There’s the Maverick starting $2,400 more than Trax if you can find one. I can hardly believe Ford still hasn’t figured out Maverick production.

What Toyota didn’t do with BEV they did with Hydrogen fuel cells. 🍪

Toyota held off and decided to stick with hybrid models and slowed its rollout of battery-powered cars.

The golden retriever named Messi

I don’t feel sorry for the dumbass rube who trusted Tesla, and I put almost all of the blame on him. I think his “putting the trust in the machine to drive for him” was just a demonstrably irresponsible guy attempting to skirt responsibility.

A digital fart can for narcissists.

They said that if I need specific language about all external things that can damage a car, I may not be bright enough to own a car

Go ahead and email your normal carmaker and ask them what car wash damage their warranty covers.

“Cost is a massive factor, and there just isn’t a lot of choice below $35,000 for consumers at mainstream price points,” Kim said.

Those Ioniq 5 lease deals are amazing. I’ve never leased a car but if I was in the market right now I’d be strongly inclined to lease for exactly that reason - battery and drivetrain tech is getting better and cheaper rapidly while more models coming to market each month.

Any quantity of this adds no value - subtracts value even - and is a complete waste of police budget, in my opinion.

art car-ish harlequin-ish mustang. i like it, picasso.

This is telling us the early-adopter era of EVs is pretty much over, and the next batch of consumers isn’t so sure about the tech

Among the IPA’s other findings were that while San Jose PD was authorized to have 1,173 sworn officers in 2023, there were only 912 officers authorized for full duty. The department is currently at 77.75% of staffing.

There’s nothing to distinguish. Car washes can damage cars and no manufacturer will cover damage from car washes. Not even Mazda.

The stupid are the most easily bored. Here’s a nice piece to lose your shit over from Mazda’s owners manual.

A forum post is the best you got?

My Miata and my wife’s Prius live outside in wind, rain, snow, sleet, sun, clouds, heat, humidity, bugs, dogs, cats, possums, hobos, the works. They get washed approximately “whenever I feel like it.”

You and yer bois are building straw men to knock down.