Yeah, they were epic pieces of shit but were still cool in my book.

I can’t decide between laughing or crying hysterically

There are no 10th gens within a 100 mile radius of me on cars.com. Brutal.

If the big manufacturers can’t even make a decent competitor to Tesla, how can you realistically think their AV tech can match them? Much less be better?

Didn’t that thing come with a manual? I wonder if there still are any out there. 

1st - Been beating this drum for a while. There are decent odds the big manufacturers are further along in AV tech than Tesla, but we’ll never no because 1: They exercise far more restraint when they talk about their system from both a timeline and capability perspective, and 2: They do are doing more of there testing…

Somewhat related: For some reason, I’ve always been a sucker for the 90's Thunderbird. I know it’s generic bland 90's meh but idk its just so proportional and smooth and good. 

Nissan is interesting because they are the only mainstream brand that actively tries to be the cheapest, as opposed to stuff like the Chrysler lineup getting designed once and just only getting minor visual facelifts for 15 years. A close friend of mine recently bought a loaded Sentra, and while I still have all my…

I hadn’t realized until just recently they kept making the cutaway chassis. I drove a class C motorhome last month and thought the steering was garbage and drove like shit because it must have been like seven years old. Nope! Turns out the chassis can barely handle that weight as soon as its built. 

I wonder if they would sell any less of these if they didn’t actually give it any hardcore track bits, but instead just did the body kit and badging and told people “this is the most expensive and exclusive one.” I’m willing to bet that it would not make a difference in sales. 

Was in the process of making this until I saw someone already mentioned it.

Exactly, they really are just a version of WalMart where that gives brick and mortar shops a chance to stick around by using their distribution. The guy at my local hobby shop told me that while foot traffic isn’t what it used to be, he gets business from places he never imagined through listing his stock on Amazon.

2nd Gear:

I should have qualified this with sharing I own and daily a ‘16 GT. Save for a small dashboard squeak when its below freezing, there is nothing offensive or below average quality wise (although maybe I’m spoiled with a premium). I don’t doubt the BMW is a higher standard, but the Mustang doesn’t leave that much to be…

That’s gold. Fun anecdote: I’m 25, and have a bunch of guys I went to college with (Michigan State) already buying houses in the Detroit area. One of them moved to Chicago last March and the two of us got an apartment together, and he was under the impression he’d be able to buy a house like the Detroit gang by the…

The gently used GT-R is fun thought, but I think the more pressing comp is that you can get any of the big three American muscle cars optioned to the gills without coming close to the Z4. Obviously that’s a bit of different stroke for a different folk, but they are all comfortable cruisers that can be a lot of fun…

Yeah that does seem low. All the Chicagoland locals are somewhere around $45/hour for a journeyman (no idea what residential is like, most of that is locally nonunion).

Going from a pipefitter to a sparky is a tough ask. I work for a commercial electrician, and despite the obvious issue everyone has of guys retiring faster than they can be replaced, the apprenticeship turns down a lot of guys every year. Being an electrician pays well because it ain’t easy. 

This is hilarious, but also gives me a crazy idea for a system where political elections are decided by handicap of your performance in the last election. Like to keep your job, you don’t need to win, you need to beat your opponent by a larger margin than you did last time. This is the only way we are recycling out the…