It also fails to explain why the smear on the lens also appeared on radar and a suite of other sensors on multiple Navy craft. 

I’m not gonna say aliens, because I totally agree with your point there - space is so big in both distance and the time required to navigate it, and the chance of existing at the same time and place as another civilization or at least in the right place to observe the light/EMF coming from it is zero.

Yep, this is like assessing the practicality of buying a yacht. The people with the money to buy a $670,000 sports car probably have the money (and own) like 1-2 dozen of them. It’s like buying an 80 inch TV for the rest of us - you would have been just fine getting the 60 inch TV for half the cost and spending the…

Yep, this is like assessing the practicality of buying a yacht. The people with the money to buy a $670,000 sports car probably have the money (and own) like 1-2 dozen of them. It’s like buying an 80 inch TV for the rest of us - you would have been just fine getting the 60 inch TV for half the cost and spending the…

Yes, power to weight ratio is the metric we need to use. I have 278 HP/350 lb-ft of torque in a 3350 AWD car. The output would not be fast at all in a car weighing 1.5 to 2 times as much, but it’s just about perfect for my pocket rocket Audi. 

Same. I have 278 HP/350 lb-ft right now in a 3350lb Audi A3 quattro. It’s already so quick (peak torque starts at 1,600ish RPM) I have to be careful about how hard I press the accelerator in 25 MPH zones. It’s so easy to hit 40-45 MPH after a stop you don’t even realize you did it. On the highway, you can accelerate…

Some guy got killed around here a year or two ago when state police were chasing someone for speeding (who cares?), and that spooked driver (who is a criminal, yes, and should have just pulled over immediately earlier) ran a light and t-boned another car. 

Awwwww the snowfwake’s butt got hurt

Yeah, this was still the bad times for VW/Audi. The current A3 doesn’t have any widespread issues at all, other than a small minority of them from the 2015 and 2016 with Haldex AWD pump/clutch system failures. It’s basically a Golf otherwise and shares its parts with a wide slog of other VW and Audi products, so most…

I drove a stick for the first 16 years I was licensed, before getting the current A3 2.0t with a DSG transmission. As far as a daily driver in a city goes, I do not miss the stick shift at all, to be honest. The only time I do is the rare handful of times per year I’m out in the mountains and can’t perfectly rev match…

This is what attracted me to the 8v as well - it’s clean, handsome, and gets the same design language as Audis that cost tens of thousands more, so everyone thinks you’re rich when in reality the car cost me $18k slightly used.

On this note - I bought a 2015/current gen A3 2.0t from Carmax last summer to replace my deer-killed 2008 Legacy GT (RIP).

Facebook marketplace is more of the same. My friend the other month was selling something he didn’t need anymore, for like $100, and this guy messages him asking if he’ll sell it for $40. He said no, and they eventually agreed upon like $80, and then this guy goes “Well I work during the night and sleep all day, so I…

You’re right generally speaking - dealers waste and try to waste people’s time every day - however in this particular and specific situation, if someone emails a dealer a ridiculous lowball on a vehicle, they are the one in that instance being a jabroni, not the dealer.

Bro it has that analog feel you just don’t get otherwise.

it’s why I didn’t particularly like my college (preppy, homogenous UVA)

That sunroof is hilariously small for the shape and size of the roof. It looks like a rectangular porthole. I wonder why Nissan didn’t at least give this a double-sized/panoramic sunroof if they were going to bother at all (answer, obviously, is $$$$). 

Southerner here - it’s unfortunately only been like one generation since it really became taboo down here. You’ll meet all kinds of people in their 50s and 60s now who grew up when everyone they knew just said it all the time, so a lot of them still say it. Then their kids pick it up.

Seriously, go anywhere in the boonies, any state, and you will hear the n word thrown around without care in the world. I’ll bet he and every single person he grew up with use it all the time.

I’m not outraged or really even bothered - I’m just dropping the quick take that “it’s just really stupid and reckless.”