went and looked...they have one more cycling day scheduled this year, on December 7th.

I’d have to look if they still do it, but Laguna Seca used to have monthly bicycle nights where you could cycle the track.

so i shouldn’t have that cup of roofing nails duct taped to the steering wheel? jeez, no fun left in the world.

what if....they WERE actually working on something new, and a lot of this Cybertruck stuff makes a GREAT distraction?

i’m curious others’ views on this, but i’m not seeing why not. assuming it’s parked solidly on the curb and not just half an inch of tread up on the curb, it’d be pretty hard for it to shift short of an earthquake, but you’d be equally screwed in an earthquake with stands, too.

So...we’re a hair cheaper, but same ballpark. Stopped at the shell around the corner from my hotel last weekend, and it was $5.89 for regular.

“I reject your reality, and substitute my own”

and yet...probably still cheaper than gas in CA.

the pre-bankruptcy days was when i actually used hertz, because they had a location conveniently close to me....i literally NEVER had them have the car ready on time. the final straw was waiting over an hour and a half past when i got there, and more than 2 hours past the reservation time only to be handed a car so…

and of course the gas station near the airport is 30 cents or more higher than everything else around, for that exact reason.

you know, anytime i see something talking about “common sense regulations”, my skepticism kicks in. a quick glance at this “trucking safety coalition” paints a picture of a fair bit of anti truck bias, being geared towards “help us present the horror stories trucks cause”.

the beauty of knobs and buttons is you LEARN them, and then you don’t need to look to change them.

if only she’d spared a second for a seatbelt...

“but that’s where the GPS said to go!”

and yet...i was looking at yukons (and tahoes) in person recently...$3k-$8k “market adjustments” on both, depending on trims, in some cases not mentioned on the dealer’s website (so it can be a surprise when you get there?). sales droid at GMC mentioned management is holding firm on those markups too...

i was poking at ford’s inventory online. can’t find a 4x4 f150 within a couple hundred miles of me with a msrp under $60k, and that’s before you even get into dealer markups.

and yet both the Chevy and GMC dealers where i am are still tacking “market adjustments” onto all of their full size SUVs

I was also thinking mazda, but CX-5. this one is also turbo, with AWD

“half filled gas tank”? my last hertz experience (i’ve refused to use them since) they handed me a car that wasn’t ready till an hour and a half past my reservation time and had so little gas left the fuel light was on. i guess they couldn’t manage to get it to any of the 4 gas stations within a city block radius to…