It’s... fine, I guess. I really can’t get excited about another compact CUV in a market already teeming with compact CUVs. The pricing seems reasonable.

This sent me down a weird rabbit-hole. I had never thought much about the cost per pound of US coins. Dimes and Quarters are $20/lb.

*Series III XKE has entered the chat*

759 horsepower is 770 pferdestärke (“metric horsepower”)

I felt that if I found an image before nominating the Sprite, someone would beat me to it, so I decided to post right away and add an image within the edit window.

Bugeye Sprite

Buyers also couldn’t choose between a choice of body styles and engines as the Astra only came in one configuration: a three-door hatch with the 1.8-liter engine.

Aren’t NFTs a “new money” kind of thing? How gauche.

Nothing can stop a sufficiently motivated criminal. We just want to the threshold of “sufficiently” to be as high as practical.

The trigger is a potentiometer, not a switch!

This would be more absurd over any other 3 year span. I think I’ve put fewer miles than that on my GTO in the same 3 years.

...it had GM’s typical interior plastics of the era...

Y... did I click on this? Goofy names aren’t going to limit any opportunities for Musk and Grimes’ crotch goblins.  I guess it gives us an opportunity to point and laugh at the rich folks being affectedly weird, but at some point, it’s just exhausting.

That video would have been better without the play-by-play. He should’ve just let his riding do the talking.

You are absolutely right that replacing the trans is the more cost-effective option. The issue is that I don’t think her budget is money she has, but money she can afford to pay back. It is much easier to get a loan on a new/used car than on a transmission. A loan to pay for a transmission replacement is unsecured.

Are you saying that with 24% of all current cars on the road already being CUVs, we need another one?

♫Another CUV that we don’t need...♫

Dude, what the fuck? There wasn’t any implication that this was okay because this was his personal vehicle. He was just pointing out that a breathalyzer ignition interlock on cop cars wouldn’t have prevented this., because it was his personal vehicle.

When new, the ZR-1 was about twice the price of a base Corvette. Over the years, as the C4 has depreciated, the ZR-1 held that ratio. While you can get a rough C4 for the change in your couch cushions, there are no rough ZR-1s. Could a base C4 in comparable condition with comparable mileage fetch $15k?