It always pisses me off when I read about rising gas prices and the average price is almost 3 dollars! Oh no! Here I am, already paying 4 dollars and expecting it to rise quite a bit soon.

I don’t get the desire to daily a pickup truck. Or as I call them, “open air trunk SUVs”. If I’m paying top dollar and getting awful MPGs, I want something that, at the very least is fun to drive. Trucks ride/handle like shit, are slow and all look the same. If you’re towing or hauling stuff that can get rained on or…

he does everything under the table

That’s why we bought a minivan 6 years ago! It held more inside than the Ram truck that friend has plus it’s comfortable for everyday driving. It can only tow 5000 pounds, but we’ve never had to tow anything. I suppose if we had a trailer then we’d need a truck, but the minivan has surprised us with how much it stores…

These were actually pretty reliable.  

Yeah, the last time I spent 20K on an old German car with 100K miles it was a Porsche 930 Turbo. (And this was 15 years ago)

Just name it Ein instead. I’m sure Cowboy Bebop would be willing to lend you an image for the emblem.

Also worth noting that the DCT development that led to the Veyron was done by Porsche and Audi in the 1980s, with the first iteration of the PDK originally being used in the Porsche 962 and Audi S1.

Epic, you raise a very good point.

When I look at that, all I see is this.

H1bs are just cheaper, not better. IIT isn’t as good as Stanford.

And you get what? A 23 year old slow as hell, heavy as hell, “sports” car?

Not worth fixing a FWD N/A 3000GT. If it was a VR4 model, it would be worth the hassle of re-doing the valves etc, because it would be damn worth it. I know the asking price is very very low and it will win the ‘NP’ category, but I’m still going to say that I can spend that money in a better manner. That V6 is a pain…

On the subject of words, how about “navel vessel”?

“...Chevy chose to use the name of a small class of small navel vessel—Corvette—for its then new sports car.”

This is a pickup I’d actually want to own.

I am pretty certain the correct term for frothy backend lube is “Santorum.”

The risk of salmonella from raw egg is pretty minimal in the US. The CDC estimates that approximately 1 in 20,000 eggs is infected with salmonella.

So I learned that Knight engines were sleeve-valve engines for cars.