I’m really looking forward to hearing re-recorded versions of the early albums. I have all of them up to 1989 on CD, and listened to them a lot during my teenage years. (The only reason I haven’t bought the later ones is because I’m lazy and I have Spotify Premium.) It’ll be interesting to compare when the re-recorded…

I actually really like the Mach-E design. It takes the dull crossover shape and makes it, if not as striking as a normal Mustang, at lease relatively pleasant to have in your line of sight. The non-grille is nice too - it looks futuristic while avoiding the Model 3 “face without a mouth” look.

I’m really impressed with what an utterly idiotic idea this was on BMW’s part. “Let’s design an ugly car and then bully people into liking it!”

Exactly. And as a straight white person, I refuse to do that. We need to stop pretending that our white friends’ racism/sexism/LGBTQphobia isn’t a big deal.

I should have known it would be too much to hope that BMW would actually make a good looking car.

I wonder if it’s legal to blow up a helicopter? Like, for fun?

Obligatory PeterSripol:

The only thing it got wrong was how far in the future it would happen.

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be proud.

These mail trucks were everywhere when I was growing up in California in the early 2000s - it literally never occurred to me as a kid that it was physically possible to deliver mail in any other vehicle. I don’t remember them being gradually phased out, or what they were replaced with, but I do remember waking up one…

Thanks so much! I’m glad you like it. Sadly, the flames are paper, and the first hint of rain is going to completely ruin them. I’ll leave them on the car another day or two, though.

So... I did it! I ended up dressing as Wayne instead of Garth because I couldn’t find a blonde wig in time (and I didn’t end up making a licorice dispenser), but I did the flames and I made Wayne’s hat. (I didn’t have a black baseball cap, so I covered it in black duct tape.)

There are some articles where I can tell it’s David Tracy just from the headline.

Is that you, Clarkson?

Call them “The Side of Clarkson’s BMW” and “The Hood of Hammond’s Subaru”.

Cool. So this is what the douchebags of the future will drive.

Goddamn I love that movie. It’s such a perfect piece of cinema on so many different levels.

Honestly, I’m over manuals. I’ve daily driven a manual, a slushbox and an EV, and I’d be OK with never dailying a manual again. The fun on the backroads just isn’t worth the leg pain in traffic. Modern automatics are really good, and EVs make the whole debate rather moot.

See him? That’s what he’s been doing for the past four years.