Honestly 62k for a 55k mile Audi is generous.

In reality, when you factor in maintenance costs, the thieves are estimated to have lost about $200k.

You don’t think somebody at VW visits the Vortex forums?

I’d argue it was the feckless dipshits who reamed the hell out of their cars and then ran around telling everyone how clever they were that tipped VW off to it. Some of these chop jobs were bad enough and obvious enough that there’s no way a dealer was going to accept them in good faith.

when you can’t easily take an 8-hour road trip in these cars yet.

Wait...for decades of combustion-powered automobiles, 0-60 times were everything. It’s the primary stat the entire automotive publishing industry was built upon. But with battery-powered cars we’re now suddenly not supposed to care?

When will someone build the truck I want? A 4x4 chevy SSR with a Z06 engine and 44" tires?

Even fusion doesn’t create energy my good man.

I have the ability to do this after a few drinks.

Or an organ Donner.

Michigan simply dissolves your car with salt, so I doubt they would ever need chain laws.

Crossing the Donner pass one year I really hoped that my chains kept me on the road, my passenger was a chef

Ehh, colonialism is essentially what sent those places to hell to begin with. Wholesale exploitation, nonexistent human rights to the natives, hiring warlike tribes to terrorise the peaceful ones...you can’t exaggerate the brutality of the colonialist rule. You’ll find the first concentration camps in the world from…

First of all, the golf meme is getting old. I’m sure it probably came from whatever right wing propaganda you get your “news” from, but let me nip that thing in the butt: Obama took far, FAR fewer trips than GWB, Clinton, GHB, or Reagan. Its not that its a problem for a President to take a vacation: its a fucking…

Not really sure how you think doing good things makes him an abject failure?

Surrrrrrrre it was. That’s the sound of theach world’s fastest back pedal.

Wow, so it really was an experiment after all!

Democracy! Just how Jesus and the rest of the founding fathers intended.

We just need to slip it into one of those thousand-page "must pass" bills.