Still find the whole narrative around Tiger a weird indication of how whack and puritan our society is becoming. That whole documentary was like, ‘Tiger, the sad tragic story, his great demise.’ I mean – he’s only the greatest golfer possibly in the history of the sport, an unbelievable success story (and in the face…

24 mpg highway is, uh, impressively bad. That’s the same as an Aston Vantage. A 488 gets all of 22 mpg highway, with a lot more power. Hell, an SRT Hellcat, the veritable paragon of inefficiency, scrapes out 21 mpg. They couldn’t pull off a little better?

To, uh, who?

Ah, the VANOS stutter. Third gear sucked like nothing else. There’s a whole cottage industry specialized in repairing that now.

Of course I see a difference, but the notion of that valuation without building a production vehicle, when all of the legacy manufacturers are investing beaucoup bucks into the EV space...it’s a tough sell for me. Maybe if it were five years earlier and GM, VW, etc. hadn’t committed any investment to EV development,…

Perpetually annoys me that the completely vaporware, nothing companies on Wall Street like Lucid, Nikola, etc. take up all the air in the EV sphere and then knock down legitimate companies on their way. I’ll do some free consulting for these hedge funds: those companies are never, ever going to make it. Workhorse, on…

Bet you all the money in my wallet (not a lot, but that’s my problem) that he doesn’t get a say in posting the slideshow format, and that it’s pretty much short straws of seniority when it comes to who does the weekly quota of slideshow articles. Can’t begrudge him.

This is an underrated point. I guess the only question you’d have to add is whether or not readily available air travel increases demand so much that there’s a net increase in fuel used; i.e., if it weren’t for the ease of sending an employee cross-country for a lot of high end firms, they simply wouldn’t do that. But…

I appreciate your comment, but not really sure why you brought ‘blues lives matter’ into this conversation. Everybody on earth knows ‘blues lives matter’ is bullshit, and all the proof of that came on 1/6. That is not a good analogy to this situation and I resent that you dragged my comment into that.

What this does prompt is an interesting conversation about what it means to name something after a people, place, or entity in an non-offensive (or even laudatory) way as opposed to an offensive way. ‘Redskins’ is, point blank, a slur. There’s a reason it goes away. This is an interesting new sort of gray area. As far…

Dunno, I’ve heard of people cracking windshields while they were replacing wipers (badly) and having the thing snap back. Why couldn’t that happen during a storm? 

I dated a girl in college whose rich, scary father had a Z8. He made noises about letting me drive it at one point, but we split up before that could happen. Looking back, breaking up was clearly a financial catastrophe for my life direction, but worst of all was never getting to drive the Z8...

The glory days of Jalopnik. 

And nor should it be, but I’d have put the pressure on the current teams to think long and hard about their current racial demographics, rather than starting a consciously segregated team. But so be it.

Wait, they formed an entirely separate all-black team? Whose backwards idea of progress was that? How about putting all of these talented people to work on existing teams rather than segregating the field?

Thank you. This is my vacation website!

Sure, they all run to a degree on infrastructure, but Trump *really* ran on it. There was that whole $1 trillion pledge during the campaign, the bridges talk, the roads, the whole ‘I’m a developer, I know how to build’ argument. During the campaign Hillary had committed $300b to infrastructure, and Trump said that…

You’re not wrong, but he’s all the more disappointing because he specifically ran on the promise of infrastructure. That was one of the few things I could get behind, and in that sense he has failed uniquely, since you never saw, say, HW running a campaign based on an infrastructure pledge. Democrats would do well to…

Ha, I know, the sheer laziness of that mystifies me. The whole point is protecting your paint, and yet people leave this (usually extremely dirty) heavy rubber mat flapping and bashing against their bumper while they’re driving? Not to mention that all the companies make a specific point that the product shouldn’t be…

Just to note, on the street parking front – I’m going to jinx myself on this and end up with a baseball bat through the window, but – there are ways to avoid that sort of thing. I street park my E46 in NYC and have one of those goofy rubber bumper blockers at the back that tucks into the trunk when I leave, and a…