SUV with sliding doors you say?

So much for stopping global warming.

The Ridgeline is the truck that 90% of truck buyers actually need - at least around here. I live in the heart of Alberta truck country. Daily, I drive alongside Silverados, F-150s, Rams, F-350s, Denalis... many if not most of them are spotless. They’re driving kids to school. They’re towing boats to the lake on…

with a tiny bed

But, this time, it’s different!

Look at all his majesty. Those peasants in their thatched roof cottages don’t stand a chance.

learned the hard way to drain the water out of my racecar before winter storage

Just like dumb Americans, gerry rigging elections for a person with dementia just like their voting base and supporters.

Stop having heroes

Nobody is ridiculing the child, we are ridiculing the parent. Stop trying to eliminate shame from our world, we won’t be better off without it.

Naming your children to be fodder for school yard bullies should count as child abuse. Then again, given the state of the US education system and the resulting widespread illiteracy, perhaps abcde is as far as the parents manage to get while learning the alphabet.

I would settle for a judge ordering the mother to change the kid’s name to something normal, AND changing her own name to Abcde.

yes and yes. we are also experiencing climate change much sooner and more severely than the lower 48, creating permafrost thaw and ruining our roads. currently we pander to the oil companies and provide maintenance on highways on which oil equipment is by far the greatest percentage of traffic, at the same time that…

“literally almost exactly”: that’s where I tuned out.

“...then possibly redeveloped sometime in the 2030s as a mixture of big box retail Amazon fulfillment centers, townhomes Amazon fulfillment centers, and apartments Amazon fulfillment centers.”

So G8 V8 for life was a lie?

I’m not a fan of ostentatious-mobiles like Bentley, but even I have to admit that a tweed roof is a brilliant touch. 

I was going to say, yeah, grow it out a smidge, lift it, put cheap plastic cladding on the fenders, call it an SUV, and you’ve got a 10% sales increase automatically.

They are good vehicles. Problem is more form factor than innate design. I expect more new hybrids like the MB 48 volt turbo/supercharged systems in an SUV or truck form factor will be better sellers than a small sedan though. For the forseeable future.