Because Americans, like Alton Brown, hate unitaskers. Most people should be using mini cars in places they make sense like dense urban areas, and renting a pickup from Home Depot for $25 for the 75 minutes they actually need them every other year. We should also be building out robust public transportation on the…

I like to think that after all the trouble and all of his ego he poured into this piece of shit, it gives him actual physical pain to see people putting a bag over his ugly baby’s head every time they wrap it in anything... but this stainless look wrap is indeed the final evolution of that insult.  It’s perfect!

It doesn’t look exactly the same - the actual stainless steel finish looks like shit. The finish is inconsistent between panels, and they often develop a green or brown sort of scummy patina on them. There’s a Cybertruck in my city that I see every so often and the stainless steel finish in person looks godawful. It…

Here’s an old video of a race car using all straight cut gears. A few seconds of this sound is about all I can take.

“Forward gears use helical cut gears, which automakers prefer to use in manual gearboxes because they’re smoother and can withstand more force.”

Have you seen the current Corolla and Civic? They’re pretty dumpy.

You have to agree, though, that the Ukrainians have been extremely ingenious in their approach to warfare - ya gotta work with what ya got.

To be fair: I can’t think of a way to describe this thing that doesn’t end up sounding like a nuclear weapon.

Fun fact about this trail. Its weak sauce up until the last mile and a half. When I did it, the rangers said most people drive to this point, park and walk and we say people doing that. The last mile and a half was pretty fun.

If it’s anything like our EV6, the features described in that sentence are available remotely in the app with Kia Connect. Though maybe not all of them are available in each of the paid tiers.

No no. The Kia Connect app uses the EV9s cameras to take 360 snapshots so that you can see what’s going on around the vehicle when you use the app. 

It must be weird to drive this and nearly be able to look modern pickup drivers in the eye.

They’ll help you source parts quickly through local warehouses, and will chip in with some wrenching experience if you get fouled up. 

My band played on the other Peter Pan Futureliner at a car show a bunch of years ago (can’t miss that one, it’s green). I will tell you from experience, it’s not an ideal stage in any possible way.

The Hemi is going away because it does not meet 2025 emissions standards.  They've known about this for years.

HOA boards are elected. But in some HOAs rules and regulations are like the US Constitution - yes, they can be amended, but the bar to clear to actually do so is VERY high. And as a general rule, the board can’t just change them willy-nilly. Though of course, they can influence what comes up to a vote in many cases.

Sounds like my HOA, and a big part of why it wasn’t a deterrent to buying here. We have pretty thin rules, and I don’t mind dealing with the ones we have, so there were no life adjustments I needed to make. In order to change anything, including the HOA dues, it requires a 70% approval in each district (there are 9…

Racism. After segregation was struck down, they had to get more creative in keeping “undesirables” out of their neighbourhoods.  They could no longer put a “no coloreds” clause in the housing contracts, but they could form an HOA that could judge whether you’re a “good fit for the community” and could hassle you right…

I wonder how that effects new residents from now on?

How did these become so ubiquitous in the States.