Not as good as the London Underground’s Rescue Units TBF.

Fun fact: Those walkways up in the windows have see-through “floors”. It’s a pretty worn/scratched tempered or bulletproof glass composite, so you can really only see kind of the floor below, but some people freak the fuck out when they gotta cross because some panels shift a bit or creak. It can be hilarious to… Read more

I had to do fire training before working offshore and never thought about clothes being claustrophobic before but holy geez. They put us in about 18 layers of fire fighting suit plus the head sock and the mask and helmet and respirator and that all promptly fogged up so I couldn’t see anything and there was no way I… Read more

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With just about every manufacturer obsessed with coining a corporate face and striving for predictable, tedious design consistency across their entire fleet, I can’t overstate how refreshing it is to see Hyundai forge this path of making wildly unique cars. Read more

This thing looks amazing. Someone should show it to the Cybertruck team at Tesla. Read more

So, so many Code Brown incidents, but here are my two most amusing (at least to me), both happening within 50 miles of each other. Read more

A dozen college friends & I went on an annual ski trip in West Virginia every year (they still do, I think? I don’t live in Ohio anymore though) & one year it was my turn to be one of the drivers. My ‘98 Jetta had not-great front tires and bad plug wires and we (along with the entire East Coast) were hit with a… Read more

Live in Minnesota, nasty cold and snow every winter. No Mountains though. This was up in the UP. We went snowboarding in Lake Effect. It sucked because it was so cold the snow was like sand

Harshest? Being in the middle-east all year. Same thing with Ft. Irwin,CA in MOPP level 5 gear in a M113 or a Bradley can make you lose 30 pounds in 2 weeks. Read more

I have driven a car with no headlights, wipers, or ABS from Duluth to Minneapolis in a winter storm. Read more

It’s also because that’s where the rear fog light is.

Something I noticed the other day while following one is that the new Vantage actually uses its light bar as a CHSML. I was quite surprised as I’d have expected our naff stateside lighting regulations to have shot that down, but it’s super cool that Aston got it through.

You also saw this on the low volume (but still mass-manufactured) Volkswagen XL1 between the running lights:

Fifth Gear was a car show for Top Gear fans who didn’t like cocking about and plot devices cooked up by Willman. Enjoyable, but in the end, something I’d watch at the time, but not rewatch later. The episodes are less evergreen and more informative than entertaining.  Read more

Consider me stoked. I’ve never watched the 2000s-era Top Gear and just recently stumbled onto clips of OG Top Gear on YouTube. The holidays are enough time to catch up on two decades of British motoring television, right? RIGHT?! Read more

Just release the EV microbus already dammit. Read more

LOL. American living here in Scandinavia...seen about a half dozen ID3's in the last week or so. Yep, the USA is going to remain joined with Papua New Guinea as the last country to do everything, when we were once the first. Shame.
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But I want the ID.3 sedan!! The U.S. isn’t getting any of the cool new EVs because all Americans are buying are SU-fricking-Vs. Americans are largely idiots. Read more

Nissan Micra Cup was great because it was cheap. You could do the whole year with 40K$ CAD budget (including some fixing). Not sure this will be the same.
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