The way people talk you’d think it’s like Mad Max out on the roads with everyone, including soccer moms and the elderly, mashing the throttle the instant a light turns green. You’d think other drivers had nothing better to do but to block your every attempt to pass with their high horsepower cars.

This has nothing to do with predicting the future; in the long term the stock market ALWAYS goes up. Of course, the risk is higher if you’re investing in individual companies, but that’s why you invest in something like an ETF.

Making cars is hard. The difference here is that GM is a 110 year old company with a wide portfolio of models from which they can pull a platform to convert to electric. They didn’t have to start from the ground up and were able to focus on the drivetrain. And even then, they produced something that’s more economy …

Having originally lived under the Scion brand it was marketed as a sporty vehicle. Unfortunately, it was stuck with the same under-powered engine as the Corolla. I quite like how the iM looks, but it really is nothing more than a Corolla in hatchback form.

I wouldn’t touch a car with this engine for a good 5-10 years. This sounds like a reliability nightmare waiting to happen.

You seem intent on challenging others without having any data to back your argument. Have you found stats for fatalities per distance traveled? That’s probably the best way to compare Tesla’s safety record versus regular cars.

Makes sense... An autonomous car won’t be a hazard to anybody if it can’t even start.

Engineers have known about much of this for decades. The limitations have come from being able to manufacture these engines cheaply and efficiently while ensuring they’re reliable. There’s a lot more room for experimentation on race cars because they can rebuild the engine after every race, and in relative terms, cost…

This looks like an update to the iM, which is more or less derived from the Corolla overseas. That would explain why it looks so much better than the US-market Corolla. Hopefully it will come with more horsepower than the current models. I’d like to see more cheap, reliable, sporty cars that don’t that aren’t…

Every single time someone comes up with a new, unsafe and stupid mod defenders are quick to point out its legality. Just because laws haven’t caught up doesn’t make them legal. Typically regulations involve a set of conditions. The main reason certain things get specifically called out is because of those…

It’s funny... On first glance, I thought that frontal shot of the McLaren was a composite of multiple photos with the doors gradually open. It took a moment to realize those were the various contours and openings in the doors. They look fantastic, like an abstract sculpture... And I love the car in that color.

0-60 in 10-12 seconds is not uncommon in most of the world. It’s just that Americans have been spoiled. Here a comparable class of car is doing it in 8-9 seconds. The difference between the Prius and econoboxes overseas is that it gives you the fuel economy of a diesel.

Commercials feature 3D rendered cars all the time and they’re indistinguishable from the real thing. So why does this promo feel so cheesy and fake? It seems to me like they were going for the video game aesthetic, but it’s one of those things where you have to really embrace it or it feels like a mistake.

Ignoring the obvious blue=electricity, there seems to have been a shift from green to blue to represent concepts like sustainability. I’ve had a few clients specifically not want to use green. Blue is a perpetually safe corporate color and there was a perception that green was being overused. That’s always an odd…

I assume by much better you mean almost identical. I’m struggling to see how those tiny variations make any difference at all.The perspective in these two photos is too varied and the S60's is unclear.

It’s a known problem that infrastructure projects cost significantly more in the United States than anywhere in the developed world, including Japan and Germany. One of the big factors driving that is time spent on the project; they take longer to complete here than anywhere else. Another big problem is how these…

I’ll venture a guess that this is going to turn out like that WRX concept in that it will be a regular Impreza with some extra body trim. Not that I mind, necessarily, because I like the styling on the current Impreza wagon.

And then you get what happens in Europe where individuals engage in massive tax evasion. Remember the Panama papers?

You can’t make a judgement call on technology that’s still in it’s relative infancy. If unpredictability and challenge are important to you, perhaps you should get a horse. Or maybe a chariot if you really need wheels. But if internal combustion is a mandatory, then a 1908 Model T might do the job. Those all require a…

I would have thought that problems are more due to the pay-to-play structure that’s plaguing so many sports in the US. A lot of these sports are expensive both in terms of cost and time commitment. So it’s become the domain of the upper-middle classes and wealthy. From what I’ve observed these activities are regarded…