Most people go through life perfectly happy with a car exactly as it left the factory on its build date. It’s a handful of years of oil changes and tire rotations before trading it in for the next new thing. But my brain is broken (that goes without saying, I work here) in the way … Read more
Screenshot: Sony Pictures on YouTube Train scenes in movies are better than car chases 100 times out of 100. By setting an action sequence in or on a moving train, the stakes are amped up by orders of magnitude. One of my favorite action films of the last decade, David Leitch’s “Bullet Train” makes incredible … Read more
The Drive looked into not only Massachusetts’ ban on kei cars, but the organization that seems to be backing these bans in multiple states: The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, which appears to be the source of some of the ban language. From the Drive: Owners whose cars are already registered have also been … Read more
We all know what traffic lights look like, right? The red light is on the top, meaning stop, yellow is in the middle and green is at the bottom to tell you when it’s time to go. However, in a neighborhood in one New York town, that’s been flipped on its head by the Irish … Read more
Image: Larry MacDougal (AP) Air travel has become pretty crappy over the last few years, causing travelers to take to social media to vent their concerns directly to airlines. Everything from lost baggage to ticketing issues is shouted about in Tweet form. As usual, scammers have taken notice and have started to “help” travelers with these … Read more
The 1980s were good to the producing partnership of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. While Simpson was known as something of a shit heel in Hollywood, he got results, and with Bruckheimer helping him out, those results were worth billions. Beginning in 1983, when their first film together Flashdance, garnered $201.5 million from a $7 … Read more
