one would think you could just make a deal with a scrap yard “we give you an address and a description, you haul it away and keep any profits”

if David Tracy could get $500 for a completely smashed kia, I gotta believe the scrap yard sold the scrap for $700.

do you turn into a flaming asshole the second you get in?
can you disable the fake engine noise?
you say it isn’t as ugly in person, but is that just stockholm syndrome?

do we know that the car was actually on autopilot?  or are we just taking the chucklehead’s word for it?  because no one would ever lie about that.....

somehow, the pig nose is not as awful on this car as it is on the sedan, but WTF is going on with the fake brake cooling intakes?

fuck.  RIP Sabine.

fuck no.  wasn’t worth $11k when new, why would you pay $11k for all that dryrot and legendary mopar reliability now?

I think Kia has one of the current best corporate faces. clean, attractive, consistently integrated.

Mazda is also good right now.

pretty much everything else suck balls right now. they are all overwrought, excessive, XZibit “I heard you like fake grilles and vents, so I put grills on your vents and vents on your…

I’m actually more concerned about the health of the drivers.  the punishment their backs take in that race can take years off a career, never mind the brain damage from repeated microconcussions.

actually I misremembered the brand, it’s a samsung.  

actually I misremembered what brand I bought, it is a samsung and yes, it plays fun little tunes when it is done :)

clearly, you have never experienced a really good dishwasher.

I recently replaced my old contractor grade one with a new LG, stainless inside and out, 48 dB super quiet, 3 racks that can be adjusted about 10 different ways. holy shit to say it is life changing is understatement.  only ~$200 more than a basic one, but…

are you at least going to upgrade that ‘66 to period correct disc brakes? I get the originalism fetish, but if you can remain period correct while deviating from the places where the original buyer fucked up, that is good.

i.e. convert to period correct power discs and steering == good
aftermarket AC == bad
engine swap…

sure, the AFC east sucked for years, but that wasn’t Bill’s fault, and while they may have gotten an easy ride _to_ the playoffs, they still had to win _in_ the playoffs, which they did to the tune of 6 superbowl wins, 9 Superbowls played and 13 AFC championship games in 18 years. The AFC Quarterbacks they had to beat…

what is the weight of the E-Beam compared to a similarly strong ford or dana rear end? I expect that it weighs a lot more.

just like hub motors, this unsprung weight massively impacts traction and ride quality, while exposing the motor to a lot higher magnitude of shock and vibe.

What is the problem with just putting…

the “gig” economy is just another grift where “tech disruptors” make bank of the backs of people to poor and uneducated to understand they are being fucked.

fuck all of them, I will never do business with any of them.

so the headline is completely wrong.

MiataDONK!

wow, biased headline or what?

the intent is to fairly share the infrastructure burden across all users, not “punish” one segment of users.

done right it should be:
    taxes owed = (miles driven * GVWR) * tax rate
so that it correctly charges for infrastructure consumption, but I am sure the states doing this won’t…

~’93 or so, down in Honduras with the AF, driving a 1 off customized IH medium duty truck which had had an air suspension tag axle installed to support a lot of extra weight, but the front axle left stock so we had to be very careful setting the air pressure to make sure we had enough but not too much weight on the…

rare != valuable

this is a $500 Richard Rawlins special that he would paint green and overimprove and then lose money on.

the only possible entertainment value in this thing would to be to drop a junkyard LS in it and sucker people in at the stoplight drags, and there are not enough tetanus shots in the world to make…