75 and sunny in Chicago is hands down the best city in the country. I live in Austin now, but god damn do I miss the first warm weekend in Chicago.

HA! The city is supposed to pay those back. You know, eventually. When they find the money.

The mailed tickets are the worst. I pulled into an intersection at a green light, had a truck roll through a red light and nearly hit me and the car coming the other way. We both sat in the intersection for a moment and watched the truck skid to a stop on the next block. Light turns red and we both get tickets (flash…

Not only a city sticker, but also street parking stickers. There are workarounds though. I left my car registered in Indiana, therefore I didn’t need a city sticker (they only require city stickers on resident cars) but I still had to get a parking sticker to park on my street (something like $200 annually, if I…

I have a set of the BFG K/O2s and they’re awesome. Pretty quiet, good looking, plenty of grabbies.

The pendulum swings with them. They do some really dumb stuff, but they’re all young guys making money, so i’d be the same way. They do some really cool stuff like partnering with Fiat/Abarth to teach Sara Price how to hill climb. They bring a wide variety of car stuff to a young crowd and for that I’ll let them get…

That was definitely a thing for Japanese cars. My sister had a 90s mx-6 (i think) and the key for it was basically a radio removal tool.

I think it was a 99% Invisible podcast episode about locks, but, unsurprisingly, there are way more products produced than available keys to lock them. Given that there are something north of a million units made of lots of models of cars, there’s actually a really decent chance your key will unlock another of the…

People 100% think I’m overly excited all the time because I use the (!) to keep from sounding snarky a lot.

Its interesting how old phrases can carry the wrong connotation to people in the know.

Jackie Gleason also has some of the best one liners. “The goddamn Germans got nothing to do with it!!!”

I’ve actually helped a buddy graft a FSJ nose onto an XJ before so it could be done ( I really dont recommend it). If i’m building my own though, it’s a grand wagoneer taken to ICON extremes.

The Jeep is such a goddamned heartbreaker. I mean, I’d spend E-type Jaguar sorts of money for that thing.

As a fun side note these have some of the best engine tones I’ve ever heard. They sound so badass.

I don’t dislike the idea of a static game edition, or one that evolves super slowly, allowing for the skill of the competitors to separate themselves, as opposed to the changing meta game.

Interesting, I hadn’t considered the off-road work truck aspect, which is a pretty good appeal. Do a lot of race teams prerun raptors? I sort of assumed they were more flashy than function for a race team, but I could see getting 2-3 people in them and some gear as a major benefit.

This is the biggest issue for me. The half life of a video game is incredibly quick compared to most olympic games. Likewise, there has to be a strict set of rules for training, match layout, etc. which cannot be adhered to if the game is being patched regularly. The only way you could pull of an esport is to define a…

This appears to be mostly a power difference, so assuming you could eek more power out of the diesel, whats the advantage of the full-size Raptor now? Beyond being a “full-size truck” even though the Ranger is still a big damned truck.

Really just need to voice-over Burt Reynolds laughter into some of the Fast & Furious movies. Should do the trick.

I assume 25k is in addition to a donor car?