install a five-link coil spring rear in some XJs. Just imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if we put a desert racing suspension into a car with 25 years of Michigan rust.

Right now this quality stuff is just amusing. In 30 years, it’s going to be literally hilarious.

Right now this quality stuff is just amusing. In 30 years, it’s going to be literally hilarious.

The thesis of the article is that there are many similarities between the two cases, and then one major difference. That thesis is correct. Faraday Future would actually be a substantially worse comparison in all but the one way (i.e. production), since those bullet points don’t tend to apply to Faraday Future.

I say all of this mainly in jest since Tesla and Twentieth Century could not be more different in that one was a giant failure and the other just a regular car company now. Elio Motors is probably a better comparison for Twentieth Century, at any rate. It’s almost as if a lot of this stuff is as old as time.

Dark matter is, at the moment, a bit like the cosmological constant: there are a bunch of cases where there’s a variable we can’t assign anything but a value to, so we give our ignorance a name, and keep looking for its cause. The problem is that once an entire generation has seen the placeholder as a thing itself,…

Stiffening the other side is a very good idea, but unless you’re going to wheel her hard between now and then, it can wait until it’s actually warm out.

Fear. My daily driver and only vehicle was build in 1995, has substantial unibody rust, compromised seat mounts, slightly more lift than necessary, and no doors. Any accident at speed means death or serious injury - much like riding a motorcycle. So while the improved awareness of superior visibility plays a factor in…

I’d bring back Pontiac, GM’s barely-concealed clone of BMW. If GM is going to continue doing the “one brand for each niche” method, then Pontiac should be the performance brand. Chevrolet is the baseline, Cadillac the luxury brand. Keep Olds or Buick if for some odd reason a “low-end luxury” brand is needed, but why…

If I might suggest a solution to the problem.

It’s definitely interesting to drive new cars and recalibrate your expectation of ride quality and safety and vibration. (To be fair, I drive a 1995 Jeep Cherokee with a bit of a lift and no doors. Everything recalibrates my expectations.)

Agreed! Definitely misread that - though my advice remains the same, in that he should continue driving older cars, rather than try to find some sort of new automobile without most new automobile features. (The newest car I’ve ever owned is my 1995; I can’t imagine trying to find another car like it made today!)

I’ve never in my life had a car that was less than 10 years old...

It gets rinsed off sometimes, is all.

354,000 on a mid-80s Pontiac Sunbird. 254,000 on an early-90s Pontiac Sunbird. Over 300,000 on a few different Jeep Cherokees. Over 200,000 on a BMW, a Cadillac, and a Ford van, all from the late 80s/early 90s.

I remember when Clarkson, Hammond, and May used to enjoy and encourage car culture.