So honestly, is this the decline of the modeling industry? Car shows, car races, and bike races are now talking about giving up the ‘girls’ that hang around and look pretty. That’s basically what all models are, people that look pretty and get paid for it, right? So we should start getting rid of all attractive people…

Same deal with every driver aide out there. Or every single car on the road. “User relies too heavily on adaptive cruise/lane-keep assist/cross-traffic alert/crash mitigation tech and doesn’t pay attention to driving, crashes”. My car has adaptive cruise, but I still pay attention and immediately turn it off when I…

Nice race baiting.

I’m kind of surprised Gilles doesn’t drive a Trackhawk or at least an SRT GC. But it’s probably safely in his garage while the Wrangler gets put on snow duty (shown in his pic of the incident).

Agree. All I ever did with mine is save a bunch of people the time, aggravation, and high fees of getting towed out of a snowbank or off the beach at OBX. And I gave one random stock wrangler owner the satisfaction of yanking out my built XJ that slid off the road into 3-4 feet of snow.

Sorta. Think about it: A car is riding on four wheels with tiny contact patches with the ground, but the wheels are on very low friction bearings. So if you aren’t putting power down, the momentum carries the car a long way and the bearing drag and friction on the rolling tires is minimal.

210? I drive the entirety of it from the beltway to Indian Head every day. Assholes tricking on bikes or doing 120+ any nice day out. I almost hit a bike once trying to go around slow traffic. Turns out traffic was slow because a guy in the slow lane was recording a guy doing a wheelie in the fast lane. Would have…

They could at least put a little effort into making the boat look like the car or use a few parts from the car a la Lamborghini. Mercedes just paints them the same color and calls it good.

Loooots of boats have breaks. But none have brakes.

Put it this way: if you were cruising at 100mph, which that boat could do easily, and quickly pulled back the throttles to idle, your face and everything not tied down (and probably some stuff that is tied down) would instantaneously smash into the windscreen.

If you are worried about pollution, bitch about getting old cars and trucks off the road that billow blue smoke all the time. My modern SUV doesn’t pollute anywhere close to that much.

Stupid and wasteful? What does that even mean in car context? SUVs are really convenient to own. I just recently bought a decent sized cabinet for the house on a whim, fit in the back of my Grand Cherokee with tons of room to spare. Trips to ikea after we bought the house, fit a whole living room worth of furniture in…

In my area, busa rider is usually an overweight black guy wearing jeans, bball shoes, and a tshirt with leather vest bearing his club patches.

I thought the typo was describing that crash as “huge”. Happy to see it was relatively minor and the title was just click bait.

I will say that driving up a rocky stream is a pretty fun challenge. I’ve been to offroad parks where streams were actually a marked trail.

Don’t have pics of the actual truck, but it looked just like this. I know the objective is to take the test in the smallest car possible, but I had been driving my dad’s 97 F150 super cab the most on my learner’s permit and was very familiar with it. It was between this and a 95 Explorer, and I picked the truck.

We’ve reached peak divisiveness now thatI get called a racist for not being outraged over a truck commercial. Congrats.

How much credit you got left on that race card?

Holy shit, seriously. I don’t own a Ram truck, I voted for fucking Hillary against my will because I didn’t want Trump to get elected, and don’t give a flying fuck about politics in commercials. I want my commercials to be funny and give me a reason to even consider buying the product. Telling me your multi-billion…

Didn’t go over well with the two liberal women at my house. The two guys (myself included) got the point of the ad and didn’t give a shit about the politics of it. I was just tired of the political, anti-racist, ‘we are one’ bullshit commercials by then.