I always felt two relatively minor changes would resolve that.

First and foremost - Master Sword should not have had any sort of durability associated with it, aka be “unbreakable.” It still would’ve preserved the point of the first DLC by retaining it as “weak” against regular enemies until you complete the trials.…

Beastwars. . . yup cool and all but my god, that Cyclonus. There’s my must-buy in this line.

Had to hit up the wiki. Interesting stuff, actually. What you lose in appearance, apparently you gain in overall strength of the material and the “chipped” nature lets you make more complex parts out of carbon fiber. I suspect it’s probably easier/faster to produce as well. So not bullshit but yeah, a bit…

Waittaminute. . . 50 large can’t buy you a Unimog, nor can any of our alleged sages suggest it? What the fuck do I come here for. . .

Minor addendums: ABS if available. I was one of those idiots who started on a racerep (K3 Gixxer 600). I went full Superman, which leads into point two: Lid, gloves, armored jacket, boots. Bare minimum for riding. On the maintenance front: get swing-arm spools immediately (if not equipped), and the appropriate rear…

Dude, no. That’s who buys STI’s.

I’d argue Lexus is just fine. Most cats I know who went that route are in the “I coulda bought German, but my time’s too valuable for anything but Toyota reliability” camp. The rest bought Teslas.

The new 2 sedan, the CLA, etc. are for “the poors.” Acura’s for people who don’t like Honda’s angry robot face and Infinity…

I know I’m in the minority (of paying customers) but the whole “no manual” thing really soured me. . . and the new M’s got absolutely beaten raw with an ugly stick. I love my E90 (2011: N55-powered manual xDrive) but BMW (or anyone, really) hasn’t anything to replace it with. Outside of a blown charge pipe and some…

Good luck!

One bit of advice: fuel injection. Makes the hobby so much easier when your bike just starts. Every carbed bike I’ve dealt with required a full ritual to the machine god at least once a month.

Tough to tell on the internet but I’m going to presume the first paragraph is played straight. I agree: look at this thing. It’d kill in the small-displacement market as a ‘Murrican answer to the ‘Pilen 401.  It’d probably do way better, on sheer account of having a large dealer network.

Seriously. Wade into the “entry level market” with a 400-ish CC V-twin* sportbike/naked pair that look stylish and handle (even) competently and the press’d lose their goddamn minds. The average age in the showroom would halve overnight.

*This is the one segment where sticking with the tradition H-D V-twin arrangement…

They tried to play the premium market and sold a ton of Streets. However, they had no volume unit to anchor themselves to.

The small-to-middle displacement, volume motorcycle market is exploding. They pull out of the heart of it rather than get over themselves and figure out what they need to do to succeed?

They’ve got 500cc and 750cc V-twin engines, and were(?) partnered with a Chinese company for a 350-ish CC P-twin. Put those in…

1st Gear.

This is so astoundingly stupid that it boggles the mind, which pretty much means it’s business as usual at Harley-Davidson.

If you’re interested in this sort of thing, Leonard French’s Lawful Masses went through the similar Dark House/Joyful Noise lawsuit. For added laughs, Katy Perry’s representation tried to claim his video analyzing the case, and he’s got a video about that.

Maybe if it was perfect and you wanted something a little outside the box for Radwood.  This?  Hard pass.

Starkist, obviously, because they’re not overly fond of dirty commie beatniks, either.

Ship hasn’t totally sailed. Clean ones with reasonable mileage are in the 20-30K range, and you’re all but guaranteed appreciation in value. Nuggets are cheaper but at least you can still source repair/replacement parts as long as the body’s clean. Your ROI may be a lot less, but there’s far less entertaining…

This is true and probably an oversight on my part. All later cars do require adding a fancier widget to the ol’ toolkit.

That said, I consider some form of “professional” scan tool/diagnostic solution part and parcel of your toolkit for anything built in the past three decades. With the GTO, the best I could do with a…

We’re in a similar situation. It could be done but realistically, we’d stay two cars. Figure if someone’s back in the office after this mess, the person working from home is land-locked until the other gets back. The best part about not going in the office is, to be blunt, the ability to run errands on your time, e.g.…