This. These cars are rebuildable when they’re “current” and when they’re “historic”. Cars crash, they get fixed, they get put back into service.  Everything’s bespoke, then and now.  They’ll fabricate what they need today, just as they did back then.

Thank you! DT asked me for a top and after realizing a hand sketch or photo collage just wouldn’t get the base urgency, I realized I had to use the design language made just for stupid shit like this. The panic language of emergency signs.

Toyota has a really cool manufacturing process and ethos, in general. I toured the Toyota Tundra plant here in Texas after I got my last contract with them, and it was such an eye-opening experience. Their assembly line has this thing called an “Andon Cable” and it’s basically this long rope that stretches the entire…

Toyota literally wrote the book on how to do modern manufacturing. But Obviously they had read Ender’s Game at some point

Exactly. And the EV powertrain is perfect for a luxury car.

Exactly on point with the Toy aspect. A Scion Xb EV is not fun to drive. It’s practical to drive. But even today, such a vehicle wouldn’t be cheap, unless there are massive incentives like in the EU.

Three seasons of Drive to Survive have left me with the impression that he’s a very genuine and straightforward guy. If he has a fault it’s probably the lack of that intense, focused bloodlust that you see in Hamilton and Vettel and a lot of the other drivers. 

Dear Penthouse: It was a hot day in the summer. The mechanic’s blue shirt was unbuttoned an extra notch, showing glistening chest hair. His hands were the rough, strong hands of a working man as they shook mine and I looked into his grey eyes, steely as the tools he wielded.

No, man, this isn’t a piece shitting on the Richest Man In The World, this is a piece shitting upon some really awful UX decisions. Sad is not being able to deal with actual valid critiques of technology without feeling like it’s an attack on Elon Musk, who I suspect will weather this onslaught just fine.

Doesn’t seem too wild given it was a full strip, repair, recoat, and custom paint. I mean expensive for sure but given what was done, seems quasi reasonable.

Sam getting an endorsement deal would turn him into this guy:

I like this idea better. Just because the GIF is great.

Well this is the same company whose transmission shifter design literally killed someone.

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There was a time when I would cheerfully shit on the Kia Soul. Then I was t-boned by a lady driving an uninsured G-Wagon who blew through a stop sign while talking on her phone. My Saab survived the encounter, but the incident did nothing to improve the historic Swedish-German enmity.

Kia Souls are fucking great and if Americans weren’t insecure to the point of frantically committing suicide via autoerotic asphyxiation while furiously sobbing against the backdrop of “Proud To Be An American” played on endless repeat, they would be half the cars on the road. I’m prepared to die on this hill, fucking…

same in Utah in the canyons. I love my tundra, but the wifes forester is way better in the real bad storms.

Was going to say the same thing. If you put on some steel/aluminum bumpers, or even some painted ones, I’m on board. But as it is, it looks either incomplete or like both bumpers have been replaced on the cheap.

I disagree with the lower door plastic molding. I think it looks better with it on there... simply because the front and read bumpers wrap around and are so low. Without the molding on the doors the lines are broken up and it feels uneven or just off. Obviously this is just my take, and if you like it better without…

Sigh. I might be telling myself a fairytale too, but it lets me fall asleep to hope.