Not gonna pick up a violin to play a dirge for supercar companies, their customers, or fans, but why not make low volume production exemptions?

The worst thing about driving in the U.S. is that there’s really no other options. You drive or... what? When the weather is shitty, you drive, even though the roads are icy and it’s dangerous. When you are tired, you can drive or you can... what? You need to work? Yeah, but you also need to spend an hour stuck in…

I agree on all accounts and i’ve also spent time in Germany where its citizens take the act of operating a motor vehicle as a skill to take seriously since it costs significant money and time to obtain a license. Generally, when a person has to earn something, rather than just buy it, they respect it more because of…

I agree that probably applies to some of them. It’s still incredibly annoying! I’m also surprised people like this don’t also use cruise control. 

VA... where they’ll arrest you for merely possessing a radar detector. 

I only drove in Germany for a little while, being on temporary duty there in the 90s for about a month, but I came away with a respect for the German way of driving, and a nagging question of “why can it not be done that way in the USA?”.

For me - as a civil engineer working in transportation - it’s our undying need to put in a traffic signal or a 4-way stop where a roundabout is really the perfect solution. Do any amount of driving in Europe outside the main city centers, and you almost never come to a stop, you just flow from roundabout to…

Virginia!!

People who think that it’s a competition. My family takes a lot of road trips in the summer. During these road trips, I almost always set my cruise control. I often come across people who for whatever reason don’t like to be passed. Many times during a drive I will begin closing in on someone who is going slower than…

One thing I’ve noticed is that the assholes with the giant pickups love to line up their tailpipes next to sedans with open windows at stoplights and then punch it to dump smoke into the cabin.
really classy shit.

Never ending construction

The “muh freedumbs” drivers. The ones who think that the right to drive how they please, and obey no rules of the road nor sense of basic survival, is in the constitution and who just endanger everyone else by their very existence. Obey the rules, put your seatbelt on, and for god’s sake get your cars and trucks…

The worst thing, by far, are the drivers that don’t bother learning how to drive (by that I mean actually drive a vehicle, not understand how to read signs - which is all you need to get a license) and the selfish pricks that love to camp out in the left lanes.

cops are 90% of the worst things about road tripping in america.  the other 10% is Ohio

There was a whole Planet Money episode in which the story was discovering that Subarus are associated with gay people, and lesbians in particular, because they literally went specifically after that market. It isn’t a cliche, it isn’t a meme. It’s a fact.

This brings out an interesting question - the likes of BMW, Audi, VW and the rest, they all have interesting blinkers that are separate from brake lights everywhere in the world but the US.  Why would they do that?  And how much money would they be saving by doing that?  I never understood this.

You know what’s better than a million horsepower? A billion.

I see you and raise you a RED Ascent, I don’t know what that means

This is indeed (probably) one of the pseudo factory jobs- they were called Centurion C-350s, going by some iteration of that with or without Ford in the name.