Ah you beat me!

The thing about TLJ that no one seems to notice is that Johnson basically gave the franchise a big exit at the end. Everything TFA set up is gone. The First Order has been effectively destroyed — their leader is dead, their main fleet (which was also their industrial center) is destroyed, their military braintrust is…

Came here to make this joke.  Star for beating me to it.

Oh sure. I’m not making excuses for VinFast; just not surprised at all that their cars suck. 

“I lease my batteries ten seconds or less at a time.”

At least he had the common sense to wait until he was back in the US, or he could have VinDisappeared.

It’s all about “family.”

(And if there were still COTD, you win.)

Vingroup has businesses all over Vietnam. You might buy groceries at VinMart and clothing at VinPlaza.

I think you were doing your trip wrong. You should have spent 90% of your energy on the trip itself - scenery, food, entertainment, and etc. Then loosely focus the remaining 10% on those cars.

Very interesting article. The craziest part to me is the price. at $30k, the low slow speed and ride quality might be excusable. But at $70k+, you’re competing with Teslas, Base Taycans, Mach-E GTs, and other very impressive cars

Great write up. Kudos on not being afraid to speak truth to power.

“The VinFast Lux A 2.0 was based on the BMW 530i”

It’s possible to sidestep the Shaken of you don’t drive your car all the. Temporary plates with the red slash will get you on the road without a Shaken and a bit of smooth talking may avoid a ticket. Or the ticket is,the cost of doing business since my contact only goes to Japan for 2 months Ata time, runs his modified…

“Imagine paying ~$1,000 year to own a car”

Typical Certificate of Entitlement cost (which merely gives you the RIGHT to own a car) is currently around USD80,000. It is hard to give an exact figure because they are obtained via auction. I am not arguing with their rationale for making car ownership expensive, but damn.

Nobody does it like Singapore.

Singapore says “Hi”!

It only works in Japan because they have a really great public transportation system and their entire country is the size of California. The idea of taxing cars by weight is something that should be done here, as well as legalizing Kei cars for any roads that are under 50 mph.

That was Arne Toman and his “Fraud” Taurus, as he called it, a modified Audi S6. I met Arne and his car when they joined us on a rally a couple of months ago. People really did move out of the way.

There’d be a lot less surprise in that. Cops are all over musclecar-lookin’ rides like Marauders. Insurance companies charge you big time because those cars are theft bait too.