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@awjayramey.bsky.social
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Handley-Page Victor respecter. In the pocket of Small Volvo. Vice-Minister of Propaganda at Weird Car Bluesky.

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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is the current crop of BMW designers & execs too young to have *seen* a Mitsubishi Carisma at least weekly, which doesn’t even seem probable? Van Hooydonk is Dutch, & it was built there. But Carisma lead designer Kiyoshi Honda has to be feeling pretty good right now.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After the fuel economy standards were reset back to 1982, the 8.3-liter V8 turbodiesel doesn't seem so dumb now, does it, libruls? ::Cackling as I option the 8.3 into my Silverado HD that I use to commute 3 miles to the office::
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bingo board for cringe #noreaster #hurricane TV coverage. Which ones am I missing? "hunker down" "batten down the hatches" "ride it out" "vowing to rebuild" "local businesses are boarding up" "city officials are urging" "this local man is" "unprecedented level of cooperation"
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Early Twitter was nice cause you could ask the Minister of Tourism of some tiny country a question & they would answer you within minutes & offer to pick you up at the airport if you wanted to come over.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Frens.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saw something crazy the other day, no pics unforch: A working E65 7er! Hadn't seen one this year at all. I now see more JDM imports in traffic than working E65s.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think we can all agree that the middle one is the most reliable of this three-car solution.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@jriz.bsky.social It's such a weird day, actually remembering 1996 & Huntsville, all the 30-year celebrations & tributes on TV & in magazines. And now we have doubled that time span. Voyager is now older than TOS was at *that* point. This Soran scene sums up my feelings about the 1990s basically.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
There's never been a moment in my lifetime when US automakers seemed more hosed than they are right now. Just bleak shit all around, & no hope on the horizon. Last time something like this was unfolding was in the 1970s when Japanese automakers were rapidly gaining market share.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Jag-wire XJ6 (with XJR grille) works surprisingly well in this color & with these wheels. #emaculent
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Every summer open-air festival or art show I go to now has a bunch of these in attendance.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
20,000 leagues *under* the sea?!? In *this* economy?
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
::Judi Dench voice:: The Staffordwick Home for the Deeply Unserious.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
W202 in the good color.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
::sigh:: I didn’t think it would come to this, but now we need coachbuilders & tuners like Carlsson, Lorinser, Carat Duchatelet, Binz, Trasco-Bremen, & Brabus to produce drastically toned-down grilles for factory models that won’t blind dozens of other drivers when the sun is out.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Saw some Very Wholesome cars over the weekend. The fact that someone keeps a white Pontiac Parisienne in this condition is... I am struggling to name the millennial version of this phenomenon. It wouldn't be a Neon b/c that's slightly more of a Gen-X normcore mobile. Elder Xennial at most.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Choose your Home Depot fighter.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Frens.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It’s upsetting how much I want this.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
2 Scrooge 2 Stingy
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Just a “chef’s kiss” dealer name.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
From now on my eyes can only process “Al Pacino” as like Artificial Intelligence Pacino.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Suddenly hungry for a chili cheese dog.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
::Aldo Raine voice:: “Fee-at Beretta.”
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You had me at “Van Armageddon.”
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Amazing how much good publicity Ford bought itself with that $1.95 cookie snafu. One has to, like, step back in awe of the dedication & time that they (apparently) have for such things. Somehow also very on-brand in a 1920-30s kind of way.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Made this for @jriz.bsky.social
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Briggs *and* Stratton? En esta economia?
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Summer of 2026 is officially Garbage Truck Water summer.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Whichever politician promises to end Grainger ads on Youtube has my vote in the midterms.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Doing some holiday weekend shopping but buying only *the necessary* household items like this.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
One thing I like about Aston Martin dealerships is that even if you can’t afford to buy a whole car, you can walk in & they will still sell you a steering wheel.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Micromobility now means dudes on silent bicycles passing you in traffic at 40 mph.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Had a dream last night that there was a sequel to The Matrix like two decades later & Doogie Howser, MD was in it.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Thinking back to the day the MittBot3000 campaign produced this & many people just sighed & went “Welp, he’s not wrong I guess.”
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
::lifts phone:: Hello, Chevy? Do you build or sell here any new seda… ::extremely loud incorrect buzzer::
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So, like, BMW execs that signed off on this have never seen the Twitter “X” logo, is that why this happened? “Ja, das ist in Ordnung…”
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Discovered the Forbidden Camera aisle at Staples. They keep these bad boys locked up.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Have now seen two different 1990s RHD Land Cruisers on successive days just around town. It feels like the 25-year rule is starting to go mainstream a bit. (Jinxes it).
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The eBays should have a downvote button or a U Mad? button for overpriced items, instead of the psychotic Ready to Resell? button.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Took a few seconds to notice that this one’s actually two-tone. I still haven’t been in one of these.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Best car spot of the season so far, & it got here under its own power! (I know, right?)
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Can the federales please ban Audi from the US, like they did Polestar, but for the reason that they are unfixable after the first driver leases them for two or three years?
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
1990s Volvo starter pack. (Do not expect the AC in either of these to work).
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Forgot what the Alfa crossover is called & unwilling to look it up. Just going to call it Soprano or Tivoli from now on.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Suddenly remembered that this is a thing that exists. My god, it’s as if every single detail was designed to be as unaesthetic as possible just to spite the buyers.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The Polestar situation is tragic, yes, but also Americans would buy EVs whose bumpers could come off in the rain & be like “This is my 5th one! I love it!” And that other EV maker would spy on them thru their cars anyway & share private images in its own chat rooms. www.reuters.com/technology/t...
reuters.com
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
One of the many things I love about Interstellar is that *all* the candidate planets for long-term colonization were very obviously hot garbage, which could be ascertained from orbit, so they didn’t even need to land on them & risk being stranded.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Still seeing corn-fed middle-aged white guys buying RoundUp at Lowes.
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awjayramey.bsky.social @awjayramey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
::whispering:: “Don’t buy anything foreign please.”
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