That ticket price seems off. A 1-way flight leaving Wednesday is only $358 per person. Half of the days in July are under $220. In fact, I can’t find a single day the rest of the year where a one way is over $400.

So the guy wants a reliable car that is cheap to maintain and fun to drive. And y’all suggest a Wankel and a CVT-driven retirementmobile.

Enthusiasts will always complain if the car weighs more than they do. You simply can't have a featherweight car with this century's safety requirements. 

I still don’t see it. The Porsche screens have a completely different layout. The gauge cluster is more traditional and separated from the other dash screens, and the larger center screen is integrated into the center console. The Apple concept has a much more streamlined gauge/dash panel, and has the big screen…

“The Taycan’s screen layout looks suspiciously like Apple’s demo, doesn’t it?”

The Focus might actually have a chance at selling a few more that gas is 5 bucks a gallon. Americans are too fat for the Fiesta. 

If you can find one at a decent price, the Stinger GT Line is a nice alternative. A bit more power, similar niceties, and not much more money.

I was seriously considering this a couple years ago, and may have bought one if it had been available a few months earlier. Here’s what I ended up with, and how I think they compare.

I remember many years ago where Motor Trend had a little technology article about a system that used some sort of vacuum or heated air in place of wipers. Obviously, too expensive and complicated to ever see the real world, but cool to think about.

“Tesla plans”

Musk isn’t wrong about a recession. I worked for a utility company until early this year. A friend of mine who is a bit higher up and still there recently told me that the finance and legal folks predicted that we’d be facing a recession 2 years ago. They’ve been trimming people since, and more people have left on…

Ah, so The Man doesn't want us peasants knowing that all the good writers are leaving en masse (this is not to disparage anyone currently on staff, but you build a sort of relationship when you read a person's writing over a long period of time). 

The only time I ever stand up right away is if I know I have a really short time between connecting flights. The crew usually are aware of when this is the case, and will ask people who have time to stay seated, but I have yet to see that request heeded.

Re: Security lines.

Those are certainly some interesting updates to the manufacturing process, but it seems to me like those are aimed mainly at increasing their profit-per-unit. The cooling system is definitely an improvement from a packaging standpoint, but appears to be quite complex. Which usually means harder and more expensive to…

I honestly hope you're right. I can't stand Musk, but I would love for Tesla to have sustained success for the simple fact that it's one more American car company. Competition is good for the consumer. If they can ever get Musk to stop outright lying and pulling dumb stunts, that'd be great. It's not like I'd be best…

Kind of. Most people who label themselves as moderates are more in line with Reagan-style Republicans than anything that might be called liberal. It’s just that the official Republican party has gone so far right, it’s created this false middle ground.

No more Ford ads? How is Dennis Leary supposed to feed his family? 

“As gold as it sounds, most of the latter is in the dealers’ hands”

Just where is that R&D money going? The Model S was a paradigm shift, but I don’t see that they’ve made any real advances since it was released 10 years ago. I believe the battery packs are pretty much the same, incremental improvements notwithstanding. The only material difference between Autopilot and a dozen other…