Hey, Ford has a 3-cylinder and does sporty stuff nowadays.

There is no way that is real*, but if it is, I'll go ahead and sign up for whatever indentured servitude program they have to buy one of these.

Holy shit, I've eaten* at that Gyro King. Terrific food, but damn.

I actually kind of like this. Killing two birds with one stone for Ford, and critically one of the birds is selling a car. If they market this right, it should do well with youngens such as myself.

The Chase and Gordon not winning what would've been his 5th title because of it (and lots of other issues with NASCAR) is what made me angrily abandon NASCAR as a fan. The 2004 season was the last I watched entirely, then I watched sporadically until 2007 when I left for good after their Car of Tomorrow was a slow…

Yamaha has a successful motors division, and that was spun off back in the 1950s. I guess you could compare the two, but you're going back a pretty long time, and Yamaha had like 50 years of musical instruments and audio stuff before going into motors and stuff.

Making prototypes is not mass-producing cars. Part of the difficulty in me believing Apple will straight up do a car is the turnaround time from "let's hire engineers" to "mass-produce it!" that is suggested. Even Tesla took about 10 years to go from start to Model S. Also, mass-producing a car is wildly different…

Is this that thing where he punched his mother? Or was that found to not be real?

Manufacturing cars and manufacturing iPhones are not the same. Not remotely the same.

Who said you can't make a handheld device with music on it?

Not too big to imagine, but the 2020 deadline seems waaaaaaaaaaay too quick for a ground-up car. Also, Apple has a business where it prints money, one that doesn't involve the complexity of car design and building.

Tesla was founded in 2003, produced the Roadster (kind of a Lotus car in a way) in 2008, then the Model S in 2012. So...9 years if you do a ground-up own designed car. Apple has more money than God, so you can accelerate that a bit, but still, crazyballs.

Cars have a lot more regulations to deal with, specifically safety. There's also all the CAR things like suspension, handling, steering, interiors, again safety, heating and cooling to deal with. Cars are vastly complicated things, and going from making phones and computers to cars is an insane leap. I know they have…

I actually wouldn't mind an Apple TV about now. They can't possibly make it worse than all the other "Smart" TVs being sold right now. Can't find a damn normal 4K TV.

I call bullshit. Going from electronics to cars is a gigantic leap. I'm guessing they're just developing the infotainment software and 3D mapping.

So IndyCar totally missed the lesson F1 learned with all the flaps and winglets of the mid-2000s. Gobs of downforce and finely tuned airflow made passing impossible because all the turbulent air leaving the winglets and flaps of the leading car destroyed the delicate aero on the following car.

I think they surrendered to "our air quality is shit and our city is in gridlock traffic" there, not "ecomentalists."

Vox Media's political site has been a steaming pile of shit since they launched. They had success with SB Nation (good) and The Verge (tends to be good, but is run by smug ASSHOLES), and went all in with Vox. Since day one it's been sloppily written, and really no different from the fake 50/50, but ultimately…

Holy shit.

IndyCar's failure to get races at COTA, Road America, and the Glen is annoying. Would also like to see Mont Tremblant and Montreal on the schedule, but what can you do.