“An anorexic plumbing insulator who drives stick, sometimes off-road in his aging SUV, as he heads out to grab a dozen or so pounds of lobster, which he’ll share with his gerbil, who walks around in a huge mechanical exoskeleton he printed on a 3D printer?”

If you text and drive, Fuck you.

Disclaimer: No brain cells were harmed in this video

Great flip. Excellent flexibility. Good poise. Shame he didn’t stick the landing.

I’m probably part of the niche, but living in California where we don’t get any notable weather, I need space (2 kids), and I like being able to turn fast and have a car that handles well...wagons seem perfect for me. But like you said, I’m in the minority.

Disagree.

Yes, by all means rank dependability on the 3 years they are still under warranty and include things like “people don’t like their bluetooth connection.”

You realize that that is true for every single corporate tax (and every other tax as well) right? By that argument, we should completely get rid of corporate taxes altogether because it’s really the consumer that’s paying it! Every single tax ever eventually comes down to the consumer paying it. That’s the way the…

As long as gas prices remain low, there is no reason on the consumer side to use alternative technologies. So raising gas prices is kind of the point. One major reason for government taxes and subsidies is to capture externalities not otherwise reflected in the market.

Good.

The economy is bigger than the cost to fill your tank. Cheap gas = not necessarily a good thing.

Only if you are an evil sociopath who has actively been destroying the company for your personal gain.

Scion became a man and became Toyota.

It wasn’t axed, it just had its Brand Mitzvah.

Scion is such a youthful brand it was only 13 years old when it was axed.

I really don’t think we’re sycophantic to Tesla. We have no problem calling them out when they do something stupid or wrong. I was forbidden from driving their cars on at least one event, even. We run stuff like this http://jalopnik.com/consumer-repor… or http://jalopnik.com/report-two-thi… and we’ll report what we…

I’ve been hoping for this all day. Way to dash my dreams, Toyota!

I’m not praising him! I just said I can understand the urge to do it, too, but that’s just because I’m a deeply flawed man prone to unprofessional decisions. Maybe like someone much richer than me.