Expiate (XP8) = atone for (guilt or sin).

Can I add, slowing to almost a stop on a 5-lane road before slowly getting into the shared left turn lane?

Toyota hybrid?

I think you missed the joke, and if you were correcting him, you missed that, too, since it’s schadenfreude.

This is generally an agreeable sentiment, but I don’t think it applies here. I don’t think there’s a reasonable interpretation that would conclude that he was denigrating half of the species. He was clearly talking about one person.

Bitch doesn’t always have to be a slur against women. That was bitch behavior and you…

Plus it has two “supers” in its name. Two is better than one.

The relationship between manual cars and speed limits that I think is more prominent is when the car in front of you drives at a speed that is a bit too much to sustain for a lower gear (cruising comfort and gas mileage, not actual capability), but not quite enough for the higher gear.

I have a torquey, well-geared…

I bought a Z3 two years ago for $4,800. Did a little work on it and sold it last year for $6K. They can be had pretty inexpensively. Lot of fun by the way.

The 3.5L VQ was much better sounding than the 3.7L. Relatively speaking.

Sorry, missed the last-gen part. Good call.

A 1991 T-tops gen 2 MR2 (closest thing to a convertible) weighs 2,782 lbs. A 1996 Boxster (5 more years of safety regs) weighs 2,760 lbs. Where are you getting 700 lbs?

[A full-roof Mr2 weighs 2,600 lbs., BTW]

It’s not just young people. I’m in my 40s, well-educated and well-employed, but I can’t really afford a new car. Not really. Too much opportunity cost. Just went to the Cleveland Auto Show yesterday and it’s absurd what cars cost. $100K for a CTS-V, almost $60K for an Infiniti G37Q50SPi3.14...

I unconsciously just read that entire comment in my head in the voice of Peter Griffin.

Was surprised I had to read this far down for this comment...

First, a “factoid” is “an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print (Merriam Webster)”. Kind of like “alternative facts.” I’m not a historian, so perhaps I’m wrong, but I believe the apt word here is “fact.”

This is how it will end up. When I started working professionally almost 20 years ago, I had no way to work at home. Desktop computer. No mobile phone.

Halfway there. My first car is now 25 years old.

“A few months later...” Seriously? That’s messed up. How did your dad not just break down and tell her?

I thought the saw way as you (996 Cab vs 986 Boxster S), and then I drove them both. The Boxster S was far more satisfying to drive and so I went with it.

Not saying you’re wrong, but didn’t see any empirical evidence in the video of the speed of the vehicles. How do you know how fast they were going?