I disagree that they haven’t aged well, but rather think that they reflect the times in which they were written. It’s a bit nuts to expect sensitivity from something written or filmed in an era insensitive to (your issue here). An anachronism can still be entertaining, and being entertained by something is certainly…

It’s odd, that people so opposed to “Big Government” don’t seem to have any issue with using tools available to Big Government for purposes that directly conflict with their stated ideology. Oh, wait. “Odd” is the wrong word.

I’ll say it again - awesome car for anyone who lays on the miles and isn’t doing it for fun. Fast, very comfortable, quiet - you can sit on conference calls, no sweat - and a trunk big enough for more than one body. I’ll miss it when it’s gone.

I have never heard of this game. It never would have survived an encounter with the middle-school girls, teachers and school bus drivers I knew, let alone parents.

I think those guys might need to re-read the definition of “fantasy”. I’m pretty sure that when the entire world of a book is the product of imagination, characters of different color are pretty consistent with the form.

I lived in a city that was a cruise-ship destination and departure point. The ships were (are) huge, and the influx of people borderline unbearable, if one was simply trying to get one’s shopping done. I have never seen so many people take pictures of fish and flower stalls, and I began to loathe those people after a…

Perhaps her disdain has something to do with Wilde in interviews focusing on the scenes of Pugh having sex rather than the acting of the entire cast. Pugh has pretty clearly indicated that she didn’t dig the press Wilde was doing, and I don’t blame Pugh - Wilde was turning her into a porn search term. And, let’s face…

I am almost certain that if I ever became a billionaire, I’d buy a Shelby Cobra, an air-cooled Porsche, a Rolls, and a Bentley. I’d also want a ‘69 TR-6, a ‘71 Stingray, a ‘66 Monte Carlo, a ‘69 Camaro, a late-model, pristine Lincoln Town Car, and a whole bunch of other shit.

+ $15,000 to replace every piece of rubber on the car. nd

If the state considers a fetus to be a person, with all the rights of a person, than the state (or municipality) is going to have a tough time claiming that two persons aren’t in a car when a pregnant person is driving. If they want to rewrite HOV rules to consider occupied seats as controlling and not the number of…

Get the Mazda. It’s fast, reasonably fun, will fit the family, and invisible to police. Most fun of all, it will not break. 

There’s always one, and the owner usually scoffs at the idea that the rest of them shed parts like a snake sheds skin.

Dude, you’re doubling down on the idea that someone using a phrase that has been in use for decades “invented” it. They did not invent it; it had and has specific historical meaning and a traceable antecedent to a specific event. It’s in scholarly books, it’s in articles written well before the founding of Jalopnik.

You are catastrophically wrong, and ahistorical. The “malaise” era people refer to was coined after Jimmy Carter gave a speech in 1979. The country was suffering from the legacies of the Viet Nam War, stagflation, a crippling energy crisis, the Iranian hostage crisis, etc, and he commented that the nation was…

That’s completely different paradigm; I’m sure you’re aware, but are just throwing out a strawman. Dealerships’ practices are intentionally opaque, and depend on customer naivete. 

You would be ahistorical.

We build some things simply because we “can”, not because there will ever be adequate ROI. That said, we’ve learned over the past 25 years that sometimes we just need big shit and it’s better to have at the moment in time we need it than to not. Whether Ukraine really needed this plane in peacetime is questionable,…

My favorite Saab feature was the night mode switch. Of course, the rest of the controls were intuitive and well-placed. I hate capacitive touch in cars for the simple reason that roads have bumps - it’s annoying as shit to have to complete the same operation more than once, or to have to wait until a stopping point to…

Anecdote is never a substitute for trend. Aside of the fact that I’m the spouse of a former LR owner, who had two; the third was returned with three faults the day after delivery, LR’s statistics are well-known throughout the industry. Your experiences notwithstanding, LR’s are patently unreliable vehicles, and that…

That’s true, but every model with ABS really only has episodic ABS.