Looks complete and it’s evaded the roving packs of tinworms that ate most of the early Japanese imports. Who cares if if it’s mechanically goobered? Absolute worst case scenario you graft in a 240sx’s running gear.  Bit of elbow grease and you’ve got a neat little Japanese sportscar that isn’t a Miata.  If I had the…

I presume the NASCAR memorabilia in the garage was also to remind him of the racial inequalities in motorsport?

Man, I love those old cartoons. . . The reality’s kinda wilder. Good old industrial might leveled at an innocuous consumer good.

Fair enough, and that’s why I tried to find Lyft’s numbers on the quick and mentioned Tesla’s for a more direct comparison. Tesla’s long-term vision is pretty similar to Uber’s but you can point to Elon’s little project and say: okay, here’s the actual concrete technology developed, here’s the manufacturing output,…

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Mass transportation is a public resource: government-owned and subsidized by the taxpayer and not really expected to turn a profit. Fares are collected to partially offset costs. That, and here in ‘Murrica, we can’t simply give something away for free, like some damn communists. Anyway, I can’t buy shares in…

You missed the boat. Back in “the bad times,” shuttered dealerships would fire-sale a lot of hardware. I saw multiple sub-$1000 listings for four-post lifts on Philly’s Craigslist. Hindsight being what it is, I should’ve grabbed and stored one, even though I didn’t have a garage at the time. (And actually still…

Forest for the trees, dude, forest for the trees. But seriously, since you’d rather get down on your knees and poke at the weeds. . . .

For example, here in ‘Murrica land, we have plenty of oil laying around to fuel our emergency services. Even if we didn’t, we can easily grow enough shit to make bio-diesel, or just…

You’d be surprised. In the hot minute I worked in cars sales after the early aughties implosion, the only GTO I ever sold was to myself. Sierras, G6s and Sunfires and whatever god awful thing Buick was doing went out the door.
Same thing when I worked at a Nissan dealership. Muranos, Maximas and Altimas all the way…

The situation is beyond ridiculous, yes. But. . . Your scenario? Nope, it will never happen. I know this for a fact because it already has happened. I’m not a stat guy, or even much of a football fan but there’s one curiosity that no one has ever answered, one that leads me to wonder if the naysayers are right…

The concept of the “gas station” that we have now, will change completely and be done away with.

Disclaimer: not a cop, no family are police, not a fan of about 75-90% of their methods.

This. I’ve never actually seen a mounted unit try to “transport” an arrestee. If anything, you’ll see them box the person in with their horses and wait for a cruiser or van to come out and pick them up. Someone poured a big drop o’…

Same here. I’m not even a fantasy-genre guy and I lost hours upon hours in that game. Once I got my grubby mitts on an Air Galley, it was all over for everybody. . . .

I’m going to wait a minute to and read the more in-depth reviews. My biggest structural complaint about AoW3 was that the naval game got neutered by the…

Hah! Don’t worry;  they were all over that shit. Apparently 45 bucks on AliExpress. . .

If a DCT wasn’t essentially a damned manual transmission being run by a robot, I’d buy their “bespoke” logic for about a minute. . .

Until I remembered Hyundai thought it was important enough to put a manual in the G70 knowing full well they’d end up with about one fifth of the take rate that GM’s complaining about.…

Sidenote in reality.

Bats are no fuckin’ joke. They’re probably one of the last rabies vectors we can’t do shit about. I had to put my cat in “quarantine” for six months the last time a bat decided to wander into my house.

Sidenote part two. That bat is fucking dead. They hauled it out of the bathroom and submitted it…

I’ve actually got a personal one, via my father. It’s tied into the legend of the 100mpg carburetor, so grain of salt but things in dad’s story are a little more plausible.

Dad’s a boomer. Straight-up Boomer, ‘47 baby, grew up and learned to drive in Detroit’s heyday. Maintenance machinist, drag-racer, etc. Dude knew…

Hah, as soon as I saw this I thought of an account I read ages ago that may explain this. Great story, and shockingly still around online. I want to believe.

Three to five years isn’t wildly optimistic, it’s impossible. Remember that you keep saying “prevalent,” not just something that’s offered. The implication there is achieving a near total percentage of the status quo: e.g. automatic transmissions are something that is prevalent.

Hypothetically speaking. . . Let’s…

Since I’m explaining it, guess that joke landed with a thud. Thought the lead up regarding the slow adoption of stuff we take for granted would’ve helped. Soooo. . . . Most social websites have a disclaimer about children under 16-ish, IIRC, needing their parent’s permission for an account. So, basically, unless…