It would be a damn shame if I never made it to Matra’s toyhouse up in Romorantin:

I’ll never understand this take with auto museums. Yes, if all classics were that way it’d suck, but there are plenty of non-museum classics that are still out on the roads being used and maintained.

I mean it is, but in terms of setting and selection there’s nothing else that comes close. If I wanted good driving characteristics I’d be in Dirt or Gran Turismo; I just want a ‘car tourism simulator’ like TDU used to be, and Horizon is the only thing that comes close these days.

Meh, not only were the physics awkward, I hated how lazy they were with the scaling and weather systems. Driving through SF’s four city blocks covered in snow is about as immersion-breaking as it gets. Horizon is flawed, but their maps are unbeatably rich and beautiful, not to mention their car list is unparalleled. I…

That was fairly unique and unparalleled, though. Citroen wanted a monowiper on the XM to echo the CX’s but could never replicate the performance of the Mercedes mechanism so had to settle for standard wipers. Then again, you could always do the Seat thing and make a super thick A-pillar for them to park in:

Exactly! That was the Prius’ most iconic color!

Cool! Good news! Maybe they can try making it not so damn expensive 😧

I don’t think Crown could be compared to Mazda persay. It’s always been a uniquely JDM phenomenon, essentially their version of Ford’s Vignale or Citroen’s former DS line except with actual bespoke cars and platforms. I seriously doubt any of these will come stateside, and certainly not with Crown badges.

Hah! fair, I’m just not sure if these would be prized as ‘future classics’ or simply ‘vaporware garbage’.

I got 42 highway on the new Sonata with the 2.5L over about a thousand miles of cruising which fairly easily beats the EPA estimate of 38. That said, I was trusting the trip computer to provide me that figure. 

Want. It’s fairly unfortunate that they’re going under; the premise of a ‘solar car’ was always a bit bunk, but the design was really quite attractive, almost Citroenesque, and they even got as far as reaching a production deal with Valmet. (Not to mention I have a serious soft spot for Dutch cars.) IIRC the MSRP was…

I dunno, I’ve seen documentation of several incidents of a single Cruise or Waymo just stopped in the way of a bus or tram and not moving until help arrives. Not as consequential as 12 of them, sure, but it’s almost becoming a conspiracy to hinder public transit at this point.

Easy. Any Goggomobil.

I think 15 minutes is perfectly reasonable.

The waterfall is classic!

Waymo say they have a 15 minute ‘emergency response team’ which is unacceptably slow in my book. 

Honestly, at this point I don’t even care anymore that Waymo is testing on public roads. My issue is that the cities that are affected by it are apparently too much of a pushover to do anything about it. Yesterday I saw a Tiktok of 10 Waymo Jags stopped completely blocking a street in downtown Phoenix, and cops were…

woah. you’re damn right!

Good one. This was Infiniti hitting its stride and being the Japanese BMW, everything RWD and many of them with a V8.