is burning man still a thing? I thought it jumped the shark about 10 years ago?

(also, is jumping the shark still a thing?  I think it jumped the shark about 20 years ago)

this “hack” could also be entitled “how to be a douchenozzle when flying”

and if it is a 3rd eye, do you have to pry it open?

my local ford dealer is asking for a $6500 markup on the Maverick, making an XLT, 4x4, fx4 Maverick the same price as an XLT 4x4 fx4 Ranger.

because that is what your momma likes up her pooper while your daddy is tied up in the corner.

^^^^^ this ^^^^^

I demoed one of these at Laconia this year. pop the electronics into sport mode and that throttle is practically a light switch, you can easily exceed your skill with some inappropriate throttle twisting.  the new harley motor in the pan-am is very similar although less grunty. 

goes like stink, handles very nice…

just yesterday, my coworker in the next cube was telling me he just traded in his old Chevy Trax for... a Chevy Trax.

he likes it well enough, it does what he needs done with reasonable reliability and it was cheap.

not very hot take:

The LN7 (and the contemporary Capri) with their bubble hatches were both better looking than their Ford equivalents.

The LN7 would have looked better with a Capri style hood treatment (and the EXP with a mustang style)

the same terrain dial exists in almost every AWD CUV/SUV on the market.

Ford and Jeep have had them for several years at least.

the most amazing thing in this story is that Holland wasn’t shot on sight by the cops.

sadly not sarcasm.

and aero. more length == more opportunity to make the air go where you want it.

unmolested GR86/BRZ, particularly when it was still a Scion

the root cause of the issue though was that the car companies were too quick to cancel large orders of chips at the start of the pandemic for fear of looking bad to wall street by carrying too much inventory. when they did that, the companies who had been nursing along the old fabs to build those chips said “finally!”…

the best training tool for any endurance sport is the HRM.

less offensive does not mean innoffensive or even remotely attractive.

they are ugly, but no where near as ugly as the low POV wide angle lens shots designed to exaggerate how big they are would have you believe.

the last generation of good beemers was the E23/E24/E28 generation

I would suggest maybe, just for once, taking a picture of the car with something other than a wide angle lens 1 foot off the ground and 4 feet from the front of the car.

you know, with a 50mm lens from human head height from ~20 feet.

while I am not a fan of the giant pig nostrils, they are dramatically less offensive…

this looks like a good place to start a project.

thx!

thx!