Except that almost invariably, I’ve found the trunk volume on a sedan is just as big (or very often - bigger) than the usable cargo volume in a SUV/CUV based off the same chassis. The SUV/CUV only comes out a winner for cargo when you take out passengers and fold seats down.

I made this the other night. Came out nicely. Nothing mind-shattering, but a nice sauce.

I took it down just short of soft-ball temp - I’d wager if you took it to hard crack, you could get some nice naturally-flavored hard candy...

There’s no one channel for all makes - but for Fords, I’ve found FordTechMakuloco to be a pretty darned good source.

And that silent scream is always followed 10 seconds or so later by an ear-piercing wail once they actually catch their breath...

That’s nothing. You should have seen Cincinnati yesterday. Pockets of heavy rain clouds that simply weren’t moving - if you were under them, you were getting up to 2-3 inches per hour for several hours straight. I got about a tenth of an inch by me - a mile to the south they got about an inch. Another mile south and…

VERY true. That’s why I would propose raising the tax not just to create a pigouvian tax to discourage purchase of inefficient vehicles, but also to raise money to finally fix the roads.

You clearly haven’t driven a Trax. Not worth anywhere near $3700 over 3 years. The Trax is a truly miserable vehicle.

This was actually a 2 year lease they’re referring to at that dealer, and the lease terms weren’t fully disclosed in the ad - from my experience with Chevy dealers around here, when they advertise a…

All the more reason why we should raise gas taxes by a large amount, then use the money to

1) Actually repair our roads (not expand - we shouldn’t do that until we can maintain what we already have, and generally expansion is heavily focused in urban areas where smarter, more economical solutions other than just…

5th:

The Trax isn’t worth $77 per month with $999 down.

What a piece of junk.

Evidently NASA’s requirements are solely based on their willingess to pay for suits that fit taller/shorter astronauts. The craft themselves could easily handle the extra size (gone are the days of the microscopic mercury/gemini/apollo capsules)...

I was once someone that had a good scientific education, and was young and fit....

But NASA also has height requirements, and I’m too tall - you have to be between 5'2" and 6'3".

Back in the day, TWA used to automatically book me in an exit row everytime I flew them - being 6'6" made a tight fit anywhere else. The fact that they did this for me made me a loyal customer.

And that was when they had far more legroom than other major airlines just as a standard thing.

dataPOG is right - they cut to 31 inches recently. They claim that their new seats actually give more legroom at 31 inches than the old ones did at 32 - but I have doubts on that.

The seats aren’t getting narrower -

Except that the extra charge for premium seating isn’t in line with their extra cost - For example, my last flight it would have meant a 20% increase in cost for the roundtrip, yet they didn’t remove 17% of the seats in that section (the % needed to balance out the cost).

Not only that, but most of the time, I’m flying…

This would be true if they were actually making them narrower. Have you suddenly noticed an increase of room in the aisle? I don’t think so.

Seat widths simply aren’t changing.

The untold parts of this story -

First, you have to be qualified to fly the particular models of planes, which means, for example, to get that $302,000 at Sichuan Airlines, you have to be rated for an Airbus A330 with enough hours to qualify as a captain, not just a first officer. Generally that means that you’re well…

So where did the supply of spare parts for old American cars in Cuba come from? They’ve had NO support for decades and managed to keep those cars running.

Look at Cuba and then tell me that Nicaraguans can’t keep this thing running.

True, electric cars aren’t perfectly clean - but much of the hype about the environmental impact of their manufacturing process is built upon very old practices - like the Sudbury nickel mine which is MUCH cleaner today than it was in the past - but the anti-EV crowd points at their past as evidence as what it is like…