I think dogs watch those ads. Sometimes when we pull into a parking lot at a park, happy tail wagging dogs come up to my wife’s Outback. Also, sometimes when we’re leaving. We don’t have a dog ourselves. Sometimes owners are apologetic for their dog “bothering us”.

No but that could have just been simplifying in the cartoon process. Or to deliberately throw people off so he wouldn’t be advertising a particular car. But that rear is really damn close.

AMC Pacer with rectangular headlights.

I’ve had two third party extended warranties. They were worthless when it came to fixing a 3rd gear synchro, smog equipment and fuel pump.

Stick with the ones issued by the auto manufacturer. The Carmax one is exceptional, and part of that is that it’s associated with a brick and mortar concern that is in every state.…

It really all depends on whether key science fictional technologies actual become practical. Time travel, while trivially used in films to alter the past, could be used without the risk of causality violations if you take your starship back in time before you leave, so everything is closer together for your travels,…

Price is a temporary state at this time. When the price of batteries come down, they could take the Model S platform, stick a different body on it, cheaper seats, plastics and suspension, and make them available for fleet sales.

While they might be more expensive even then, they should also be much lower maintenance.…

Although the LAPD currently has some electric vehicles, there are legit things they can learn from a vehicle that can behave like a real cop car and has a decent range.

The LAPD is not the Highway Patrol. They rarely take a freeway except for a few miles to get to a different part of town. So it’s all city, in a city…

Nothing to validate it either. Which is the scientific method.

Mundanes. Borrowed from another subculture.

Any show with more Sabine will be fun.

If I were Facebook, I’d go whole hog on this and really suppress conservative media and memes, and help to get the Republicans out of the majority of both houses of Congress. They’d be completely within their “Citizen’s United” rights.

I don’t get the problem. Facebook is a private corporation. Excercising their God given right to corporate free speech. Not a public utility. I thought Republicans were opposed to interfering with private enterprise.

Subaru Outback. It’s a slightly taller, honest station wagon, comfortable with a lot of non-obvious practicality, and less blind spots than other CUVs. It’s also cheaper than most of the others.

Only problem with an Outback, is that they seem to attract friendly dogs that want a ride, and their embarrassed owners.…

I was talking to a new Volt owner at the post office parking lot. He does almost all city, no highway driving. He says with regen braking and Los Angeles hilly nature, he can get 75 miles before the gas engine kicks in. He said he charges his car once a week.

I wish they’d make a 300 hp “SS” version of the Volt. That’s…

And yet, with all its failed policies, California is one of the most prosperous states in the country per capita. Yet it’s the conservative states that are most dependent on the federal government.

We said goodbye to our lawn over a year ago, though we stopped watering long before that. We still have to water the xeriscape, but it doesn’t take a tenth of the water. We also have 4-55 gallon rain barrels that are full. If we stay in LA, we’ll get a much bigger tank and bury it, set up a pumping system and…

Well, no one is making an electric version of a car like the Focus ST or Volkswagon GTI. The Focus Electric is barely in the Corolla class, if that, in performance. Though it might be fun to soup it up with a better battery and much larger motor.

I think what we’re learning, is that it’s easy to make a boring electric…

There you go then. Business as usual, and the taxpayers are saying “Make it look better than the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man we currently have this time”.

It’s not like SpaceX is short on engineers, and whatver they come up with as a final product, will be created by engineers within the constraints of design. This is a…

Taxi services in Los Angeles have apps.

I see Buick SUVs around town. Their owners seem to like them. Not sure I’ve seen a Buick sedan of any kind.

Buick exists in the US, mainly because its existence in the US makes it more attractive to the larger base for Buicks, China.

GM would be better off eliminating the Buick brand, and offering luxury upgrade…