Don’t ever anthropomorphize a car. It makes them cranky.

Lamborghini will be true to ICE cars, until their ICE cars are slugs in comparison to the 4 independent hub motor, 2000 horsepower electric exotics with 500 kWh batteries that weigh less than a full tank of gas.

Electric motors are vastly superior to ICE engines in every single way, except for sound (which is…

4th Gear: look at the last 4 recessions. Every one of them was preceded by a massive increase in fuel prices for cars and planes.

This is typically an indication that large amounts of money are moving from equities to oil. So are massive increases in home values that go way beyond inflation.

If the Fed talks about…

I thought the Genesis was supposed to be the halo car. Also, the N sounds fun, and will make a nice replacement for the Ford Focus ST, since Ford apparently will stop making cars like that forever in a few years.

The back end of a Cruze is really nice for a hatchback. They should graft that.

An ATS hot hatch would get my attention.

As noted in another article, the crash would have occurred whether a human was at the wheel or autonomous.

The laws of physics make a “zero traffic death” goal unrealistic, to say the least.

What we have is a situation where our minimum expectation should be, “At worst the accident would have happened even if the most…

In the 80s, I got out of my car after driving from LA to Mammoth, and discovered a gas pump handle and part of a hose, still in the tank filler on the right side of my 82 Celica.

Autonomous cars will not be equal to human driven cars, until the robot drivers can emit a constant narrative of obscenity laced heckling of other drivers and their skills in heavy commuter traffic.

If you’re not flying first class now, you couldn’t afford “coach” back then.

I like the center console. And a motor per wheel is how all non-economy electric cars will be made. It makes sense in every way. With that set up, you can run the right and left wheels in opposite directions to make nearly impossible parallel parking possible. And traction control that is impossible in any other…

Even as a recent ex-Californian, I resent California being associated with Pittsburgh or Florida. There is institutionalized dumb in that city and state. I think California does its best to discourage institutionalized dumb. Which is why they have so many state colleges and universities.

But I think you might need to…

Jesus fuck. This dude is the Wreck It Ralph of politics. Except for the hands.

Hey, midterm elections are only a few months away.

Seems disappointing. With the same horsepower as a Chevy Bolt, it goes 0-62 in 9.3 seconds, vs the Bolt’s 0-60 in 6.5 seconds. I realize there’s a 2 mph difference, but not 2.8 seconds worth.

Also, I live in sometimes snowy Washington, and want an AWD compact SUV that goes 0-60 in less than 6.5 seconds. Having driven a…

That exact description of weapon I believe is banned by international treaty. Also, since warheads are armored against re-entry heat, the explosion would still have to be pretty close to the warhead. With thin or no atmosphere, the energy would dissipate rapidly. Same as the problem of using a grenade approach to…

Harley sells new bikes to middle aged people. And they have since I can remember. The old crop of middle aged people gets old, and a new crop of middle aged people discover them.

But for Harley, it always comes in waves. There’s a boom-bust cycle which has a lot of people who bought Harleys selling them as they age…

I’ve got 68,000 on mine. It’s 18 years old. I’ve had it since new. My wife has a 2012 Road King she put 32,000 miles on. After losing her old Softail in a high speed 7 vehicle crash at night on I-10 in West LA. And that bike had 65,000 miles that she put on it.

Most of those ads with low miles are dealers. Those…

Ford has needed a Fusion ST for years. Although a Focus Electric ST would be amusing too.

Living in a part of the Puget Sound where we get maybe three days of snow a year, makes it really hard to justify winter tires. Even if I go up to the mountains to snowboard a few days a year. Kind of frustrating, because it’s impossible to justify the cost of winter tires and wheels, and taking up storage space with…

“Destroyed”implies “unrepairable.” Which is not the case with the McLaren. The repair is expensive, but not a huge proportion of the cost of the car.