So Ford+ is about charging you $14.95 a month for things you used to get for free? :p Or would it be more about actually cutting out the middleman for a subscription model?

The only way that subscriptions are okay is when the functionality actually requires ongoing maintenance, say, for advanced cruise mapping. Everything else, yeah, no.

The problem with PHEVs is that unless you explicitly incentivize plugging in as much as possible, no one will do it because it’s not necessary.

I’ll take a screw cover over a clip any day of the week. Normies have decided that rusty exposed fasteners are bad, and bean counters have decided that they can 1) pay for higher grade fasteners that do the job AND look good AND won’t rust during the warranty period, 2) hide the screw heads with a plastic cover, or 3)…

They also say “PLASTIC BOTTLE” for the benefit of K-12 administrators who have deemed glass bottles verboten on campus, and would otherwise assume Snapple bottles are glass.

THIS is the correct answer.

.... Except that turbaned Sikh security is basically its own stereotype in former British colonies not the United States.

Is there any other type of women from Orinda?

How do you know my life so well?

SUVs typically do not get truck series plates when purchased new in CA, either.

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Jason, your issue is that you pulled the 2nd-gen Vibe interior in the side to side comparison, and that’s why the Voltz looks *more* like the 1st-gen Matrix interior you have.

Nice MB-Tex suit? Vegan Leather?

So that means most normies are going to get streaming/app-based unlicensed cabs/car rentals because ownership is so 1990, some normies might buy music on AAC/FLAC/ own an EV, and only serious nerds who prefer analog will own vinyl/ICE.

The first manufacturer to launch a full-size mass market electric CUV in the USA will clean Tesla’s clock. I’ve also done the same all-electric test drive thing, and as much as we all like to rag on others for Americans driving hilariously large cars, those compact electric CUVs are just slightly too small for 5…

This is the same biofuels white whale that we’ve all been chasing since the 1970s. Except this time they’re convinced that carbon capture and reformation can be entirely powered by renewables?

Counterpoint: what if they plopped a fiberglass body in the shape of an EcoSport on the WRC Fiesta?

On the other hand, if you want to get historical with it, there’s always the 1992 “C A M R Y”. It’s just extremely dumb in this case because basically everyone knows what the L looks like, and there’s some sort of mid market prestige to it already. Maybe makes sense if they were thinking about expanding in Europe or…

This is way more egregious than a Volvo. Historically, Volvo has never applied its logo to the rear, preferring its name in letters. Stretching that across the rear in the same font works for it.

I understand the concerns, but unless we have a wholesale revamp of the entire financial and political system, systemic change isn’t going to happen. Point by point below: