*sighs* Emergency rulings are not causes for hope. Let’s not start sucking Clarence Thomas’s dick yet.

People have been talking about immersive virtual reality for decades. It's going to happen. It's just a matter of time and which breakthrough technology will really make it take off. Zuckerberg is not wrong to try to get in on the ground floor of what's essentially the next internet. 

Gandalf to Saruman (played by Amazon): You give me a choice between ruled by you or by Sauron (played by Meta). I take neither. Have you a third?

We’ve come a long way from when my 1990 Mitsubishi Eclipse Turbo, a car that weighed something like 3,000 lbs, did 0-60 in 6.6 seconds.

Only if you have the traction control on.

This isn’t a Toyota gearbox. It’s a BMW gearbox. With a BMW part number. The whole car is BMW parts. 

While the prices are high, the customer service has been great. My recent purchase had some undocumented damage (minor, but I still called it out) when I took delivery and they started a warranty claim on the spot. Took the car in for the repair, and the body shop noticed some respray work had occurred at some point,…

There is talk that CVNA has been getting people into loans by taking some creative license on their paper work. I don’t know if that is true or not, just hearsay.

I don’t understand how Carvana or CarMax work (or if they do, in fact, work). I leased a Lexus 3 yrs ago with a sticker of $35k. I bought it at lease end to sell to CarMax for $32K, and they have it listed on their site for $36,9k. But a brand new car of that same model and trim is available at Lexus for $36,2k! My…

A lot of us don’t intuitively factor in inflation when we think about what a car should cost, because our “what car X should cost” thresholds were set a long time ago.

Oh yeah, I agree. The reality is that car companies should ignore internet commenters because it doesn’t result in actual sales. They’re the “I’ll buy used” crowd or “I actually bought a civic”...

You’re underestimating how expensive the engine development would have been. Toyota hasn’t made an inline 6 in two decades, and the 1JZ/2JZ was in a ton of different cars at the time it was in production (making the development cost justified). The 1UZ development alone was over a billion dollars in 80s/90s money -…

Toyota had a big hand in the engine development. The B58 largely exists because Toyota said the N55 was too unreliable to have a Toyota badge, so they made several significant engineering changes to it to create the B58. The chassis tuning is quite different as well. It is pretty ignorant to say that Toyota just took…

These will be sought after when the Supra is discontinued in 2 years.

One has to ask at what point Toyota’s decision to “save” costs on engine development is going to make this whole thing more expensive than if they’d designed the entire car themselves.

It’s because someone made a product to simulate a massaging seat that constantly moves the lumbar seat motors back and forth. I assume that was causing a lot of warranty claims from continuous use of the motors, so they want to stop that. 

They used to be called relay rides but had to change their name because of negative press. like my example. I had someone rent my car and get a DUI then i was on the hook for getting the car out and they did not pay for the days i did not have my car period and also refused to cover any damage from the accident. They…

I just wish it were easier to search for cars. I just want a list of all the cars within 20 miles of me on Turo. Period. I don’t give a shit if they’re not available until next month, or they’re only available on one day next week. For the right car, I will schedule around it. What I won’t do, is punch in 80,000…

Insurance (n)

It just seems to me like this kind of liability would make this situation completely uninsurable.