Well, we’ll know what happened if the secondary title of the game winds up being “Ambitious but Rubbish.”

All the potential bugs from an MMO tied in with all the bugs from an open world Fallout game system? As Jeremy Clarkson might say, “How hard could it be?”

I wonder why they keep using the Conti’s instead of switching over to, say Michelins which were an option in previous years? I don’t think Continentals are bad tires, but I have more experience with Michelins. 

That Mitchell and Webb Look is continually on my short list for good entertainment.

I’ve kind of just had a Gold account since the classic xbox days... so I didn’t realize they changed it to just Free. That’s good to know, thanks. 

So, just to clarify, if you downgrade from Gold to Silver then you lose license for access to these games?

Like most other things in a group, if you don’t have a friend you’d be afraid to drive with, it’s probably you. 

I speed. I’m actually fairly decent at car control and try to limit anything energetic I do to very small squirts of energy (like passing on the left) but I do speed - about 5 above flow of traffic which is already above the limit, of course. But I don’t tailgate, I don’t cut people off, I use my indicator, I don’t…

I should really visit Canada at some point. 

In other news, the Nissan Meh drives about as well as it sells, pretty much exactly in 4th place.

Jason, is there any indication or information about HOW these games are picked for classic consoles like this? Do they just go off aggregate sales numbers?

Pontiak Aztek with a facelift

There is a suburb/city of some notoriety near where I live, and I’d like my ashes to be scattered into that city’s water supply after being mixed with arsenic.

You know that, and I know that... but this guy didn’t.

LS2 for six grand? Sure, why not. 

The context you may not be knowing here is that this takes place in the past. Wikipedia acknowledges that manual transmissions can be called standard transmissions, regardless of a car’s standard feature set. That is just what they used to be called. I wouldn’t use that term anymore, though, it clearly would just…

Interesting. I’ve never heard that standard means automatic from anyone I grew up with - not saying that automatic isn’t the standard option inside cars - just saying that the term never came up that way for me.

As an aside, I once knew a guy who claimed his 4 speed auto in his 80's something-or-other was a standard - some kind of hybrid between a slushbox and a 3 pedal + clutch, because he had a long shifter with a manual looking ball on it and literally shifted it between 1 2 and D in traffic.

I don’t agree with a lot of this but somehow if the car came out I’d put my deposit down pretty much first day.

I only have a few reservations about this. Only uncooked hot dogs and ketchup? Where are the real snacks for road trips? You’re supposed to bring snacks that spill sauce, make tons of crumbs impossible to vacuum, and juice boxes and bottles that explode at the slightest provocation. Where’s the beef jerky to chew…