Every article you’ve ever read saying the autobahn isn’t amazing is a lie. It really is as amazing an experience as you would imagine it to be. I couldn’t agree with your sentiment more, whether you ever drive it or not. 

As someone who is a car enthusiast and has driven on the autobahn I have to disagree with you. It may not be a “key societal issue” but what is? We all live and die and what makes the human experience worth it are the joys, as trivial as they may be, that we make for ourselves in the middle. Screaming along the…

I’m not saying it’s fair just why they do it and what normally they are looking for. Also it seems credit checks are becoming less and less common practice in employment from what I’ve seen, for what that’s worth.

So people confuse credit check with credit score. Most companies who run these checks don’t care about bad credit scores as much as they do debt and types of debt which is what the credit check shows. Typically even bad credit with things like unpaid medical bills will fly - stuff happens. What they’re looking for is…

I have an HOA and yes, I can see something like this coming from them. HOA’s have enjoyed a weird and privileged legal status and the boards are solely run by jerks with nothing better to do. Corporations are sued at the drop of a hat (say what you will but they are). There is a big difference between the old lady…

Really? I could see two people sending this as a joke. No one in a VP of HR function (unless it is a lemonade stand) would send an email like this. I’ve worked for companies from 30 employees to 50,000+ employees. This is fake. 

Sorry but saying the letter sounds like it was run past in house counsel is laughable. It is obviously fake. There is no way any legitimate company’s legal, HR, or otherwise risk management related area put together or advised on this email. Not even addressing the content it reads like a 5 year old put it together.

And you can drown in two inches of water. It doesn’t make it dangerous. I’ve gotten myself in trouble with a 15hp go kart because I was young and dumb. I just meant 300hp can easily be deployed with no traction control while having fun if you’re not being an idiot. Turning off the TC just means you need to know what…

Assuming it was a 2005 GT it still only had 300hp. I would have turned off traction control too. If you can’t keep 300hp pointed in the right direction I would have serious concerns about that person driving anything. In fairness though that generation was a particularly tail happy bunch. 

It does have an opening but it is very small and is directly under the drain plug. When you remove the plug, which faces to the side of the car, the oil comes out in an arc that goes beyond the opening, basically pouring out onto the top side of the tray and not through the hole. If that makes sense. It is a poor…

I could not agree more with everything here about changing your own oil (down to at least one beer). Also, having a car with an under spoiler/tray that needs to be removed to change the oil adds just one more thing I am terrified for them to touch. Thirteen bolts held on by individual metal clips. How many of those do…

I half agree with you. You don’t need to like cooking to be a foodie, but if you don’t like to cook you should be passionate about amazing food. It’s cool if your passion is driving a sports car. It’s cool if your passion is wrenching on an old brown station wagon but it has to be something. If you don’t cook and your…

So is it like a poke-mon (sp?) thing?

Just make anything with t-tops. They went out of style, but much like pop up headlights, just give me the fizz for reasons I can’t explain.

This was my thought exactly. Car was probably weaving in and out of traffic, cut off tractor trailer then tried to do the same to the dump truck and clipped it. Driver thought I’ll give this jerk a little ride and dump him on the shoulder. Explains the actions of the tractor trailer too, pulling over (aggressively)…

Is that BO?

They may cost less than what they compete with but it’s a hard spot to be in being an off brand premium brand. I could be selling a Swiss watch you’ve never heard of for $6,000. Sure it costs less than a Rolex it competes with but who’s going to buy it. To ‘earn’ your spot you have to give something the name brands…

Agreed. Every now and then Porsche has to make a less than 100% desirable car (like the 996 - which I’d happily have, also a fan of the 944) so it can be accessible to more folks in the second/third hand market. I just wouldn’t want to be someone who just bought one new holding a note right now.

You can also bet anyone who just bought the 4 cylinder is about to experience the worst depreciation curve (for a Porsche) this side of the 996.

In VA anything over 80 is automatically reckless driving no matter the speed limit, so keeping it under 80 is a good call here. Kind of ridiculous and driving at 80 feels like crawling speed in a modern car on an open highway. On the other hand I wouldn’t trust most drivers and the junky cars we let on the road to go…