You’re not necessarily wrong, but missing a bit of info: Amtrak doesn’t “only worry” about travel between NYC and DC. Rather, the only significant stretch of rail that Amtrak itself owns is between Boston and DC. Hence in the northeast Amtrak does its own dispatching and prioritizes it own trains, as well as…

Which will highlight every supercar’s most important feature: high speed handling on cobblestone.

For a large portion of SUV drivers, their car has a massive role as a status symbol, quite literally.

This is more of a choice than it is institutional incompetence. Why spend precious millions on maintaining regional rail service during snowstorms each year when most commuters will be staying home anyway?

Houston is inhabitable?

Lesson for American car companies: when you buy a Swedish car company, sit back and let them do their thing.

Maybe she drove the shit out of it?

Would it be accurate to say that the Taurus was a proper response to the same problem? I’ve heard it was a pretty big deal back in its day. Hell, my parents even owned two first gen Taurus wagons consecutively, which shared the driveway with an Accord for comparison.

Dammit, and for a brief moment I thought to myself “Oooh! Oooh! Adverse possession!” I may have even raised my hand. I should have known I’d be beaten to it.

Key marketing challenge: getting Audi customers to pay a premium to have Porsche remove “heavy” items like A/C, radio, and carpeting.

Looks like I booked that diesel manual Renault Megane wagon rental for an upcoming trip just in time. I wonder if they have any brown ones...

Supply and demand: Amtrak would love for you to fill an otherwise empty seat on one of their long distance trains, but on the Northeast Corridor you’re competing for a seat with people who will gladly pay as much or more to take the train than fly (unless you reserve tickets far ahead of your travel date).

This is a good question: are boats really a good application for a hybrid drivetrain since they require continuous power output and often run at constant RPM for long periods of time?

“The law” is amorphous, divisive, and hardly representative of a national consensus on what is “good and bad.” What you’re saying sounds like a bad lawyer joke.   

Someone needs to make an acronym out of bacronym describing bacronyms.

Interesting choice of work bench.

You sound pretty naive. Explain.

The stereotypical flyover state resident reaction is best answered by the stereotypical New Yorker reaction: why would anyone live in Oklahoma City?

This has nothing to do with the adequacy of grade crossing warnings, nor people’s frequent tendency to ignore them. The fact that the support for one of the arms takes up a portion of the sidewalk has nothing to do with heeding or ignoring the warning it provides.

Well...don’t cross the tracks when the gates are down, red lights are flashing, bells are ringing, or when you can hear or see a massive train coming toward you. All the warnings in the world can’t help people that disregard them, not to mention railroad tracks present a pretty obvious danger even without all the…