Episode 12: Finally, The Perfect Cop Truck For Hiding Inside While Watching A Mass Shooting

I keep trying to class up the PCA with my crapcans. It's like Naruto-running into Area 51: if enough of us dirtbags show up, who's gonna stop us? (Most of us are fine! I swear!) Also, they are CHARGING for Guards Red now. CHARGING FOR IT. IT IS AN EXTRA COST ON THE SPEC SHEET. PORSCHE, ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME ANGRY?! Between this and making a ***convertible*** GT3, what the hell are they even doing anymore? I predicted the worst when I saw they grabbed an exec from McLaren, and it looks like it's coming true and worse. McLaren doubled down on special editions so hard that everything they released seemed to be a special edition, and then there was such a glut of special editions that nothing they released felt special anymore. That's a yikes from me, dawg. That's the kind of business strategy that can pad the numbers in a K-shaped economy, sure, but I don't think it's particularly sustainable in the long run. Even the investor-dweebs got SO tired of McLaren pulling this very thing. Now, I don't have any faith that the top end of that K will ever get slapped down to reality in my lifetime because we live in hell and nearly everyone in power gets money from the ultra-rich who push them to maintain the status quo. Hope is dead, and I probably won't even ever be able to afford a Cayenne to tow my 944. I will be slapping plates on the race car forever, until I die, and possibly dailying the silly thing when everything else keeps shooting up in price so high that my one reliable car ends up getting pressed into daily-driver duty. (Well, if I can ever move it up from Texas, anyway. Good grief, the price of everything is so cooked now.) I still think parsh would be better served by a solid entry-level manual 911, plus a next-gen Box/man/944/914-style entry-level sports car. A fun car. Not a crossover. A car, like the cars that built parsh's whole image. The GT4 problem is a canary in the coal mine, IMHO. What's left of Porsche's "because racecar" brand image if they're no longer known for race cars and sports cars? They should be throwing a Macan into Baja racing, too, IMHO. If Porsche makes it, they should race it. Send it or sit down. You know what sickos will keep coming to your showrooms and parts counters years, decades, or hell, possibly centuries since I feel like life will spite me by keeping me around for too long on this toilet earth so I can suffer through the 42nd timing-and-balance-belt swap on the only Porsche I can afford? Those sickos who buy the nice car once they feel like they've made it, and then a few years later, decide they'd like a slightly newer nice car, or even a nicer version of the nice car? Yeah. It's not the investment goons who'll jettison their convertible GT3 for the next newest, shiniest thing. It's the real, true sickos who can scrape together their Dentist Money (TM) for whatever 911 they can afford. There has to be an on-ramp for the merely Okay-To-Do. A brand has to remember to water its Real True Car Sicko Garden with more attainable versions of its cars. It wasn't the GT3 RS BBQ WTF that saved Porsche's butt in the '90s; it was the more mass-market Boxster and Cayenne. (This has been a person who is supremely dissatisfied with the direction of a company that's CHARGING FOR GUARDS RED WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING HERE going off in the comments. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, I guess.)

The jeep Grand wagoneer is also what seemingly every Nebraska middle aged lady who manages a chain restaurant drives.

I will buy the Tran Girlismo magazine

Listening to the conversation about tactile buttons whole driving a rental newish Kia van with 100% touch screen controls on everything not on the steering wheel was a hell of an experience.

I'm doing it now, I'm integrating TAWS warning sounds into my car.

no the correct length of time for the shapes place song to loop for is 10 hours.

In the glorious transsexual soviet of Oakland, California the police still have a few crown vics.

Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy, born at just the right time to have the "aspirational but attainable" 911 ripped from my grasp and put up on the "alternative asset" shelf 🙃

i should play most wanted again...

at the risk of sounding like a huge dork, lately America has kind of been feeling like a nation run by and catering to the classical idea of a dragon - a bunch of big monsters sitting on piles of gold that will kill you if you try to get like 10 coins from it to buy some bread

Weirdly gender affirming to be an unemployed NB white guy in this economy I suppose

I would happily buy a physical Tran Girlismo magazine, then make art out of it and send it back to you

I saw an F150 Lightning that belonged to the city recently. Every now and then I eye listings for used ones, they’re so cheap rn compared what they were selling for new.

I know it's not a Questions Post, but I am curious. I'm a cishet white dude who drives a lifted '99 Land Cruiser on 35s. I've got a sticker on it that says "y'all means all" with the pride flag. What else can I do to indicate that I'm not a threat

i would like to make my noise for a physical tran girlismo magazine (or twice-yearly media equivalent): aaaaaaaaa yes pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I HATE the software defined Audio/Climate knobs. Controls should work by feeling for them. This control should be classified the same as texting while driving. Of course someday they will let you customize them... for a monthly subscription.

The Crown Vic was assembled in Canada.