If you’re not seeing this article, please consider becoming an Autopian member. It’s the best car community on the web!
If you’re not seeing this article, please consider becoming an Autopian member. It’s the best car community on the web!
Follow us on:
This brings to mind the Torch hairgate incident of 2019. (Which, in my opinion, was one of the best clapbacks of all time.)
One thing I’m always conscious of is my breathing on video. This was after I could hear my self breathing in a little video I made of my dog in the snow lol Now when I make and short video clip I sometimes hold my breath lol
Or keep the microphone away from your mouth
yeah that too
Coming soon, the new fitness routine from Galpin!
Heavily camouflaged vehicles cruise the steepest streets in your city, trailed by auto journalists looking for a scoop, and crowds of workout enthusiasts who signed up for the “Mighty Maverick“ training plan (just $49 a month!)
the internet allows too many people to be insufferable.
when I first watched the video, and immediately understood that it was obvious you had to be running a mini obstacle course to get the footage and shots you were getting.
Eh, the internet isn’t to blame for people being insufferable, it just exposes how many insufferable morons there are in this world. I’m fairly certain the insufferables have been around long before Al Gore “invented” the internet.
Personally, I try to be quite sufferable.
to be clearer, the internet allows too many people to be insufferable at a greater reach.
yes, people have always been like that, but now more people end up exposed to them.
We need a license to drive a car but any moron can have a podcast. That ain’t right
To be fair, the 500ft of a school one is spot on. I too am an engineer but my wife yells at me if I try to leave the house looking like a creeper.
Sorry David for throwing shade on your wife but she’s in dereliction of duty.
I can easily ride 30-40 miles on a recumbent trike in summer, but climbing 2 flights of stairs in my office building has me looking for the AED and an oxygen tank. I don’t know if I’m in shape or not because my data points don’t help.
I have found there is surprisingly little overlap between biking muscles and running/hiking muscles. You’d think at least your cardiovascular fitness would carry over, but no.
However bar stool muscles and couch muscles line up pretty good. As long as the bar stool is not one of those tall ones
Somewhere a couple of Ford engineers are reading this, giggling like idiots, and plotting the next appearance of the prototype that makes sure David has to hike across the desert or up a mountain.
Yes but they probably stopped giggling when that Ford had 23 recalls at the end of the day
I remember visiting the Toluca, IL “Jumbos” to do some railfanning on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. They’re big mounds of…some kind of coal waste or something from the railroad, and they’ve been capped with topsoil and grass and made into a park so you can climb them. I did. Lugging a camera and a tripod.
Not only did I see no trains but I was so shaky after getting back down I could barely operate my car’s clutch. A bit of panting after climbing stairs is understandable.
Ok, so no more host gift cookies at the Troy Walmart meets. Next time I’ll get you broccoli.
David, that ‘shopped tongue is absolutely …disgusting. I quickly scrolled past it.
Whether you want to or not, you’ll get in better shape once (not his real name) starts to walk….
I agree. Jason made it…
When dealing with geniuses you have to take the good with the bad For every canned ham strapped to a bumper you also get humans with dog tongues. What’s the opposite of anthropomorphism?
I completely agree.
Msihpromoporhtna
Plot twist: it’s not photoshopped
Because Long Beach doesn’t have the “ocean breeze” everyone thinks of. Blame the Palos Verdes Peninsula.
Signed, someone who used to live off Broadway and Redondo
This time the rusty old bucket David was risking was his body and not a postal Jeep or an eBay bespoke WW2 Jeep.
Somehow, like all the others, it still keeps going
You can just make out my office in your shot from the Vincent Thomas bridge. And I know that bluff; that climb is no joke!
You really don’t need to defend yourself here.
Seconded. 🙂
You were on foot, chasing a car. Panting should be expected in those circumstances.
Not to out of shape. Being from around Pittsburgh I know staircases. You did a phenomenal job and I think you’re in better shape than you were pre-family. I either hate the mini-bed useless or if the vinyl is hiding more space I love it
Walking the ‘Burgh is no joke.
You’re not out of shape, you’re rusty. I see it on the tip of your tongue.
The salt causes it to rust out first.
I’m in, I dunno, average shape? Which probably means I’m out of shape, whatever.
I used to be able to handle heat without an issue, I would even wear jeans in the summer living in Texas sometimes (like a psycho).
But what I didn’t know (and people should know, because doctors don’t tell you), is that once you go on an SSRI, your heat tolerance gets WAY worse. So…for all my Lexipro (or other SSRI) pals out there.. it’s not your imagination.
But.. alas… the benefits outweigh the alternative.
I was reluctantly on one for a very brief period, but it felt like they depressed my body instead of my mind and I dropped them. Luckily, I didn’t have to discover that my naturally poor heat tolerance would somehow get worse. I want to move to Central America to help sloths, but I don’t think I’ll be able to acclimate to the humidity.
Shit, maybe that’s what this is. I die in the heat, and I mean that pretty close to literally.
Last year I found myself winded after doing almost nothing, so I decided to do something about it. I can tell you it’s easier to maintain fitness than it is to recover it. I started exercising 4 times a week in November. I could barely maintain 2.5 to 3 mph on the treadmill for a half hour and I was exhausted when finished. Now I’m up to 5.8 mph and exercising 5 to 6 times per week and it’s just part of my day. I’ve lost 25 pounds and have another 35 to 40 to go, but I feel so much better. Okay, done with bragging.
Those stairs look challenging.
Also, you might want to get your tongue checked out by a doctor. That black part on the end looks suspect.
He was sharing a grape Popsicle with the dog.
That context helps. I thought maybe it was gangrenous.
Okay that stinger at the end was good. Well played, well played.
Round is a shape.
Also, you’re not alone. No judgment here.
I’m an out of shape shifter, so at least you’re not.
I am in a shape 😐
so what is the point of the test mule driving around a parking lot at the beach? at least put a surf board in the back.
I think Ford was intentionally allowing interested parties/car bloggers/etc… to get some footage. I saw videos of it on Youtube from at least a couple different channels including I think Tailioserve EV (not sure if I spelled that right). Management/marketing decided a few well-placed leaks would be in order to whet appetites/gauge potential response and enough folks got the message to put it all over car sites and channels.
I still think the greenhouse looks surprisingly low… almost chopped. Not that the folks who will buy this routinely wear Stetsons of course.
that was my thought as well. this was a staged ‘leak’
There’s a video out there somewhere of me parking a camouflaged Lotus Emira prototype at a beach. I was doing mileage accumulation and wanted to get some chips/fries. If someone gives you the keys to a car and says “do 500 miles or normal road driving this weekend” you’re going to end up at a beach at some point, if you’re in the UK.
Some kids videoed me, then asked if it was ok, which was the wrong way round but way more polite than normal.
The furthest place from the sea in the UK is in Derbyshire, and is a whopping 70 miles from the coast.
I keep meaning to go there one day.
Disregard the naysayers. Sports are for hippies and communists.
I’m also out of shape.