more like Heartbeeps mixed with Robot Jocks

it’s like they took all the cynicism and hubris that VAG used to give us the A3 and smashed it down to fit in a USPS flat rate box.

I was once driving home on Route 287 in NJ. It was getting dark, cold, and absolutely pouring when I passed a car on the side of the road. It didn’t register until I passed him, but the owner was sitting on the curb. In the rain. No coat or umbrella. And there were two wheels on the ground with the bumper in the…

For what it’s worth, I used to have a big mutt. he was a undecipherable mix, but he was built like a Golden Retriever with the muscle of a Rottie and the colors to match. Closest breed comparison would be a Hovawart and maybe a bit bigger in scale at around 110 lbs . Around his 4th year, he developed acute…

A wings don’t suck. They are the Hyabusa of the Star Wars universe. deadly fast and not for pansies. I will argue that the X-Wing is NOT the finest fighter in canon. That honor would go to the Clone Wars era Y wing with gunner’s seat, astromech socket, and those magnificent art-deco fairings behind the nacelles the…

the 2017 crew cab long bed Colorado is 225" long, 77" wide, and 72" tall, by via Google.

it’s not sarcasm. I’m serious

there is a brand-new 2017 Colorado crew cab parked next to my POS 2001 F250 4x4 Super duty Standard Cab. They are disturbingly close in size.

no, I’m right. look it up. gas is pretty much the only thing you buy that’s not percentage taxed. It’s $0.184/gallon and has been since 1993. And it’s not like people have been using way more gas than they have been before. between higher fuel efficiency standards and people just driving less in general, the revenues…

you missed the post where the po-po get pictures of HOV users in-car real-time. They can just pull you over and check.

They don’t have to catch them all. The fine for the violation covers (some of) the leakage, and the po-po party lights other drivers see on the side of the road discourages violations.

federal tax rate on gas hasn’t been upped in TWENTY FOUR YEARS. money has to come from somewhere. Roads are like the cars that use them: There’s a cost to get a new one, and a cost to operate one, and they’re not that different than you think.

Audi will paint their cars any custom colors you want for $3,900, so that’s a data point for you. There used to be a time when Ford would paint any car any color currently offered on any other Ford product for about $500, but that was a long time ago.

I always like the moderate 4x4 culture, which I guess is more of a clique than a full-blown culture, but somewhere between the trust fund baby mall crawlers (are malls still a thing?) and the full-blown trailer queen trail rigs, there’s a segment of off roaders that built-not-bough their rigs from hacked together bits…

I am unaware of any Burger Kings that have substantially changed in the past 20 years.

You said it best, a burger is the sum product of its parts in balance. It is not just a slab of meat nestled between two buns; that’s a porn movie, not a sandwich.

So would you say these things guzzle gas ‘liberally’?

If I had a wooden nickel for every poor sucker that buys into the #vanlife and ended up in a similar situation, I could build a log cabin.

are we caring about this?

Toyota keeps trying to peddle the hydrogen fuel cells. it’s never going to happen. They need to pull an Elsa and let that one go.