You are trying to break me.

Well now, who is to say these (white, racist) people *want* to ‘rebuild people’?

It does.

For people replacing parts for function and not out of an obsession with ‘period / vehicle correct’ harware, how difficult is it to replace a wiper motor with something new? Are the manufacturers so different for relatively ‘commodity’ items like those that there is no ‘generic’ alternative that will work just fine?…

As I understand it, yes, but you can use other parts as well. I saw one self-repair that swapped touch-disks (haptic sensors???) for joy cons sticks - you lose the ability to use the sensors to scan Amiibos, but if you dont care about those, might be an interesting swap.

You can buy replacement joystick kits for less if you are ok trying to fix them yourself. I will be giving it a shot in the near future. Smash Bros and BOTW suck when playing with drift.

Just outside my normal NP range (<$5k) but for a generally reliable, zippy German car with leather interior Ill take it, if only to prove to myself that I am not voting just on price.

I have two GameCube controllers that still work flawlessly ten plus years and two toddlers later.

No, it does not - the author is highlighting how he got where he is *now* from the cesspit he came from, and dragging along an audience that loved the cesspit and wanted / expected more of the same. She then points out they did not get more of the same, but we saw Kimmel change.

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I wonder if modern manufacturing like VW uses in their Wolfsburg facility might lower the cost of ‘a la carte’ options. Expensive then, but a lot has happened since. Not sure how widespread throughout the industry though.

That was the point at which I was willing to let his ‘Man Show’ crap go - because Im a man, andI remember the Man Show and thinking, ‘these two assholes are either genuine assholes or just want to make money for appearing to be assholes, so gtfo...’

They meant ‘The Office’ but Jez doesnt edit.

Assuming you are correct in terms of pricing, I concede the point. Looking at the pics of cars with all kinds of detail, it appeared to me that all else equal, those would take more time and effort and therefore be more expensive. If that is not the case, then my argument is wrong.

And kill many of them, plus lots of others who happened to be near them when they crashed. 

And if you dont, you go broke and still cant make the damn car! 

If you love wild stuff that much, buy something off the assembly line and have it painted. Its not hard, and given you dont seem too concerned about price, it would work.

“Oh, you dont like FUN COLORS? Pay up motherfucker...”

I think people just have different priorities. Any of the pictures you showed would add several thousand to the cost of a car, even the ‘came from the factory like this’ models.

I never thought the VW Harlequin existed, even when I stood next to one, in Germany, and listened to my host explain it to me. He had no sense of humor, and explained it rather like John Cleese explained sex in ‘The Meaning of Life’.