Exactly, the design was enough to sell these, there’s nothing else out there like it but there would be within a few years of release because people would buy it and other manufacturers would follow.

Sometimes I think they ought to bring back ass kickings. Quick immediate punishment for shit like this would deter it. Unfortunately it would also spiral out of control quickly and be regrettable.

If an EV company ever starts selling their skateboards to other companies there might be an influx of different designs and manufacturers. If range gets good enough that aero is less of a concern then the bean era of car design may end and cool new stuff might come along.  I’d rather see that than consolidation but it…

I may be alone in this but I bought a reliable gas powered car (Lexus) several years ago to hold me over until EV’s became more refined, affordable, and available in the secondary market. I’d also do a PHEV but there’s not a lot of them I like. I love my ICE vehicle but it’s like every 2 years there’s an oil crisis…

“A friend” used to work there sometimes, and one of the producers told them that they went to shoot a place and they had confederate flags up and they were told to take them down or they wouldn’t shoot there. I would bet they just missed it this time, they actively don’t want that kind of thing.

Mental illness is a common thread in several of these incidents. To live in a free society means to tolerate some amount of mental illness which could easily enough be confused with a difference of opinion, but it goes way too far. In New York and LA there are absolute crazies walking and living on the streets. …

Maybe that’s the point of all this.  Get the R’s on board.  They buy more cars than the D’s that live in the city and want bicycles now anyway.

In lower Manhattan 37mph is very fast to drive, you’re not going to go much faster than that in a lot of places without hitting people or enough stuff that you can’t run anymore.  Also it sucks and don’t ever drive there if you don’t have to.  

The thing about when Supercars borrow parts is it’s usually done well. I really like the Noble especially, it never occurred to me that it borrowed taillights. What’s ironic is that even though there’s fewer of these supercars driving around, they’ll be kept in good shape unless crashed and kept around as classics,…

Why do people have such a boner about getting trains in the first place? Is it a lot cheaper fare than planes? Planes can take you from LA to SF today and probably faster than a train could go, and they don’t need to build a straight line through a whole long state to do it. Plus they’re versatile, you can fly them…

Without the proper downforce provided by that spoiler, the featherweight Durango may fly right off the track. It’d be the ‘55 LeMans all over again

“ you don’t like cyclists, that’s fine. You’re allowed to have your opinion. Advocate for ///protected bike lanes/// so cars and bikes don’t have to interact as frequently.”

Whenever you have a nice new car people seem to want to wreck into it, and sometimes they apparently successfully do. Probably will turn out it has something to do with quantum physics, or that people are just idiots. One or the other.

If Tesla builds nearly automated factories, and minimizes number of parts used, and gets its supply chain straight, then how cheap would a Tesla have to be to get people to look the other way on Elon acting crazy?

This is the most correct comment I have ever seen. The only people who want tiny city cars are *some* city people. Suburbanites, Exurbanites, and Rural people want big ass trucks, that’s why they buy F-150's, Ram’s, and Silverado’s. It’s foolish to try to force people into cars they don’t want in a free market…

BMW is in bad shape. They’re making ugly cars and they’re stubbornly sticking to bad ideas like subscriptions for what should be options, and again, ugly cars. Smells like it’s time for a management change.

Honda Elements are fun, get it fixed and keep rocking it

This is garbage. There’s a movement of “urbanists” who want to do away with cars entirely and make it impossible to get around. Very mass transit oriented, which is fine, only it also intends to make car travel as miserable as possible. They take their marching orders from Streetblog and support Vision Zero, which…

Clearly this man knows how to party. My New Years was boring due to Covid, I’d rather have crashed into a creek in the stripper pole limo 100%

This is one of those things that can be done well or be done poorly. Though I don’t think the world would be any worse off if it disappeared entirely.