So this is it - these are the last stick shifts you can buy. And many of them probably won’t be around much longer.

This is doing them a bit of a disservice.

I love Subarus - and it was an obvious choice for us when it came time for a new car. I just wish I could have had more choice besides a WRX if I wanted a stick shift. Still, It’s snowing like hell right now - and there isn’t a car I’d rather be in than our manual transmission, AWD with winter tires. Calmly maneuvering…

I’m hard pressed to think of a situation where a person would be stuck in their car long enough to play a video came, where they also don’t have to be watching the road.

While it’s obviously not what they planned - and I get the disappointment - don’t discount Newfoundland in the winter.  People pay very good money to go there and storm watch.

Watching the video, I’m stunned that there’s a chance they all end up making it through that alive.  I’d have assumed some were gone before the SUV stopped moving.

So what’s the takeaway here?

Are you being serious with this title and this comment?

It’s Morgan. it has to be Morgan. There’s no other option than the one offering three wheelers with painted sharks mouths and designs that date back to the best of the 40, 50s and early 60s - but with all (most?) of the modern safety and performance requirements that come with a new car.

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.