In recent years Germany seemed to have one of the better economies in the EU. I don’t know what will happen if they start to fall apart.

Maybe it’ll return home and hit Russia. It’s a pretty big target.

Maybe they looked at the past and realized that for many years lots of Americans who bought manual transmissions were doing it only because it was a few dollars cheaper.

Obviously if you can’t see out the back window you put the top down and then you can see just fine. Most ragtops don’t exactly have good visibility out the back regardless of window type. Or you could demand that the government require a rear camera system. Ohwait...

I want to see somebody do this in a Barbie Jeep. It could go along with the downhill races.

At the West Lake Landfill superfund site a company that was storing Manhattan project waste mixed low-level radioactive waste with topsoil to dilute it and just dumped in the landfill. That was only about 45 years ago.

They really should have allowed the beer mug emoji on license plates.

I would make the line between BIG and F’ING HUGE 10L. 10 is a nice number for humans, and it puts things like 1T pickups and most supercars down in the BIG range so you can reserve F’ING HUGE for semis and other really big road vehicles.

I had a Power Wheels 3-wheeler as a child. It used some kind of gel battery. It did not have many fancy options. I think just a couple of sound-effect switches and buttons.

Just duct tape it. I’m sure it’ll be fine. Maybe wrap a little baling wire here and there.

Diesel enthusiasts call their cars “oil burners” and refer to gasoline vehicles as “gassers”. I suppose it’s also an enthusiast/context thing for people to say “LSD” instead of “limited slip differential”, which can give somebody the wrong idea about exactly what hobby is being discussed.

I don’t know how obscure it really is, but in one specific area I used to hear people say “going title for title” for drivers betting their cars on a drag race, and everywhere else I’ve heard some variant of “racing for pinks” instead.

I suppose you could argue that smoking helps winnow the human population. Nicotine definitely helps winnow people’s bank accounts, at least in the US.

Shouldn’t there be a third M button? M0, to switch you out of M mode and tune you down to the same power as the regular X3/X4.

I know St Louis. Thinking about the image of the car is the smart move.

A BMW Z4 pulling out of Menard’s with a load of lumber sticking up out of the passenger seat.

Not so much horrible as depressing: I was on the el in Chicago years ago when a man holding a brown paper bag that appeared to contain a bottle got on the train. When he stepped in the entire car instantly reeked of alcohol. He sat there, all alone, laughing. Just kept laughing, not saying anything. This was still…

What, no Baja?

I think this glosses over an important point: the car they tried to steal was a 1995 Honda Civic. 24 years old, and a Civic. If you’re going to risk jail time, at least go for something cool enough to make it worthwhile.

When are they going to make the entire car transparent and fix the visibility problem once and for all?