We were never thinking about a Sienna, but when we went in to look at Primes, they said the wait list for our vehicles was somewhere between 1 and 4 years. And then clarified that those weren’t even the longest waits - they had actually been told to stop taking Sienna reservations, but they wait times were exceeding 5…

That was my experience as well. We just bought a new car, and would have probably gone with a RAV Prime or Prius Prime. With the Prius Prime they predicted, I recall, a 1 year wait if I put a thousand down that day. With the RAV they were actually reluctant to take money (they would, of course, if I was adamant) but I…

It’s not ‘clear bias’ if she didn’t have a role in making the ultimate decision. Governments insulate potentially biased individuals from specific decisions all the time to avoid just this situation. Do you know that didn’t happen here?

“The scope of the Chevron deference doctrine is that when a legislative delegation to an administrative agency on a particular issue or question is not explicit but rather implicit, a court may not substitute its own interpretation of the statute for a reasonable interpretation made by the administrative agency.”

What did the court direction actually say? Just that a new plan be created? Or that a new plan be created which considers additional / new factors? Or that a new plan be created that addresses concerns raised by the environmental group?

It’s not both in the slightest respect. But if this decision was a response to a court directing certain action be taken - then it’s even less likely to be successfully challenged.  Also - where did you see that the BLM Deputy Director was the decision maker?

None of that matters if the decision was a reasonable one. People are entitled to work previous jobs and then take new jobs in the same field. This is an administrative decision, not a court decision - if BLM looked at the facts, looked at the science, and then made a decisions that was reasonable, they’re totally…

If there is solid, science backed, evidence identifying a need to close those routes to allow the area to recover (and I’m sure there is - these types of decisions, as much as people like to complain, aren’t made in a vacuum), then the off-roading community can deal with it. The whole hobby revolves around taking…

Weight for traction, winter tires and AWD are all important. but I’ve gotten number of friends out of snowbanks and icy spots with a couple well laid pieces of cardboard for grip. Sand works too. Basically anything the tire can grab on to when stuck - particularly when stuck after a solid 5 minutes of desperate, full…

I find a lot of drivers (and people generally) have a default switch to ‘stop’ or ‘slow’ when they get worried or apprehensive about something.  Which makes sense in a lot of cases - if you don’t do anything, you can’t do anything wrong.  The problem (obviously) is that in a dynamic, flowing environment with people…

People always complain about left lane campers. Sure, I’ve seen it occasionally - but it’s hardly common.

Historic counter-factual imagining exercises are always fun, but I do wonder just how important the assassination of arch-duke Ferdinand actually was in the course of human history. I mean obviously - yes - it led to WW1. But that whole area was already a tinderbox with various European powers just looking for…

I would accept this as well, of course.  In an ideal world, it would be this blue and BRG and they’d have gone out with some historic style.  Instead it looks like they just threw a dart at a paint chart and said ‘done’.

So, if true, the ND will be the last of the stick shift Miatas? I can’t imagine that they’d make both a full EV Miata and a full ICE Miata. For such a low production vehicle I even have a hard time seeing PHEV and EV.

It’s the last iteration of this car - the LAST Jaguar sports car, the LAST F-type, and they don’t offer it in British Racing Green with a tan interior.  I’m not even angry - just profoundly disappointed.

Sadly, I thinks it’s been obvious for a while now that for F1, nothing comes before ‘the show’. Not human rights violations. Not the environment. And certainly not driver safety. Sure - they’ll reluctantly make concessions here and there if they don’t impact racing, or they’re forced to by some tragedy that captures…

I’m also not sure we want to be launching a massive, flaming battery through the air.

Came here to say this. The Promaster was an unfortunate inclusion - it’s designed around pure utility, and therefore can’t be ‘ugly’ (even with unfortunate headlight design), as long as it’s useful. It’s science.

Shoot and half of them are E-bikes so you’re just riding around, I probably burn more calories driving a manual.

It is the new motocompo.  Which raises, for me, the question;  can you charge you motocompo with your Prologue?