What, no mention of the Lotus 340R and it’s lack of doors?

The cringiest thing about Star Citizen is that, unlike every other game ever, it actually works worse over time. I played the hell out of it. Spent a pretty penny (less than $250), and got a good year or two of solid fun out of it - it had justified the price I paid. Then I had to reinstall Windows to test something…

Props to the guy for the stickers and pill from Kaneda’s jacket and bike. It’s the little details that make me smile.

Am I the only one that’s surprised this isn’t already happening?

I only did handling upgrades to that one. Rear sway bar, wheels and tires, stainless brake lines and upgraded pads and rotors. I know it was something in my car specifically (it’s not a common enough issue that there’s a TSB or anything about it), but my point is that there are enough of those edge case sort of…

Honestly, kinda all of them - at least as long as turbochargers are so damn expensive to replace. Some gremlin in my Mini’s turbo plumbing was somehow causing the repeated death of my turbo. I gave up trying to hunt it after 3 turbos, when even Detroit Tuned couldn’t find the cause conclusively. Each time I had the…

Stellantis sees the prices Land Rover charges for their vehicles and says, “we sell 4x4 SUVs too! Why not us?!”

Not for nothing but uh...Wouldn’t it have been way more efficient in every conceivable way to have had this ship load up on the east coast? Would carrying the wheat by train to an ocean port be that much worse than a freighter navigating the entirety of the St Lawrence, three major rivers (Detroit, St. Clair, and St.…

Because the dopamine people get from games like OW and League of Legends, where the game and/or the community is so frustrating that they never say something good about it feels better than dopamine received while playing something truly enjoyable. They feel like they worked harder for it, earned it.

It’s not so much that they know more about ICE cars than EVs, it’s that with ICE cars the typical salesperson BS has been distilled for decades. They’re still learning what they can lie about, and how, with EVs.

Rochester Road gets pretty twisty, up near Lakeville. That may well be the curviest road in the Detroit area. Still, it’s all of about a mile long, at that part...

The drive from San Bernadino to Big Bear Lake, in California. Doesn’t matter whether you take 330 to 18, or just take 18 all the way up. Both drives are gorgeous mountain climbs (or descents, on the way back) with more twists, turns, and beautiful views than makes any sense. When I lived in Riverside, most of the time…

COMPLETELY off-topic, but thank you for spiking my memory of Beeman’s gum (hadn’t thought of it since probably the 90s), and tossing me down a rabbit hole of, “Wait...I know the packaging was similar, but did Beeman’s make Clove gum?”

Not that I disagree on the incentives being obnoxious to deal with, but please...do tell us about the simple, comprehensive programs suggested by the GOP...

Most of the CBD is retail, unless you go to Greektown, or the area between there and Woodward, north of Campus Martius. What do you expect late in the evening? If you saw it during the day, you’d see a bustling downtown commercial district.

Ah, my bad. I thought you meant the study done on I-375. I’ve got no experience with anything on El Camino Royal like that. We work exclusively with Detroit’s data.

So you only went the places that couldn’t be developed further, beyond new tenants in the storefronts. Got it. I can see why you’d think that about it not changing in the last decade. The CBD finished its redevelopment around 2011. If you ever drum up the nerve, see what Cass Corridor and Corktown look like these…

LA would have that demand even if the freeways leading in weren’t 5 lanes wide in each direction. San Diego is less affected because the population of the metro area there is 1/4 what LA has, but we saw LA rush hour traffic all the way out in Riverside.

I wasn’t directly involved in the study, but my company works with the resulting data set. I’m also someone who works downtown, and hangs out there enough to have seen the traffic patterns with my own eyes.

How long ago has it been since you truly spent time downtown?