Which is why I was so surprised at the Manual FJ struggling to hit 18 highway.

Someone had the best weekend at the races, ever.

It surprisingly reasonably priced, but surely its not going on the trail with those rims and tires.

Look at the size of those things, it's not exactly a vespa scooter! And they managed to miss not one, but several of these things? Are our intelligence agencies just so busy reading everyones emails that they can't bother to look. Guys, if you love your country, dont email, and don't use your phone. Our spies are busy…

Electric steam horses?

I'm not familiar with a state in the US in which this is the case. Registration means you paid your taxes. Inspection means your car is safe to drive.

Same logic applies to gas taxes.

That all sounds sensible, except that I really don't see how registration rules do anything to protect the safety of other drivers, anymore so than say, gasoline tax.

Sorry, but no. The people who don't research their vehicles don't buy one because of its "best in class". They buy one because their friends have one, or because it looks pretty, or because their favorite TV character drives one, or because they simply must have that color. There are a variety of bad reasons to…

Two questions:

Needs a third pedal.

2 questions:

Isn't that when ACID rained from the sky?!?!?!

I think your math is off. 7mi @45mph=9.3min, 7mi@20mph=21min. That makes for a ~12min difference, which is enough to annoy most people. If there were stop along the way, difference increases, since bikes are slower to accelerate.

If their model wont scale up, their war on dealerships is pretty moot, isn't it?

While I think Tesla deserves all the props for excellent level of customer support, I wonder if it will be able to maintain it as its ownership increases. Its going to be hard to fly out engineers to peoples houses once there are a million teslas on the road.

Is this a fission reference? I left my snark dictionary at home.

There are two ways to think about these sort of arguments. One is that giving in is a slippery slope, and the other side is going to become emboldened and ask for more. The other is that a reasonable compromise deprives the other side of its strongest arguments. This, of course, applies to any controversial subject,…

How is buying a new car every time you pay one off different to saving up for a car up front, buying it, and immediately starting to save for the next one? Yes, there are some interest costs in there but they are pretty minor. Sure, its a lifestyle thing, but it isn't really projecting your lifestyle beyond the reach…

Wouldn't that mean that the creation of life means the destruction of god? Is that really where they want to take it?