“The tip-in acceleration isn’t like any gasoline-powered car on the market, because it doesn’t need to ramp up”

The venn diagram of people buying Cybertrucks and people driving on original factory tires until they are bald is just a circle...

this is just a issue of when a “offroad/work” vehicle becomes a mom carrier that does no real work and needs efficiency on the normal roads.

The 70 mph range test (120 kph) has been pretty standard for independent testing for many years. There are plenty of resources (insideevs.com for one) with comparable results. Tesla is one of the most prevalent manufacturers to underperform their EPA estimates.

I mean-Toyota will still sell you a 14 year old brand new 4Runner. Ram’s not alone in this. Though there’s a lot more love for the T4R.

Yeah, right? It’s super bizarre to me that this story is framed that it’s not the fault of the man who: was driving 107 mph, fled from law enforcement, running red lights, was a convicted felon with a loaded stolen gun, and had a warrant on him, that the ultimate outcome was that he drove beyond his means and crashed.…

I am neither extreme. I honk when needed

Torque and entitlement are a bad combination.

Nobody did em as good as Jim

This is what equality looks like. There was a time when of course this would have been a boy. But the strides we have made. Brings a tear to my eye. 

The other problem is finding repair shops that will repair to sub-micron tolerances.

The question is backwards. In general, the less power you have, the more gears (speeds) you need. If an engine was very powerful, it could get by with one gear.

It seems the downsizing is being handled humanely, at least, with “partial or early retirement” covering the sum total of the layoffs. Can you imagine having that kind of safety net?

I still chuckle that Fain and the UAW thought this new deal with the Big 3 was going to finally help it make inroads into the Japanese/Euro automakers.

It looked like Wayne Brady did have to choke a bitch!

I don’t understand why we keep adding nannies instead of enforcing and increasing the penalties for laws that already exist. Increase driver training requirements, increase fines, decrease number of second chances, etc.

A union would sweden their work conditions; right now, there’s norway they can work as-is. In order to finnish this, they need to agree on basic conditions, denmark the terms they will flex a bit on.

lol, funny story, one day I was sitting at a light and some guy in a white Ford Taurus blows past the stop bar and stops right in the cross walk. I decided to yell out the window “you fucking ran the stop bar; you might as well run the fucking light” and... damn if they didn’t do just that...

On top of that, they don’t even accelerate at a reasonable pace, they always seem to take off as slow as possible!

I’m a scientist, so I have some experience in doing things that are hard. Tackling hard problems is how we make progress.