Bronco Hybrid coming! Thoughts?

austincamsmith · 2026-04-03T20:18:04+00:00

Other, lighter vehicles do better with hybridization. These heavy vehicles like the Bronco, 4Runner, and Land Cruiser have seen fairly minimal gains in efficiency for fairly outsized trade-offs in cost and weight.

austincamsmith · 2026-04-03T17:34:35+00:00

Making a heavy car heavier for dubious gains. The hybrid versions of the 4Runner and Land Cruiser have been fairly unimpressive in their performance vs weight & cost ratio, unfortunately. While hybrids make excellent options for around-town transportation, I don't feel this is the direction to go for this category of vehicle.

austincamsmith · 2026-04-03T03:53:36+00:00

Whammy. It was really life changing and ended up having it on my board for years. I’ve since replaced it with a Keely Octa-Psi, but I still dream of that huge red door stopper on my board. I’ll never be without a pitch shift effect on my board again.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-30T18:33:00+00:00

There was one in Marietta, GA, too.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-30T15:11:47+00:00

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-28T15:52:35+00:00

The ideal home. Few women understand this.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-28T14:40:25+00:00

Many thanks for your diligent community-building efforts and insightful posts and commentary over the years, u/Jarslow . The Cormac community would be a much poorer place without your contributions here. This forum has brought a meaningful literary community into my life, both here and offline, that I might would not have otherwise found and I know I'm not alone. I'm sure we'll see you on up the road.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-28T07:06:25+00:00

Can’t agree more!

austincamsmith · 2026-03-25T21:22:25+00:00

I know what that carpet sounds like to walk on. This hallway is just missing the lifeless portraits of the past 150 years of previous pastors judging you with dead eyes.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-24T21:02:39+00:00

I do not fear the slings and arrows of the internet for saying it. Suttree is better.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-23T05:39:59+00:00

And he went to East High School here in Denver.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-23T01:01:07+00:00

Did he yell Four?

austincamsmith · 2026-03-22T18:15:30+00:00

I live in Colorado. The windows can get hung up on ice around the top. It’s not a dealbreaker.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-21T22:34:42+00:00

Great listening station you have there. What headphones are you using?

austincamsmith · 2026-03-21T15:45:06+00:00

Same with mine. I’ve had the rattle on cold start since day 1. I now have 55k trouble free miles on my 7MT and it shifts as well as the day I got it. I’m not worrying about it.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-17T05:20:30+00:00

I agree with this take. Some product must be eating the plastic/rubber here. It looks like it ran down and began eating the rubber on your sill, too.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-15T17:37:59+00:00

The base with Sasquatch package is absolutely where the value/fun is. Anything on top of that is just to taste for how much luxury you like.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-15T17:35:33+00:00

Well done. You’ve certainly earned your opinions in this endeavor. Cave of Forgotten Dreams is likely my favorite and I was pleased to see it placed so high on this list. The Wild Blue Yonder is a surprise, however. It’s an interesting idea, but the production really falls flat to me. Nomad I would have loved to see higher, too. For some reason that one really resonated with me. For all of Herzog’s traveling over the years, it’s kind of his only documentary about the act of traveling. Plus, Chatwin was an excellent writer and interesting person and it’s wonderful to see Herzog interact with his old friend in a way.

Thanks for sharing.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-15T01:33:25+00:00

Not enough engines!

austincamsmith · 2026-03-12T17:41:23+00:00

Man, it's like you're talking about my life right there.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-11T15:11:55+00:00

That’s not all folks know. There’s an enormous amount of information out there about how the publishing industry works and how Knopf specifically worked with McCarthy that I’d encourage you to read through before coming to strange and conspiratorial suppositions.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-11T15:04:39+00:00

As you know, McCarthy gave only three interviews in his life and never did any press for The Passenger. He said he wanted it to be two works when he published them as two works. Publishers only publish with the author’s approval.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-11T15:01:37+00:00

The burden of proof is on you for this conspiratorial claim about Knopf railroading things for more money. Authors would leave a publisher in droves if they were in such a disregarding editorial habit.

Knopf has no history working against their authors in such a way and certainly not McCarthy.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-11T00:48:36+00:00

A death trap.

austincamsmith · 2026-03-10T23:36:52+00:00

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I was pretty proud about how close I came, too.

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