Holy crap. That’s almost as long as the limo from that Aphex Twin video. It’s still got the unmodified 90's Town Car rear end too, for 200k I’d expect a half-assed Phantom body kit back there as well.

There was a speedhunters piece a ways back on a 240 with a BMW V10 stuffed in it. I’ve never heard of a V12 swap but I’m sure it’s possible.

Hell, even if it’s wealth you do have I still think it’s still ridiculous to own a car for the primary purpose of declaring to the world just how wealthy you are. You’re not spending money on your own comfort or driving enjoyment, you’re spending money on trying to get people to think of you a certain way.

Gah, it’s been sold! Its new owner better take good care of it.

A motorcycle can’t fit several other people, carry a week’s worth of groceries, move you or a friend from one house to another, shield you much from the elements, tow anything, and are totally impractical for winter driving. There are plenty of situations in which someone wouldn’t want a motorcycle as their primary…

Nice! I co-owned a short wheelbase Series IIA with my dad in high school (we bought a project and restored it). Totally gutless when taking hills at speed and was difficult to drive in high winds, but it was a ridiculous amount of fun and made for some great times with friends. We eventually sold it when I moved to…

Somebody save those MGBs!

I think it’s mostly because a lot of them haven’t had the chance to learn. I’m a university student, I know a lot of men and women who want to learn stick but have never had a manual car to learn on, so they need to rely on the kindness of friends that have them. I drive an old Volvo wagon with a 3rd pedal and loathe…

What are the driving characteristics of the 1UZ + manual transmission like compared to the LS? I’ve always imagined it as a smoother and more civilized alternative to the SBC, sacrificing outright performance and modding potential for an experience better suited for a daily driver.

I’m not sure how reliable the source is, but this site says the 1UZ + W58 is actually ~40lbs lighter than the LS1 + T56.

Yes, the double-standard is real and is definitely unfair to Hillary. I don’t doubt for a second that most of the people calling her shrill, annoying, etc. have a far higher tolerance for those attributes in male politicians. That said, I don’t understand why Bernie is being held responsible for these…

The E30 3-series is definitely up there. Boxy as it is, I’ve never looked at one and thought it dated in design.

I struggle to see it like that, as I don’t see Sanders a rude and obnoxious person in general (in fact, I’ve often been taken aback by how patient and polite he is in interviews. He even puts many of our Canadian politicians to shame in that respect). I don’t read any more into it than an unconscious hand gesture,…

You’re correct, sorry about that. Re: finger-wagging, I guess I’m reading it differently than you. He gesticulates with his finger a lot regardless of who he’s talking to so when we wags it I read it as I would someone shaking their head in disagreement instead of the “disciplining a child” type of finger wag some…

Sanders is definitely not on the spectrum, he uses sarcasm far too well and correctly (source: parent is clinical child psychologist who talk about work a lot) and has no trouble with things like eye contact. Calling people “on the spectrum” because they come across as abrasive is also kind of being a dick to people…

It looks like what you’d get if a Mk2 Golf made love to a Suzuki Sidekick. How fantastically weird.

Math + human responses in a test environment is a pretty fair description of a lot of experimental psychology, actually. The research doesn’t strictly have to be about figuring out how mechanisms work to be considered psych, it can also be the study of how those mechanisms (e.g. attention, like in this study) function…

The outward image of blur collar ruggedness with the all the inward comforts a lawyer or stockbroker could ever desire. It’s as though many luxury tuck buyers like to think of themselves as the kind of honest, hard-working guy who needs to own a truck for work, even though that’s far from the reality for many of them…

Hey, if even one person reads that comment and gets a better understanding of what the field of psychology actually looks like, then it was worth my time to write it. It’s a pretty common misconception even among well-educated people, so as someone in that field I feel kind of compelled to challenge it.

Jokes aside, this is far from true. Our attention, memory, perception, and patterns of behaviour have a huge impact on our daily lives and our society, and cognitive psychologists (like this guy) try to figure out how it all works. Psychologists have determined the most and least effective ways of studying (fun fact:…