Wild guess based on hazy memories and a quick search says 28.8 is the magic number. Read more

The speakers in my ‘16 Jetta are total garbage. Would have upgraded them long ago if it wasn’t a lease. But yeah, the tech war of the last few years is as much about audio as anything. Read more

Gordon Murray personally insisted...never mind, that’s the whole car. Read more

Back in the ‘90s they were perfectly respectable. Gotta keep the time frame in mind here. Read more

I’m not even going to invoke my longstanding pathological fondness for French cars here. Those were really good machiness, and finding one in decent shape at a typical-used-car price is a small miracle. Read more

I ran QOTD/AOTD for a few months back in 2012 or so. Read more

That was the common narrative for us in the United States for too long as well: the civilizing wave of Manifest Destiny sweeping over (and away) savages as good simple white folk enacted God’s plan on the New World. Read more

Either chunky or thin-sliced or just even the random trimmed bits that you can get in olive-bar containers at some supermarkets. Saute the smoked salmon in butter, add some cream and dill and black pepper and a hit of tomato paste, mix with short chunky pasta. Read more

I can only imagine how it feels to be aboriginal Australian or Maori and hear this guy talking about claiming the land as his and repelling an invasion. Read more

Quick little side note: Read more

Tesla’s biggest problem has always been Elon getting in his own way. If they’d done the setup for Model 3 production in a (I hate this phrase, but it works here) best-practices manner instead of going straight off computer modeling, they’d have avoided any number of problems. If they can ramp up the Y in a more normal… Read more

If only. Spring break starts this weekend, not next month, and arranging big blocks of time off is not happening this year. (There are times when teaching isn’t the greatest thing I could have done with myself.) Read more

I am 100% in for this. Really disliked the move to the turbo 4 for standard turbo reasons (multiple dimensions of throttle response, basically) and this would not only rectify this but move everything way forward. Read more

Ouch. Okay. Read more

Yeah, stock definitely has that je ne sais quoi. Personal preference for black but that one’s a gem. Read more

It hits all the right buttons here in the Age of Radwood, but gut feeling (the only meaningful metric for a unicorn like this) is that fifteen large is too much. What’s the going rate for good ones in Europe lately? Somehow ten seems more reasonable. Read more

Staff/alumni meetup some night? Read more

USB ports. Read more

Gen X is not having a good day. Read more

Okay, so I’ve been seeing the GMG badges showing up over the last few days. What’s the story? Contract negotiation time? Something (even more) unpleasant (than therecent norm) happening in the digital media sphere? Read more