1St Gear: official wipe from documentation to PR reports doesn’t mean it’s gone. Many companies are just moving forward internally, with no changes to policy.  They know what’s right.

I keep asking this — if Tesla can claim to have FSD capabilities sufficient to operate driverless cabs (it’s a fake claim, I know), why wouldn’t those who paid....$15K?....for this service in their own Tesla get it first? Didn’t people pay a premium to get FSD, so why aren’t they getting it before the cabs do (the…

Pommes frites is really just short for pommes de terres frites. Somewhere along the way, people got tired of saying the whole thing and, as often happens with language, it got truncated. As is happening in English, it’s starting to truncate further, to just frites (fries).

Normally a 20 year old German car would be a ND from me, but at this price — for this kind of performance — I think the ask is just about worth the gamble. It’s still a close call, though, and I think for me it would come down to the vibe I got from the seller.

I always assumed they were called “French Fries” because “french cut” is just an anglicized slang for “julienne” (i.e. cut into thin strips), which is then fried.

Eh, that was a tongue in cheek sort of thing, really.  This is considerably more fucked up.

Anyone remember how we were going to rename french fries “freedom fries” because the French opposed the invasion of Iraq?

We live in the dumbest timeline

Europe’s taxing models for consumer vehicles would have saved us from the huge suv and truck onslaught.   Those vehicles would simply be unaffordable to own.  

They will cut all your earned benefits to the bone and send the money straight to their own companies. Trump did it last time with his hotels and golf courses. This time it will be much more direct and brazen. 

309k!!!!

The source article says Golden State, not sure why that got changed to Florida.

Killing the XTerra right when the whole world was getting super into off-road-adjacent SUVs is all you need to say to show Nissan’s management is incompetent.

I don’t know if such a thing is legal, but boy howdy it would be hilarious.

The Model 3 was the biggest disappointment in the Sunshine State, with deliveries dripping 36 percent over the course of 2024.

A candidate to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader has suggested a 100% tariff on Tesla.

Europeans know what happens when you get in bed with Nazis. Calfornians recognize the danger too.

2nd gear: The way this administration simply betrayed one of our greatest allies, I can’t imagine Tesla ever sells another car in Canada.

The only Indian built Jimmny sold in Japan is the 4 door, they have a 2 door kei version built in Japan.

I had the privilege of driving one of these in Costa Rica when this body style was released years ago. As someone who loves small vehicles and off road vehicles this is such a perfect solution.