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My first thought was, “Oh cool, now we know where the tooling for the Vantage ended up.”

The climate is a slow-motion apocalypse, the president is an unalloyed dolt, the olds have kept all the money and influence for themselves, everyone is becoming intensely and continuously aware of multiple personal traumas and agonies about identities, and job prospects aren’t anything exciting unless you love the Read more

Oh, dear. At first I was all happy to see an original Bell’s product getting some widely-seen love, but then you had to start talking about the Olympic. We used to live in Rockford in the ‘80s, and the Olympic was Dad’s default choice for after-work celebrations. Shame that the stuffed mushroom caps aren’t still on Read more

Would a heater grid around the battery, or some other system to keep all those cells at a nice toasty room-ish temperature, do anything to stave off this problem? Seems like a probably worthwhile tradeoff to get back all the range. Read more

Midrange torque. Literally the same car with the 2.4 and a decent slug of midrange right where that absurd valley currently lives would be the best  car in the world. Read more

I wanted to rent one of these on our ring-road-heavy trip to Iceland a few months ago. They were unavailable. I was disappointed. Read more

Just a small reality check here: Does anyone have any love for Tesseract or Monuments? Read more

He’s still got a ways to go before he’s at the Bernie Ecclestone level of “fuck you and your morals, you wuss. Read more

The Porsches all weekend were lauded for their ability to save fuel and be gentle on tires... Read more

Saw a few of these in Iceland recently. Totally looked the business. Just can not figure out this lemminglike push to small crossovers. We are reduced as a world because of this. Read more

Leave your thoughts about Poison aside (as hard as it may be to do for many of us); CC DeVille is apparently a first-class scholar of rock/pop-music history. The guy cares about it. Also just supposed to be a good friendly dude. Read more

Flipping through the Billboard Hot 100 right now and it’s like: fuuuuuck, this is like showing up to the fight behind the school in an attack helicopter. Read more

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That tweed-and-banjos thing has (thankfully) been over for a while, but there’s still got to be some room for “Come On Eileen.”

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Only problem is that even Duran Duran’s secondary tracks are several quanta ahead of the current state of the game.

Honda CBR250R. A better all-around bike than the Ninja 250R. Everyone thought it was the second coming of Christ when it came out in 2011. Good ones are well within your budget.