I think the economy is doing much better than people are admitting. Inflation is down, and those prices are here to stay. People are starting to go back to their normal buying habits post COVID. As people tighten their belts even more, I expect to see the R word stop popping up more and more.

Uncle Jack’s ‘77 Toro looked like this, except NJ tags and a red velour interior.

My Uncle Jack owned a series of Olds Toronados, I got to drive the ‘77 across Kansas the summer of my 16th birthday while Jack slept in the passenger seat.

I spotted this beauty last week near my cardiologist’s office.

Comfort itself is a relative term, and means so many different things. For example, it doesnt matter how comfy a 120,000 Escalade with massaging seats is if driving a vehicle worth more than your house through downtown Canton Ohio has you biting your fingernails, just waiting for some teenager in a hyundai tiburon to…

The last Lincoln sedan was the Continental and it looked pretty darn cushy. The last comfy one before that was the 2002 Continental and the 2011 Town Car

Especially when you’re in an illegal cross-country race.

Toyota Century. The very last word in Japanese Luxury, with that classic discretion so nobody knows just how rich you are.

For its time, the Citroën DS, no contest. For all time, either the latest Rolls-Royce Phantom or the Mercedes 600 Grosser (which licensed parts of the Citroën technology).

I work in pizza delivery, and the vast majority of our orders come in online now. You would think people would check various things before they click their order button, but they manage to screw up nearly every aspect of their order, and then get upset when it’s wrong, or when they fail to provide the correct address…

I assume it’s literally meant for service personnel to be able to test systems. Which is actually kind of nice that you don’t need a $1000+ “dealership only” tool or computer setup to do. About the only kind thing I think I have said about these things.

The whole part describing how he did this interacting with software alone fills me with such an existential dread...

Completely and utterly fucked. Sideways. With a chainsaw, most likely.

It can only be a thing if people allow themselves to be influenced by these idiots.

“Influencer” needs to not be a thing.

Yea 85% isn’t great but if humans have like 75% accuracy on drivethrough orders, then 85% is a 13% improvement. Still, the order is on the display so if you drive forward and its still not right, then its on you. But as the video clip showed with the McDonalds drivethru, sometimes the machine just isn’t getting it.…

15% wrong is 3 in 20, not 1 in 30.  However, McD’s with human order takers has had a worse rate for me in the past year - primarily centered around Bacon Quarter Pounders, which I have yet to receive bacon on.  So I stopped ordering them.

Regardless, if you have a contract and don’t miss a payment, they have no right to take it. Only way that would be possible is if the contract stated they could repo the car for any reason and were not required to pay back the payments made, which would not legally hold up.

This is just theft, followed by sale of stolen goods.  The dealership owner ought to be sitting in a prison cell by now.  

How is this not theft? If I did this to a neighbor and their lawnmower I would be in prison within 3 days.