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I like bold interiors but the M5 is enormous, and the leg room on those back seats looks pretty bad, but I guess the front seats could be pushed far back.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 17h

The “Big 3” strategy makes no sense. Limit your market to sellling gas guzzlers to Americans? Even if that could go on forever wouldn’t that inherently cause contraction of their business. Is that what they want?

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 18h

ACAB strangely does not apply to this car parked in town.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 20h

Name a more iconic duo than EV's and 12volt battery drain.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 22h

Our friends who live in a Victorian mansion always claimed they were going to dress up and just kinda spookily hang out by the windows but I don’t think they ever did it. Perfect opportunity.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 22h

That escalated quickly I guess we are typewriter people now.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 23h

It’s been mentioned before but it’s sorta amazing how quickly Toyota has been entrenched into this chud lifestyle. Might be more chud than ford at this point.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I actually liked the ID.4 package a lot. However, the only way I could describe the driving experience was "drove like a car simulator" I do wonder if I had a bad example. Also the lack of rear window switches felt like a slap in the face every time it caught my eye.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did you know that they made an electric cube with 240 miles of range? Did you know they sold it in Canada? Did you know you can legally import it to the US if you ask Kia to write you a letter? :] #WeirdCarBS

A yellow Kia Soul ev on a test track in the desert facing the camera.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m increasingly of the opinion that money is fake, at least for the government.* If money is fake why are we worrying about paying for good stuff. Use fake money to make peoples lives better not worse.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I miss small phones — I kinda want the new foldable Motorola Razr but I’m pretty deep in the apple ecosystem

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Glad they are finally testing the Monroe Box, I think Marvin will be proven right.

An elaborate box that the Simpson's therapist Marvin Monroe wants to raise a child in, to prove his theory that the child will grow to hold a deep resentment towards him.

Screen Cap saying "That's the beauty part. It's already built. I need the money to buy a baby."

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not to make light of your thread, I hope you get the chance to give your experience the retelling it deserves. But my wife was also T-Boned and hospitalized at a similar age going to a Phish show. Perhaps a surprisingly relatable experience?

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wait does the transitive property apply?

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

😂 if that doesn’t work try some orange loctite

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I have to say my Saab 900’s valve cover must be installed with the care of Nicholas Cage handling the VX poison in the rock. Otherwise the bolts back out and it leaks.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You know what I miss. Wires. When there were wires I never had trouble projecting my lessons, playing a song or connecting to the internet. Right now my presentations work about 40% of the time.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look I’m not telling you guys what to do, but I’m pretty sure we would burn Citi field to the ground if they fired Mr. Met. Philadelphians would raze all of South Philly for the Phanatic.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah I think the exterior is interesting I could even grow to like it. But this looks like a futuristic torture chamber. Does nobody want their car to be cozy?

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like the looks of the Celestiq more, whats a couple hundred thousand between friends???

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our simple little ChargePoint would talk directly to the power company to report my usage (and time) which is how they calculated their off peak credits. I believe it was one of 2 chargers they would accept. All the info you would ever need is in the app, idk if it creates invoices as such.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I was loaded the P5 would be my daily driver. I guess I’d have to live in Europe too, such sacrifices.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh man kind of sucks they won’t accept like a ChargePoint report for invoicing. It’s good enough for my power company.

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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The only American sedan you can buy in the US right now is the $400,000 Cadillac Celestiq, the $36,000 CT4, or the $49,000 CT5. Like they do still sell sedans here, but American car makers did kinda just say "You WILL buy an SUV and you WILL like it."

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like how GM was basically “here’s this gross little car you people wanted so bad 🤮” Then is like “I don’t get it no one would buy it for the 3 months it was on sale 🤷🏼‍♂️ more trucks I guess”

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I didn’t realize you couldn’t charge at home. It’s a game changer.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah but the gobbler is delicious, it should be year round.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There used be a street a couple blocks over that would decorate as a theme then they would close it down and it basically became a Halloween block party. I’d donate money every year for the residents expenses. Then the cops got rid of it. So trick or treating slowed down but it’s still bumping.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I fear the person who spent all that money on a black on black on black ID Buzz

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s that but also trick or treating is consolidating into the “good” spots. There is less just walking around your own sleepy subdivision. My neighborhood is a good spot — no regrets.

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Rory @norwichgiant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Less than a week until my little weird car social in a lovely Norfolk country pub. It's going to be a nice group of people, interesting cars and great food so why not come along? #WeirdCarBS

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am mentoring a new teacher. He had to fill out a carbon paper form. He has never experienced carbon paper before. "Do I have to fill this out three times?" No just write firmly, see how it transfers your writing. "wow cool"

static.klipy.com

Man Ages Rapidly

ALT: Man Ages Rapidly

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Proportions of EVs are different than most ICE cars (wheels are often pushed out with small overhangs). This kind of messes with people’s sense of scale especially in pictures.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The new web filter the district installed has the stink of AI to it. You can send a link to students and it will work like 80% of the time. There appear to be not hard and fast rules. It appears to be making decisions probabilistically which is kinda a problem......

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is absolutely nothing that a lady with cheekbones so high her face borders the uncanny valley speaking directly to camera can’t sell me.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s a great song and a great commercial that almost certainly had something to do with my first new car purchase being a GTI. But we need to be honest and admit it can’t compete with our modern influencer/AI super commercials.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly this was before functional camera phones — I think most instincts now are to come out filming. I always intended to get a dash cam but it’s one of those things where I just never pulled the trigger.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t disagree with you. Only when every single person of “authority” tells you something else it’s hard to stick to the common sense “get off the road” ideal.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Last time I was in an accident I was rear ended. Car damaged but drivable. I said let’s pull around the corner and out of traffic. Other driver took off. I was told about a million times how stupid I was and never to do that. Honestly not sure what I’d do next time.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The struts are hidden under the headliner so it appears to be strut-less.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was so bad at 2-4 limit holdem but the drinks were free and it was honestly hard to lose all that much money.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 1991 if you wanted a wagon hatch that opened luxuriously high you had to pay the big bucks.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another softball parking lot Lucid, this one with an expensive looking cracked windshield. Does this count as a #bustedride

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I preordered a (re)pebble round watch as a birthday present to myself in March. It might end up being a Christmas present.

static.klipy.com

Waiting

ALT: Waiting

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now that I think about it anyone who sees my car parked in my driveway can cleverly deduce where I live and SWAT me. Thats why I park sever miles away cycle to a second location, ditch the bike and walk home in disguise every day.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t waste any time thinking about AI “apocalypse” scenarios. I do think making rich people functionally immune from white collar crime and then encouraging them to build the world’s most powerful white collar crime machines will be regarded as a mistake.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thats what the M3 has going for it, you won’t need a team of fabricators to keep it on the road.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is pretty close to an ideal classic for my taste. I wonder what part availability is like. I’m guessing not great.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The geniuses at Starbucks desperately trying to brainstorm something even cheaper then ice. You got to hand it to them.

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Dan @oldvolvos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here is my car and plate to even things up.

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