And that’s right where my mindset is. Average well-equipped car should sticker at ~25k based on my prior buying experiences (three new car purchases for me personally since December 2002, two for the wife since 2008) My 2.5RS ran me $17k in 2002. My Mazda 6s hatchback three years later (don’t ask) was a deeply…

War of insurgency. It’d be Iraq, post-invasion, but here, with a shit-load more guns. Those who started shooting wouldn’t be able to show themselves as long as the central government and command and control of the armed forces and agencies like the ATF and FBI remained strong, but they’d be looking to create a power…

1st Gear: I hope it crashes truck prices. I really do. It’s gotten out of hand. 

Neutral: Yes, but only if my ‘12 Legacy kicks the bucket in time. The original CVT shit the bed spectacularly (as they are prone to do) at 90k. The replacement (used) seems to be holding together though *knocks on wood* and I’m at 165k on…

So here’s the big question. Why did cars get so damned expensive over the past 5-10 years? Is is straight greed? Is it that the public is stupid enough to sink upwards of $30k into something that is ultimately 4 wheels and an engine and the dealers and manufacturers said “let’s see how far we can push it?”

I’m…

Late to the party here, but 3rd Gear:

I certainly hope greater interest by Toyota in Subaru will help the latter’s build quality moving forward. Subies have generally had a reputation since the mid-90s of being well built and safe cars, but as I learned form my mailbox yesterday, they’ve certainly been resting on their…

I’ve actually seen that a couple of times on my way to work. I wake up at 4AM to get started on the road by 5 (at work by 5:45AM). I’ve seen folks being field sobriety tested at 5 and 6AM on a weekday more than once. 

It does nothing other than give strikers the “warm fuzzies” of doing something, anything, to be a pain in the side of their employer. As others have pointed out, the vast majority of non-people-centric jobs these days can be done remotely. All forcing white-collar folks to turn around does is create even more dislike…

Yes. Obviously impaired box-truck driver at 6AM on a 2-lane back road between one old farm town and a new-ish bustling suburb. It may only be a “back road” in name honestly as it acts as a major commuter route. Dude was swinging wide at every turn into the oncoming lane and would alternate between 10mph below the…

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The ONLY way these are going to be accepted by the general public is if they are cheaper than conventional side-wall tires.

Your average car owner only cares about maximizing tread life. They don’t even give two shits about what speed rating they have in my experience. 

That’s true of much of “Vichnaya Pamyat,” which feels familiar in ways that its preceding episodes didn’t.

We went through this with Hyundai a year and a half ago on a new Tucson 1.6T AWD Eco. $2500 rebate OR $0% for 60 months. Upon running my wife’s credit score we crunched the number while waiting to talk to the finance manager and had him do some digging to find us the best deal to determine which to take. It turns out…

In case you didn’t google it yet, Snyder went onto National Park property (C&O Canal) and cut down a shit-ton of trees that were blocking his view of the Potomac River from his house. No permission, he totally knew it wasn’t his land, did it anyway. Really, it should be that we have literal evidence that Snyder can’t…

I notice that the internet’s favorite synthwave band is missing from this list. GUNSHIP’s new album dropped today and it’s goddamned amazing. The video for “When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies” was also released today and is made up entirely of fan-submitted reenactments of their favorite 80's and early 90's movies.…

Which is funny because I know it as a move made in whitewater kayaking to lift your bow angle so that you don’t “nose in” on a drop causing a potential entrapment situation.

11 hours from Leesburg, VA to Alexandria VA most of which was spent on 28 and the Dulles Greenway back in that OPM screw-up called “Snowmageddon.”

Luckily I was prepared with salt and a flat-blade shovel in the trunk as well as snacks and a couple of bottles of gatorade. I don’t think anyone stuck in that crap could…

Correct, ECU are the pirates.... purple and yellow pirates....

The music during the golden age of the SNES was good enough that (in Japan) they released the soundtracks/scores on cassettes and CDs. I have the Super Metroid score on cassette from back in the day. The music from Maridia was always one of my favorites. Add in the fact that you had to be able to cut in sound effects…

My high school girlfriend drove a 1992 Corolla All-Trac sedan that had never had a new set of tires put on it. This was 1997/1998 when she was driving it, it was a a hand-me-down from two older sisters. The first time she showed up at my house for a movie night, my dad and I noticed just how bad her tires were. The…

There’s a pretty simple solution to the gray area of copyrights and roms. When the company that produces said game stops distributing it and supplies of “new old stock” (unsold copies of the original game) are feasibly exhausted, they should have a 5 year chance to make more, or forfeit the right to that particular…