I was in a Mercedes Uber last night with mood lighting in the interior. It was cute for exactly five seconds, then irredeemably sad.

Shades of the Maserati Boomerang.

Yup, but I’d go older.

I’m at the point where I care nothing for a car with over 280 HP. That’s plenty for all kinds of real world driving. When I want to hoon around, I do it on my motorcikles which are way cheaper and more thrilling than any performance cage, err, car.

I turned down a Saturn wagon once for its sloppy and reluctant throttle.

Pizza will send out, for YOU!

What you do is attach a big blast shield and shock absorber to the back of your craft, and then explode nukes behind it. Seriously. The US called it Project Orion.

Not VTs? Van Tourismos?

AirV Force 1!

To compare apples to intestines, the average age of Amtrak passenger train cars is 19.4 years.

Please tell me more about NON plug in fully electric vehicles. Fuel Cells?

If nothing else, it has a good shot at getting cast as BumbleBee in Transformers 19.

I’ve had two EVs, but I still see a use case for ICE, as when I have my minivan loaded up with six passengers, camping equipment, and a rooftop cargo bag. The range hit of that to an EV would be too much. Which is why I’m looking at the Pacifica Hybrid as my next purchase. 30 miles of EV range for 90% of my trips,…

(In reality we’re just batteries for The Machines.)

80s SuperBike racers were the best, with rubber frames, dodgy tires, and too much horsepower. Today’s bikes are a little too civilized.

The stock tires let it down though, the rubber can’t keep up with the motor.

Just ending my three year lease on a Spark EV. After tax rebates and gas savings, it was practically free to own. Left my plenty of money to rent something cool on Turo whenever I wanted (M5, Wrangler, etc).

#activeaero