Ha! And that oil war is with Russia and the US conspiring to keep the world’s largest oil reserve, Venezuela’s, off the market (which is why Venezuela will always be a mess, whether their government is capitalist or socialist or run by Hogwarts or visiting Aliens).

What’s the oil glut going to look like when there are…

The assumption that EV ownership is now related to fuel economy, is...anachronistic. Especially luxury EV ownership, which is one of those things that economically functions with reverse elasticity.

The experience of driving a Tesla, or I-Pace...is luxurious. Insistent, quiet acceleration without annoying gear…

I label this: reasonable.

I’m not going to read a lot into this. GM is doing what they have to do.

Ford has been avoiding what it has to do. They don’t want to destroy Trump, and the layoffs they needed to do would torpedo Trump’s re-election chances in the swing states.

And defeat of Trump, means every executive pays much more in taxes, with fewer loopholes. Maybe even Trump throttling restrictions of imports of…

This is a government which through deliberate incompetence, is allowing tens of thousands of people more to die, than had the pandemic been shut down with national action in January.

This is a government, which is trying to eliminate EPA rules that protect the air and the environment.

And at this time, with this…

I has a sad because I have a Focus ST. No check for me. I only get a car that keeps running without transmission problems. I’ve had the thing for 7 years and still have the original clutch.

Oh, you think there are tenets of capitalism?

I didn’t realize we were discussing religion.

Not a hot hatch. Same problem with a WRX. And I’ve decided, gasoline cars are out. Next car will be a “fun electric”, that isn’t on the market or announced yet. I keep cars for a decade or more and choose wisely, and I already look at ICE cars as feeling a little “old fashioned” after driving a fully optioned Model 3.…

Yeah, no. My FoST runs great, and I don’t need something not quite as...complete...to replace it.

Dark mode isn’t for regular use. Dark Mode is for when you’ve been up for 36 hours tracing faulty code that you hastily cobbled together to meet an arbitrary deadline, and you’re realizing that you’re just gilding a turd and need to burn the whole house to the ground to get working code for a dog and pony show 10…

You guys are going way out of your way to avoid the obvious: Subaru. Big dog, Outback or Legacy wagon. Medium or small dog, pre-2015 Impreza STi or WRX hatchback.

First thing new Subaru owners discover: other people’s dogs expect to just jump in your car when you go to the park. We don’t even have a dog, which dogs…

We live in fucking weird times.

Honestly, from a home viewer standpoint watching a video game race today is more exciting. More crashes, don’t have to feel guilty about someone dying or getting hurt.

Next we need to hook those cars up to real, remote controlled cars on the tracks.

I’m kind of guessing this is a problem, because Ford didn’t have a “Head of Ford Archives” back then. Not to put too fine a point on it, but essentially a librarian.

A field that is generally has been the butt of humor and disparaging career choice jokes.

I’m not a librarian. But I worked on a project where we really…

My neighborhood had an HOA when it was built. The residents decided it was unnecessary and disbanded it. We pitch in and maintain the signs and foliage to the entrance to our neighborhood.

We painted our house blue. People have RVs and boats in their driveways.

No one seems to care. The neighborhood is still considered…

Someone needs to introduce a hot hatch in America. Ford, Subaru and Mazda all abandoned theirs. I think VW has to market all to their lonesome. If you don’t want a VW, tough.

I will accept an electric one. Another area where it appears VW will have an exclusive.

I will have something like this when I get an electric car. But it will have the sounds of the Jetson mobile, or a jet, or maybe something inspired by this:

The glass on solar panels suggestion is genius. Of course it’s possible. They can do this with 3 dimensional laser etching in glass:

I’d say I’m surprised, but the very model of capitalism is to reward the big guy, and force the small guy out of business if they aren’t bought out. In economics, the technical term is “barriers to entry”.

Wall Street doesn’t want independent journalists. They don’t want ANY journalists if it is possible. Not real…

What is this primitive crap? Where’s the In-Wheel Motor?

Well yeah. Predicting attrition is hard. None of us, nor even the manufacturers, exactly know which models will be discontinued yet. Or when.

But manufacturers replace whole platforms, and wipe out models every few years now. When a new EV platform highly overlaps a gasoline one, the gasoline platforms days will be…