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Thank you for this.

I always thought “poor man’s fiberglass” was just... well... Fiberglass.

You’ve posted this like 3 times.. can you cite a source here? Everything I’ve read says that driving privileges are unaffected. 

I don’t love the Alpha Tauri name, but this is easily my favorite of the 2020 liveries thus far. I love it.

Exactly what I was thinking. My wife packs twice as much as Andrew did just for a weekend in Palm Springs... never mind a 10 day African safari. 

My grandpa sprayed it on fishing lures too! He always had a small can of it in his tackle box. Duct tape was another one of his favorite "tools". 

Slightly related - when I was a kid, my grandparents owned a hardware store and small engine repair service back in Detroit... you know, back before there was a Home Depot on every other corner. Anyhow, my grandpa swore that there was nothing that couldn’t be fixed with some WD-40. He used that shit for pretty much

Show me on the doll where Chris Bangle touched you.

Not gonna lie - I didn’t hate the Bangle butt on the 7 Series... at least in the darker colors. Not saying that I liked it, I just didn't hate it. That gray color is not flattering though. 

We all owe Chris Bangle an apology. 

I have a Lexus, so maybe I’m a bit biased, but I happen to like the Predator grille in some applications. The LC is fucking gorgeous, and I think it’s the best application of the design language. I also think the IS, RC, and LS pull off the look nicely, but I prefer the F-Sport versions with the mesh pattern grille as

I wish I hated this more. I actually quite like that white one without the chrome. 

I have a friend who types everything in lower case, and doesn’t use any spaces at all after any kind punctuation. Granted, it’s not as bad as having everything in caps with no punctuation at all, but it’s still incredibly hard to read.

Christ I hate that. Way more annoying than double spacing. 

Most style guides disagree with you, as do I.

The kind of animal that doesn’t use a fixed-width font.

I’ve seen exactly one Khasmin in the flesh, and I remember thinking that the rear end looked kinda stupid... I honestly had no idea that the rest of the world got that lovely design with the tail lights in the glass. I learned something today.

It’s common enough that even with my fairly poor Italian language skills, I understood what it meant. It’s not a word that you normally hear in the course of daily conversation or anything, much like the English word "thoroughbred". As for copyrighting of a common word/phrase, I can’t really speak to that. Maybe

My Italian isn’t super awesome, but this is how I interpreted the name - Thoroughbred, not Pure Blood, although when translated literally as two separate words, it does mean “pure blood”.

The 8 speed auto is really the only complaint I have about the IS.. well, that, and the lack of Android Auto. I find myself using the flappy paddles quite a bit because the transmission seems to get confused about what gear it needs to be in. It behaves better in Sport mode, but it’s still not great. When I bought it,