The two-stroke triple in my ‘67 SAAB had the best exhaust sound of any car I ever owned.

Anita Ekberg advertising DKW:

Nobody ever taught me this, and it took me years of practice to manage to get food off a plate into my face with chopsticks, but I am delighted to see that I guessed it right!

Never dated a waitress, eh?

Being at heart a kindly person and not vengeful, I’d be willing to commute the bank CEOs’s death sentences to life-behind-bars-no-parole.

I hate to seem to be defending a car dealer, but if the same standard were applied to all the major banks in 2008, every last one of their CEOs would still be behind bars.

Why are police officers so aggressive when the crime is as small as smoking in public and not having a trolley fare?

I had one of those last night. It was OK, but super sloppy! If you eat one of these in your car, make sure you have lots and lots of napkins plus a bottle of water to wash your hands off afterwards, or else your steering wheel will end up a sticky mess. Also, the last time I had one before, they were $2.99, but now…

Not weird enough!

Panameras have weird styling. When you look at a photo of a Panamera, it’s pretty damn ugly. But when I’ve seen them in person, with one exception, I was all “Why Miss Haversham, you look so... different without your glasses!” The exception had random plastic spoilers & vents all over the place and rubber-band tires…

Another axis in the rating would be “how much does it cost to fix?”

They’re going to have to work extra-hard to talk as though nothing is happening, and at the same time it’s the fault of minorities or “antifa” or something, but I’ve got faith, I’m confident they can do it. The flexibility of right-wing discourse is one of the miracles of all the world.

Yeah, that’s the one I was talking about (the Panther), I didn’t know they did a newer model with that same name.

The price of batteries continues to fall steadily. The really interesting part is going to be when it is cheaper to make the drivetrain for an electric car than a comparable drive train for an ICE car. At this point buyers will have to pay a premium for choosing ICE over electric.

“Kallista” is actually a pretty groovy name for a car, meaning “most beautiful” in Greek. The Ssongyang Kallista maybe wasn’t the most beautiful car ever (I think that would be the Citroën DS, but opinions differ), but it was kind of nice, it looks similar to an old-school Morgan roadster, which is pretty cool.

That’s because, with Autotune and all, pop music actually has died cold stone dead.

These self-driving crashes are qualitatively different from all the countless crashes from previous eras of car technology, e.g. drunk driving leads to plenty of crashes, but practically none of them are due to the driver knowingly climbing into the back seat saying “Jesus Elon, (same thing, I know) take the wheel!”

After, as a novice driver, I learned to drive in a four-cylinder, single carburetor car (VW Type 1) I graduated to a hot, fast three-cylinder, three carburetor “sports car with super performance” (SAAB Monte Carlo).

Why do you suppose those lifted trucks are so popular? I’ll tell you why, pudeur.

For forty-three years of my life, in order to get people to give me enough money to pay the bills, I made myself into an alienated object, specifically a machine that measures land and builds roads, sewers and buildings. How do you get the money to pay your bills? What sort of alienated object are you?