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  1. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Besides-- even though it is kind of stupid, the VW voice interface is actually great. It's too stupid now to try and find the defrost "button" or set the temperature for the interior (especially at night; engineering geniuses at VW give you overhead lights that you can never shut off but NO...
  2. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    It is just about the most fun-driving car at it's price point. I love them both, but the black one is getting on in miles (120K+) and needs a few things. I drive a ton. I wish the winter wheel set fit both of them, but it doesn't. 17" wheels don't clear the calibers in the 2023, so I bought a...
  3. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Plus I added this recently: It's pretty damn fun too... I can use launch mode because this one is not a 6sp.
  4. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I have had 2 of them. I have the 2023 (and the side mirrors don't retract like that). It is the most fun, greatest car I have ever owned. You'll love it. Good choice. My only beef with it was the is the deletion of almost all buttons and knobs in favor of an extensive touch screen interface...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Even Wall Street agrees: (but fails to mention the healthcare associated risk with their 18 year old hotties breaking hips in December, January and February): It's important to take Sonic's report with a grain of salt. Sonic is a drive-thru chain, after all, and its sales are more weather...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Factor in that I can fill 1/3 of the cup with one concoction and 2/3 of the cup with 2 others... The slope approaches infinite.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Random fast food stuff: https://www.seriouseats.com/soda-we-try-all-100-flavors-from-the-coke-freestyle-machine I actually think the number of combinations possible approaches infinity (because you can mix them in an unlimited number of ways)... I see them at Five Guys But McDonalds is...
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    Health Problems

    I don't know where else to put this; But this shit is revolutionary gene therapy. I don't see how they can do this without a bone marrow transplant, though- that's tough and risky...
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    Who died? (Celebrity Deaths)

    I thought he incorporated all that was good about the Howard Stern show-- he was unfiltered, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes controversial, and clearly was a real human being. He may have been the only human contact/personal relationship that Howard Stern had to the world. Everything else...
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    Maybe the 1980's hair look will never come back (but Connie Selleca still had magic).
  17. lgarthy

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    From Iceland, but not 50 feet tall like this girl:
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  21. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    100 miles into my Nexen winter tires... No real snow yet just icy conditions. Holy shit is there a lot of challenging data to sort through with regard to snows/winter tires. A lot of it is pretty questionable with regard to real world meaningful utility. There are tons of road tests and...
  22. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Can-- but not cheap... more expensive than the option of just swapping out the tires off the 19" rims (provided there isn't a douchebag swapping them out and cracking the stock rims).
  23. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Zero point Zero
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    And this is what I thought vegetables fucking was all about...
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    https://dogtime.com/news/130536-thanksgiving-miracle-colorado-dog-found-after-two-months
  26. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Less than 24 hours and 10 miles after having the snows put on...
  27. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Well, you would be right if you don't live in a place where there is snow. But I also remember a couple of years back when I was at a conference in DC. 1/2" of snow an the entire fucking region is paralyzed. I also have been across the continental divide 7 times once (in one trip) during...
  28. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    It's the biggest weakness of the Golf R-- Too much rim and not enough tire-- makes the car go fast, but super vulnerable to pot-holes and shit roads.
  29. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Probably true and the tires weren’t free… just the replacement rim and VW repair bill
  30. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    2023 Golf R Thoughts on snow tires. I've always been a "winter wheel" person and had a separate set of wheels for summer and winter. But the 2023 Golf R's calipers make that less reasonable since they can only accommodate an 18" wheel or more. So switching from an 18" wheel or a 19" wheel...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I feel like I am not getting enough attention, so here...
  32. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    I respectfully disagree: https://www.audiworld.com/articles/2021-audi-sq5-review-a-sports-car-in-luxury-suv-clothing/
  33. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    si senor, y muy delicioso de la coca de mexico!
  34. lgarthy

    What vehicle do you drive?

    Just got this to add to the German sports car collection...
  35. lgarthy

    Lawmen: Bass Reeves

    I was hoping it would be a Western. Like a black "Justified" with a basis in history.
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    Reacher

    Alan Richson carried the show. Lee Grant's books are (mostly) a ton of fun. Jack Reacher usually gets pretty messed up in most of them. But the Alan/Jack closeness is damn near perfect. Compare that to the Tom Cruise version. The Season 2 preview looks like it does better than what season 1...
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    Lawmen: Bass Reeves

    I watched the first 2 episodes. I was hoping it would jump past all of the "origin story" crap. Guess not. Pacing is already off.
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    Why do I even...
  39. lgarthy

    The Fall Guy (2024)

    I guess I have to yield to evidence. But I completely get your point... and I think I would rather hang out with Lee Majors or Scott Bakula than Gossling. But it's all fantasyland with no basis in reality (for me). Who knows?
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    The Fall Guy (2024)

    Ummmm the Original Blade Runner was with Harrison Ford and was FAR SUPERIOR (in all of it's re-releases and edits) than RG's piece of crap. Lee Majors walked the walk and talked the talk. He blurred the lines between actor and reality. He was bigger than life in age when a screen was 10 inches...