Those pizza and hot dogs are damned good, though.

I make a point to bring a bottle back with me any time I go to Chicago. Malört is of limited utility, usually only for giving to as yet uninitiated friends to see the looks on their faces. To give you an idea, the last time I went to a liquor store there and asked for it, the nice man asked — without any pause, as if…

That depends on the car. On some, it’s a noisy, jarring affair that makes taking off after a stop awkward. On others, you hardly even notice it. The implementations seem to be getting better as time goes on and they system becomes part of the overall considerations they have when designing the powertrain systems, but…

If it illuminates the CEL, it’ll fail NYS emissions inspection. Given that the limit is pretty high it’s unlikely that anybody will hit it, but I think it’s stupid to fail your emissions inspection because the car thinks your starter — which might still be working fine — has been actuated “too many times.” Especially…

I wonder how many municipalities will object when they realize that not being able to collect fines for speeding tickets will annihilate their budgets should this come to pass.

My observations during the ten years I spent working on and off at gas stations through middle school, high school, and college was that if it was going slow, it was either because of really high demand (you can only move so much fuel at once to ten or twelve dispensers) or because it was nearing filter change day.…

Hard to imagine an Escort being “more.” I remember mine fondly as it was my very first car, but if I think back on it dispassionately, it was a pretty big heap of shit.

It’s definitely different, though admittedly not a ton. I seem to recall the front doors being longer and the rear doors being shorter than on a 3-er sedan. I also remember somebody (probably dad) telling me that the 4 and the 3 only share one panel; the hood or something. I definitely remember it being more rakish. I…

…ya don’t like it?

74hp? Wow. My Mercury Tracer (Escort with different badges) had more. 20% more!

My dad had a 428i Gran Coupe. It’s true that the name is dumb, but it got you the coupe looks and sedan ease of in- and egress. Plus, it was a liftback!

I don’t have a problem with Stellantis doing this. If what I read about these trucks is true, they’re kind of dumpy and their reliability is kind of trash, but those things are usually characteristic of the cheap-and-cheerful model. That’s fine. Given that the tooling and lines are all likely long paid for and…

It’s interesting that there’s as many stories about the MA State Police as there are. My only truly incomprehensible interaction was with a pair of MA State Police, who decided to change lanes from the left lane into the right lane while I was in that lane next to them, pushing me off the road onto the shoulder, and…

How well’s your catalyst working now? “Not,” is my guess.

They’re only repeating a bit for you? Man, I’ve visited the same H3 refinery or the same abandoned weapons facility on different planets half a dozen times, for instance.

If you ever get to be on one. It seems like no matter where I fly, I get stuck on an old, janky 737 or A310 next to a large guy with gas, an aversion to deodorant, and the flu.

Wasn’t there a period where it was awesome if you had 50% residual value the second you pulled out of the dealer lot?

Wow. You didn’t even get to break it in.

We’ll see if “people,” as in “more than just Tesla-stans,” actually buy the things. I’m not holding my breath.

Wow. More than half again what they said it would cost. That combined with the battery taking up the already tiny bed makes me wonder what’s the point. You’d want the bigger battery so you can actually go more than a few miles with stuff in it. Especially if it follows the pattern of the Lightning, which could go less…