Yeahhhhh - I make six figures and I live in Van Nuys :(

Only a couple of bad years, a few thousand dollars, and some giant scorpions away from this. Will you still be scoffing when they get the plague serum to Boston?!?

I’ve thought that a National standard EV commuter car would be a good idea. One licensable design that any company can choose to build, only updated every five years, comes with waived registration, waived sales tax, and prime-rate loan. Make it easy and cheap for every family to have a one or two-seat commuter…

And when you have to race to the store for booze/ice, or to the hospital for your snake/bear bite, you have to strike your tent rather than just hopping in the car and going.

I’m sure the Wrangler didn’t beat out the hay-wagon its first year, either. ;)

Ya know, humanity’s greatest skill is supposed to be adaptability. Rules need to be adapted or suspended when they are causing bigger problems than they solve.

Murderkitty looks like she got a tattoo of Bill the Cat’s catchphrase.

Yeah, Musk said Tesla’s whole goal was to show that it could be done.

Yup, I smirk from my Bolt at the folks driving their twice as expensive claptrap Teslas, while the money I saved rides up in the stock market.

Yeah, that interior isn’t going in a $30k Chevy.

This seems to most presage the VehiCross, from that other weird little car company.

Drug dogs are as accurate as polygraphs. Which is...not.  And are used to instigate all sorts of malfeasance.

One and Done.

Bold Styling

A Chrysler that re-did the 300 letter-series cars ought to work, as it does for Tesla. Make one good platform and iterate on it.

I just saw a well kept one the other day, and thought to myself that it was going to be a semi-iconic vehicle in another 10 years when people are making nostalgic/ironic “Aughties” movies.

You can see the movie, and a restored New Moon trailer, at Modernism Week in Palm Springs next year.

Absolutely. My KLR650 exists for backcountry camping, but it made a great narrow, curb-hopping city bike too.

Unlike many an EV startup, Rivian seems like a top notch outfit. They brutalized their prototypes in South America, and the one I sat in at Autopia had top of the line fit and finish. No guarantees, but I’d make a bet on one if I was in that market.