Here’s the short version:

What: 1991 Nissan 300ZX
Where: I-294 north of Chicago
When: evening rush hour

I was driving along with traffic (nothing crazy, but there were certainly cars on the road). Everyone was going at a seemingly reasonable speed, when a snail appeared in my lane. I was boxed in, but then there was an…

S-M-R-T

Regardless of who any of the teams puts in the QB position, this will still be very, very true.

And from 2006-2008 the S6 featured a 5.2L V10 that made about 435hp and 440tq. The RS6 of that era, which never came to the US, was that same motor with boost.

Chicago: guys will start shining your shoes and immediately demand payment. Or they’ll do it for a set amount (usually like $10) and then go double or nothing that they can tell you how many kids your dad had. (It’s zero, mom had them all.)

Also Chicago: they’ll convince you that people only eat pan pizza there.

New…

Yeah, short bus or ambulance is probably the right answer. Should be able to get a used bus with 150k miles and a hydraulic wheelchair platform for like $6k. Alternately, ditch the moving platform and get a ramp and the cost of the bus comes down to maybe $4500 (centralstatesbus.com) for something with 200k miles.

I…

Shit like this is why I automatically assume that every black person I meet thinks I’m a fucking idiot who’s beyond redemption.

I swear we’re not all morons, but the only ones of us who ever make the news do so for being truly, completely stupid.

(On the flip side, I did get told today that I walk “like a black dude…

Also have a 14 TDI JSW. Love it. Picked it up Aug 2018. Had under 13k on the clock.

Parking on a driveway and driving on a parkway ...all while arresting the person who had the gall to ram into you (after you blew through a stop sign).

That said ...fair enough. I’ll let the sidewalk identify as a driveway for the time being.

The way that Jeep just kind of flips into the driveway, seemingly normally parked, is pretty amazing, too.

re: shoes ...

I like this opinion.

*biased agreement with biased opinion from a DSG-having diesel wagon owner*

And when chipped via KermaTDI, he’ll make about 350tq and still get 40mpg on the highway.

You leave Mercedes Benz out of this.
And Lancia.
And Mercedes Benz.
And Fiat.
And Ferrari a couple of times.
And Mercedes a few more as well.

Multiple (meaning one) people (meaning sister of the kid getting assaulted) see a grown man attacking a 13yo boy and record it.

Fuck. Yes. Unless she had a baseball bat or was secretly a ninja, she wasn’t gonna do shit and she knew it. Applaud the kid for recording evidence that will be used against this asswipe at his…

growing up near a small Illinois town practically built around a single Aurelio’s Pizza franchise

This past August, I picked up a post-Dieselgate Jetta TDI Sportwagen. I will say that David is correct here. While I totally hear Dan’s argument in favor of the Subie (and I think it’s a hell of a car), I still like the JSW/GSW better. I got my wagon with under 13k miles on it and including a 7yr / 120k warranty, I…

Megatron and Soundwave. (But I’ll give you partial credit for catching that he had multiple roles in a series I watched endlessly in my youth.)

It has since sadly departed, but for a few years I had a V10 Audi S6. With cutouts. Because.

Whenever some other kid would ask one of mine, “What time is your dad picking you up?” all they had to do was listen for a moment - “He’ll be here in three minutes.” You could hear that thing coming from the other side of the…

Watch the episode “Playtest” first and then “White Bear”. If you don’t like either of those, just stop. If you do like, go back to S01e01 and start from there. As was stated, there are hits and misses, but it’s mostly solid. I think S04 ends with a neat episode that includes Easter eggs from along the way, so don’t…

*sees headline, instantly thinks of “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey”
*continues reading, now has Calvin & Hobbes-related PTSD