You can ask me too. I ordered mine in June 2020 and received it in September 2020. They had not yet ramped up production so there was a wait. It’s a black S3. Back then it was $2199 for the bike, $590 for the 3 year full maintenance/theft plan, and I also got a rear rack and large pannier. All that with shipping my…

So a couple decades I was working for one of the largest companies in the world. 2 days before Christmas, the GM of our little office came to us with this news:

The second he sells control of the team that's it for his son in Formula 1.

Been considering scooping up a manual lately to have as a commuter but can’t find one near me that’s not clapped out. Ugh

I say just get the best Prius you can for $8,500. Your wallet will thank you.

“Security of buying from a dealer”

I’m not saying he built it with supplies from Home Depot... but that was a previous sponsor of his...

Perhaps it is obvious to everyone, but are we surprised his house looks like a Bass Pro Shop? Are we even sure they didn’t actually help him get this built?

A few things...

Toyota had a big hand in the engine development. The B58 largely exists because Toyota said the N55 was too unreliable to have a Toyota badge, so they made several significant engineering changes to it to create the B58. The chassis tuning is quite different as well. It is pretty ignorant to say that Toyota just took…

Sunroofs add weight at pretty much the worst possible part of the structure.

I just browsed over to the F1 Authentic page... those wheel rim ‘tables’ are, shall we say, a bit expensive.  They look like they’d be better used as a short stool.  The skid block skateboard looks cool as hell... but who’s buying a $900 skateboard to hang on the wall?  You sure as hell aren’t handing that to your kid…

Thanks for sharing.  Well written and brings back memories and feelings (and memories of feelings!) of my own. Such a pleasant read into the weekend.

What a powerful illustration of why these silly hunks of metal, plastic, and glass mean so much to us.

Boeing sold the plane with the explicit promise that the Max did NOT require new simulator training. They agreed to pay Southwest a million dollars an airplane if the FAA required it. The FAA did not.

Talk about blaming the victims.  Holy shit dude.

If the job site is unsafe - don’t go. There is no more say needed than that.

two thoughts.

As others have pointed out Minnetonka is a very affluent community. This kid has already got mutual funds/trusts, and he’s got an extra 20K for a car to go 5,280 feet on school days.

you live a mile from school. walk when it is nice, have a friend pick you up when it isn’t. or buy a true beater for those days. a nice old honda accord with snow tires should do the trick. pocket the rest and go to europe the summer after you graduate (which if you’re getting 20 large from the folks to spend here…