With numbers like that, I might be inclined to have a healthy dose of skepticism about this whole thing, except you link the Lucid Air article right in the middle of this one.

Those ‘Idiot investors’ in your headline are the ones who correctly realize that Uber has zero future if they don’t have autonomous tech either first or very soon after someone else develops it. Uber’s entire business model falls apart once autonomous (or even level 4 limited autonomous) vehicles exist. If I were…

Did you pick out your casket ahead of time, or are you letting that be a family decision? =P

men of Torch’s age are not unfamiliar with a little sag, and he may not have noticed this was an issue. 

Initial quality looks for problems you identify very early in ownership (90 days). Dodge owners are not arriving at the dealer with a checklist of things to review. If you buy a Tesla, it’s very likely that you’ll have one of the plethora of checklists to review every tiny detail of the vehicle inside and out before…

I mean, are we talking married sex or “we just met in a recently reopened bar so let’s go have some wild Covid 19 spreading and possibly die in a few weeks"sex? 

Everyone: Mazda, make a turbo/manual/AWD mazda 3 hatch!!!!

Yeah but then the cars are always whining about it. 

And yet, Dodge does not require people who purchased their cars with the supercharger option to also purchase a subscription to use that option

Indian’s got their dealer and ownership experience on fucking point too. Dealer in my city is downtown near the bar district in an old restored building, exposed steel and brick and all. The showroom is full of old and custom bikes with some new stuff spread out. When a craft brewery set up shop next door, they…

Precisely this. Indian makes better bikes, their staff is friendlier, and they don’t have the stigma.

the maker of very expensive, very heavy toys, primarily for Americans

Cold setting has a proper name: plastic deformation You are stressing the material past its yield point so that when it relaxes it takes a permanent deformation. this will work much better on a steel frame than an aluminum one.

Great to see the hobby hit Jalop Prime. Now I have an excuse to show off my work!

That URL is tough to send people without some ‘splainin to do.

None of this surprises me. My brother and sister-in-law are typical, uneducated, working poor. They have two full-size Chevy trucks that they bought used, on 6yr loans (and overpaid for at a dealership). And because they have shitty credit (of course), even with my Mother co-signing they are paying like 12% interest.

As an owner of a Euro repair shop you need immediately replace the primary timing chain tensioner (will take you 3 hours if you're slow) and the oil separator on the valve cover or it will fail and destroy the rear main seal. Dealer parts on both! I can get you my discount and have drop shipped to you if you want.

Crack Pipe.

Who would buy a house in Florida next to water in 2020 in the timeline where Al Gore couldn’t stop climate change?

This is cool, but seems kind of unnecessary and pointless.