I really like the an air-cooled engine as the plant in whatever choice they make, as it is dead simple and allows for later, more-complicated vehicles to build on the basics learned.

Ok, bit of an out-of-left field answer, but: find yourself a 70s BMW airhead motorcycle. If you have no experience with doing this sort of thing before, then you have an amazing amount of information at your fingertips on these bikes, as well as great parts availability for the /5, /6, and /7 bikes. They also look…

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post.

It’s always the sneaky EULAs!

“Now, I tell you this never would have happened with clean-burning propane.”

No way. If there’s someone else driving the 4000-lb steel cage in which I am riding, they’d better have the same bodily consequences of fucking up badly that I, the passive occupant, do (e.g. death).

a buddy of mine has a track-rat 1986 911 Turbo with flimsy replaced door cards, peeling clear coat, worn shifter bushings, and a significantly bigger turbo. I have been chasing the sheer automotive rush of driving that on the twisty roads around his house ever since.

I have a feeling that it might be a different set of people complaining about the last gen and complaining about this gen.

I get that, and I own a ‘classic’ (jeez I wish I could find an affordable Vincent to ride everywhere). Mine’s a ‘70s example with all the fun quirks of mechanically-advanced timing, etc. When I bought it, that was the affordable classic decade, but   in the last year or so it’s looking more like the 80s and even the 90…

I love seeing weird vehicles out there, and so I would love to plonk down five figures (if I had it) to pay for an American company to build me a fun, new bike by hand.

The Saab night panel is the feature I wish every vehicle had. Instead, we’re getting more and more backlit screens. Bully for us!

Get pulled over for a speeding ticket and get a complimentary trip to jail because Hertz reported the car as stolen. What a deal!

I have only had one experience where buying the JDM part actually did anything better than a USDM version: the Cusco strut tower brace in the WRX is actually built to allow for more space in the engine bay, allowing for placement of catch can and bigger intercooler without jury rigging anything.

Can confirm: have apologised to coworkers whilst on the phone

Tony Stewart’s epithelial cells convey.

I want to want an electric motorcycle, but a not-insignificant amount of my riding is going ~100 miles from my house, stopping for something, and then riding back. The livewire looks great in cities (with its 146-mile city range), but as soon as you’re looking at highway riding that plummets to 70 miles, and I really…

It’s a direct replacement for the FA engine.

beat me to it

Honestly wasn’t expecting anything like this level of mea culpa, and I’m stoked to have some extra cerdits to throw at the dealerships.

It’s also fascinating to see the modern use of the Iron Front (Social Democrat paramilitary organisation) symbol which was originally meant to indicate the three prongs of being anti-fascist, anti-monarchist, and anti-communist. I’m certain, given your knowledge of history, that you already know all this, but I’m…