The notion of any actual transit project being scrapped to subsidize Elon’s slower-than-highway-speed Model-X-on-wheels amusement park experience seems like a travesty. They’re welcome to build a few of these in Siberia, but this is not a working technology. And when it becomes a working technology, Elon will have…

Nice Price or Malarkey.

Such a pleasure reading Ken’s articles with such masterful photography. Always a highlight.

Just what I was posting about. At least out East, I’d say the majority of film trucks are still cabovers, some of them genuinely old Peterbilts no less.

Anybody else watch the videos FSG Speed Shop posts on YouTube of his cabover (‘Orwell’) in regular owner-operator service? I’m not really one for YouTube streams, but that’s one channel I can get behind.

Well, I find articles like this so badly written that they’re ultimately self-defeating and turn off commenters who would normally agree on most points. For instance, I was a big fan of Sorry We Missed You, drove a work Sprinter for some time at a gig job, and I make a pointed effort to avoid Amazon, so I’m pretty…

Yeah, it was bad. But that story didn’t actually have any serious comparison to the deleterious effects of synthetic leathers, the inability to dispose of them, and the shorter lifespan of their products that necessitates faster replacement and greater waste. All of this to say: it is complicated. It isn’t an easy…

Gotcha, that’s the same thing I’ve been hearing from some friends also in the industry. It’s a little counterintuitive on first gasp, but it makes sense to me, especially given the long history of leather goods – if something else natural worked better, we’d probably have used it, and synthetic always has challenges…

This headline is not at all obvious to me.

Cloth is apples to oranges. Of course cloth doesn’t wear the same way. The question is synthetic leather vs. real leather.

Sure, although I’ve known a few Hawaiians in my time who were completely convinced that all of us on the ‘mainland’ were crazy for living where we do... Definitely some boring, lousy spots there, but all things being equal I’d probably take it over a lot of places in the country.

Hawaii always tops off these lists of costs, living expenses, insurance fees, etc. Everything is more expensive when the supply chain requires shipment. But then again – you’re in Hawaii! Something tells me I’d suck it up being a car owner in Hawaii rather than a car owner in Indiana, and no offense to the fine people…

You should get yourself some ethanol-free gas! Did wonders for my car on a similarly low-use / winter storage schedule...

Not that I have the answer to this, but to what degree do you think it was an issue with passing US safety regulations rather than just an issue of ballsiness? Some of the original Smarts were basically tin foil on wheels (not that I didn’t get a kick out of them, but...). Seems reasonable to believe that the first…

Another tough moment when the ‘KILL ALL WHITS’ graffiti turned up. The director Whit Stillman said something like, ‘I always knew this day would come.’

This was one of the clearest plants I’ve ever seen. Fisher-Price make-a-bomb duct tape set, with the BLM sign thrown on there as the cherry on top. Must have given the bomb squad a good laugh. Points for use of the Tesla though – I like the shift to homegrown bourgeois terrorism. The ‘Whole Foods’ edition of the…

Getting real sick of these articles where nobody even pretends to care about cars on a car blog. I get it, I think this is a gaudy, wasteful, stupid product. I wouldn’t buy one in a thousand years, and I couldn’t afford one in a million years. But there’s still a degree of obvious craftsmanship and mechanical…

Wouldn’t every car aficionado the world over date the Porsche 911 to the 1960s? The Turbo model was the 70s innovation.

Hoping this was a typo. 6 and 4 are next to 7 and 5 on the keyboard. Otherwise, this is, uh, Google-able. 

I agree with you about the ploy of the renaming, but with all due respect, that wasn’t really the point of my comment. The thrust of the article was about the cynicism of releasing a car that wealthy people will buy. Well, I hate to break it to this site, but pretty much every truly beautiful car in the past…