I found out about the acronym nearly 18 years ago, about the time I watched this show and loved it. I cannot believe the joke flew over my head since.

Not gonna lie, the thought of a Ridgeline with a 4.7L V8 derived from the J35 V6 block makes me feel new things in strange places.

“This trip should have been a Teams meeting” happened to me twice even before COVID. After I wasted 4 days on the road for the first one I took some flak for teleconferencing into the second. Big surprise - the three day “workshop” they arranged to get everyone in the same room and hammer out a project’s design spec w…

As a huge Saturn nerd I have but one correction to point out - Pepsiman was an unlockable character in (the Japanese version of) Fighting Vipers, not Fighters Megamix.

Man, I would absolutely rock one of these for everything local.

I, for one, welcome the real-life equivalent of a Forza race on Xbox Live.

Can confirm - there’s a lot of incredible hackery that went on in the early and mid 2000s to compress >700MB games down to CD-R standards.

He’s gotta be one of those guys who gets annoyed his Model S doesn’t get let into car shows anymore.

I’d totally buy a roll of Confederate flag TP

> 7. Never trust your life to one of their jacks.

Yeah, there’s a second controller port for the games that support it. The “integrated” controller is the same as any other - there’s a couple grooves on both sides of the controllers that you can slot into the system then flip-up to store one away. Clever design for its time.

YES! I was waiting for this ever since you posted a preview on your Twitter a while back. I ended up getting one just a few months ago, saved from being driven off to a landfill by literally about half an hour, and it’s a wonderful little game system.

Seconded for the S80. My late father was a sales rep that spent 30+ hours a week driving between sales calls all over the Northeast. For 20 years all he ever leased were Volvo S80s - he'd driven dozens of BMWs, Infinitis, Acuras, you name it, but he never felt more energized after a long drive than he did getting out…

To add - I can’t remember where I read it (it might’ve been here on Jalopnik for all I know), but a teardown of the 1.8 V6 shows it was a highly overbuilt motor that was suspected to have been a homologation special for a racing effort that was canceled around the time the bubble era burst.

...you just made me realize I spent more on my iRacing simulator setup than my team did on our LeMons race car, all-inclusive.

The first computer he said is the the same as bringing a 1960s Cadillac Coupe DeVille to an autocross, and the latter is the same as bringing a rental go-kart to Bonneville.

Grinding Gears: Is there a good adblocker for Android nowadays? Whoever’s running the GMG sites have noticeably loaded up the mobile sites with a metric shitton of repetitive ads from extremely questionable sources.

Dude, my head’s still spinning from the change in tone going from “individual” to “manager” in a completely unrelated industry (healthcare!). I spent seven years trying to stand out and the moment I was promoted the entire tone shifted from.”you need to prove your worth to this company everyday” to “You made it! Live…

Invisible walls are such lazy videogame design.

But now’s the perfect time for people to have rolling shitboxes. They’re stocked up on toilet paper and are gonna need to drive around to tamp down going stir crazy; it’s a perfect trio!