You could just save your money and fix the VW 135k is not a super huge amount of miles. Dump some money into fixing its problems, then in a few years give it to the kid, it won’t be so yuck when it’s either this or get a job you freeloading brat and buy your own car. Then go buy yourself a midlife crisis Corvette.

Tesla was cool with the project, though they were told not to mess with any of the car’s electronics.

That “excess cooling capacity” might be missed by those of us who commute in our Shelbys. On warm days in Seattle traffic, I am thankful for my GT500's ample cooling capacity.

I’m in this camp. I don’t give a shit if you raise or lower taxes, but I want my tax dollars to be spent on what you said you would, THIS YEAR. No ridiculous 20 year pipe dream hyperloop projects. Fix my fucking road on the way to work. Some of the road’s here in the north bay are as bad as third world countries.

I don’t know if this is an attack on people wanting lower taxes but most people who desire lower taxes don’t want basic needs like roads negated, but rather want their taxes spent more wisely.

And then?

Yeah, Shakespear was total garbage too, cause they didn’t allow women on stage. How DARE the past not live up to your contemporary indignation!

Average car buyer - “My 2000 Honda accord needs $300 worth of ball joints, this thing is a money pit. $30,000 is a lot cheaper than the repairs. I’ll just buy a new car.” I hear this excuse all the times. People are idiots.

Because its not actually an improvement. It means the Model 3 was released with some sort of bug/unresolved issue with the braking system that is causing much longer braking distance than expected for the type of vehicle.

I think the problem is, if you look at video game development at least, for some problems the practice quickly becomes “whatever, just get it out the door, we can fix that after release”

The worrisome corollary to a car that can be improved via wifi is that the same car can be worsened via wifi.

This is PR move. It sets them up in positive light no matter the outcome.

This was my thought as well. Don’t like there being two standards? Make your cars to the higher one and then you only have one to worry about. I guess some might worry about competitors going after the low-hanging fruit, so they don’t want there to be low-hanging fruit. But if they collectively think that one standard…

So, why don’t the automakers just follow the CARB rules and thus would be complying with the US Federal rules? Why does the government “need” to place the rules? Aren’t the automakers made up of good upstanding people? Obviously with their letter they care about the environment right? So what exactly is stopping the…

“Only models with at least 50,000 sales in each year from 2013-2017 were included in the analysis.”

Truer words were never spoken. I freind of mine just bought a nice ‘15 Audi A4 and was excited to tell me he was getting almost 30 MPG on the highway. My wife’s Mercedes with the 3.5 liter, 302 HP V6 gets 32.

If only there was a way to make small engines work well in trucks. Oh wait. We’ve pretty much banned them...

I’m expecting reliability to plummet as well.

If the 4 cylinder in the colorado is anything to go by, it will get worse mpg than the six. When I had my i4 I struggled to get 18. Now with the v6 I average 20.5 easy.