Yep! Subaru and Toyota have both made moves to Indiana in recent memory. They’ve learned that moving away from high-cost-of-living centers like cities and the coasts allow them to make quality products at a fraction of their former costs. What’s more, rural Indiana, KY, WV, MS, and AL are never going to balloon into…

Somewhere south of Canada and north of Mexico. ;)

Perhaps the answer to increasing production costs in their US plants isn’t moving production out of country, but to less expensive parts of the US. Toyota, NGK, Diamond Electric, and even Subaru have learned this first-hand. Subaru moved production to Kentucky to take advantage of a less expensive but motivated work…

Citation? Because in the past, the vast majority of the “US Gov’t pays $300 for screwdriver” claims have been bogus upon further investigation. It’s either completely unfounded, or if the price is correct, it’s for a very specific and very expensive screwdriver which is generally cheaper on the GSA contract that it is…

Believe it or not, it’s even more expensive to train new pilots. It costs $6 Million to train a single pilot according to the USAF in 2013. USAF fighter pilots have a 10 year commitment as well, and it costs nearly as much each year to keep them flying, so, you know, math and stuff....

Is there some reason they continue to refuse to put the spare tire on a carrier on the rear gate?

Kristen, I sent you a link to a website that has all the details on what’s been going on with the closure of the drag-strip and farm, and the ins and outs of the development and the scandals surrounding it.

Well, this is certainly timely in regards to my day. The ground hog I caught in my vegetable garden around lunchtime didn’t fare nearly as well.

Subaru ST-X. Why? Because it was pretty close to the actual production Baja but with a SPT-supercharged flat-4 instead of the NA 4 that the production car got. Also, look at all of those goddamned lights! Who the hell doesn’t want that much illumination while doing supercharged AWD things at night?!

So, here’s something to think about with Yelp. In my experience as a management level employee with various restaurants over the years, the number of bad reviews I ran into that turned into extortion on the reviewer’s side of things far outweighed the number of legit ones. As the executive chef, it was my job to…

Yeah, I worked up at Snowshoe Mountain Resort for a few years back in the early 2000s. School buses with painted wooden ski racks bolted to the sides for the peak times, smaller airport shuttle style buses for the slower times. Luckily I knew most of ski patrol, so I could just hitch a ride on a snow machine instead…

That’s a hell of a “keeper” hydraulic that it gets caught in at the beginning. I’m surprised it floated free as quickly as it did. If it were a person falling in that section, you wouldn’t find them until the water receded.

They don’t all wind up down there. Quite a few in both greater Appalachia and in the Pacific North-West find another type of retirement that is quite possibly just as hard and often, just as smelly.

Oh, you wanted it to remain safe from errant children and toddlers? Should have gone with the 4-inch-thick polycarbonate paneled display case that is bolted the the floor with 6" lag bolts. Anything less is inviting disaster.

“It’s dangerous to go alone, take this”

Maryland does one single safety inspection when you either buy a car (theoretically on the dealer’s dime, but it gets rolled into your total bill) or you move in-state and begin the grueling registration process. It’s a thorough inspection to the point of being ridiculous on some points. After that, you get biennial…

True story. I was working in Snowshoe, WV for a rather upscale restaurant in the early to mid 2000's which has since closed. One of the owners asked me to help him go pick up a new-to-him car up about an hour away so I could drive his land cruiser back while he drove the car back. He bought a blue 1975 midget. Said…

Gran Tourismo 3.

Jesus christ on a stick. First Siler leaves and Indefinitely Wild goes tits up, now this? Why the hell can’t you keep these guys?

It should be noted that the woman is holding a firearm in her right hand and a phone in her left. My guess is that they were trying to get the police on the phone and the man was attempting to prevent the bikes from leaving the scene of what is ultimately a hit-and-run incident given that the biker hit their vehicle…