I hope K5 works out for them. It’s a great, underrated car unless you want a sometimes race car. It’s a car for 5 over, not 20 over. But those things are comfortable. I’d rather get picked up in an Optima than a BMW 3 series or Mercedes C class.

The Optimas I’ve been in with Uber and Lyft, had HVAC controls in the…

They’re bad names on BMW’s as well. People remember names, not alphanumerics. Case in point, my mom remembers that I’ve owned a Miata and a Corvette, but can’t remember the models of my BMW (330xi), Audi (A4) and Subaru (WRX).

the thing about that strategy is that it isn’t even about making memorable cars. It’s about selling the brand as a whole. That’s why the styling of all BMWs are basically identical, you’re just buying different lengths/doors of a kidney-grille car.

Not sure I entirely agree. The reason some cars are memorable with a numbers/letters naming convention is because they’re memorable cars (240z, 3000gt, M1, etc.). The same is true for actual words for names (Bel Air, Mustang, Pantera). Using your BMW example, most people remember the 2002, 635Csi, M3, etc. because…

I see what you did there!

Unfortunately, the biggest reason the drive-ins died out is because they can’t generate enough revenue to compete with developers who could do something else with that same real estate.

There’s an idea.

Or, wait until it comes out, sign up for the 7-day free trial, and binge the hell out of anything worthy (including this) until trial runs out.

The conversation between host and guest was usually decent, occasionally quite good, but it was the cars that were truly transcendent.

It is all on the grade of steel used

They’re good though when shit quality is good enough for your needs. Sometimes it is.

Craftsman is essentially a store brand for Lowe’s now. I think Kobalt quality has gone down and they bought Craftsman to reinvigorate that segment. The solidly mid-tier range which is good enough for any weekend DIYer.

1. If it spins, wear safety goggles or face shield.

Well, it appears they went cheap on maintaining the tooling, not the material. So, that’s how. 

Ace Hardware owns the Craftsman tool line now.

Love the cars, hate the company. Stock price inflated past the realm of even the most optimistic outlook, lack of union representation for their workers (and active union-busting), an eccentric billionaire owner/CEO who is spread thinner than his hair pre-follicle transplant, twitter tirades, fragmented corporate…

6th gen Camaro and also the LFA were worse I believe.

The point of a union is not to make a company rich. The point of the union is to fairly compensate labor.

Considering the constant evolution of tech (battery + “traditional”), and decreasing costs that go with it plus how tech-heavy their cars are, I’m willing to bet that it pays off long-term. There are more Teslas in my neighborhood than any other single brand, except possibly Toyota if you sum up the Tacos and Tundras.

This is the best looking new toyota I’ve seen come out in probably 5 years. I’m glad it didn’t follow the Prius terminator-mandible look, this might actually be called handsome at some point.