Makes them well short of the Bugatti record, which was the whole shtick in the first place, so still rather putout about the boondoggle of a first attempt.

The truth is a bit more nuanced. Munro also sells these teardowns and informational work (plus services on how they can do the same for their own company!) to other people in the automotive sphere. It's a significant source of inside information regardless of their PR reach and it is a huge conflict of interest for…

Having tried leaves and normal office paper in desperation.... I think that is a totally valid thing. I now also carry a travel roll in my backpack and car llol. Only takes one (well maybe 2) time to realize how awful it feels to be stranded with the shits.

It isn’t a generational thing. I feel safe without it. It isn’t being safe. I feel safe solo hiking without telling anyone where I am going. It isn’t being safe. I feel safe taking long trips in semi-familiar areas without a small first aid kit. It isn’t being safe.

Conversation about acceptable risk, yeah all fair. Also I too remember life before phones, and didn’t have one for most of my life either, including most hiking opportunities. I actually have still an older “dumb phone” that I’ll sim swap into during disconnected hikes to compromise, so I can see that perspective as…

I don’t recommend relying on phones solely for keys, and no one should... but having a phone that can at least turn on and attempt to make emergency calls is a safety requirement as well. Even if they don’t work all the time. It’s one layer of redundancy along the way. You are hiking and shit happens, break an ankle…

Yeah exactly people complaining about options. Like stop people... you can still have your fat key, you can still have your wallet card or key code entry AND a phone unlock. Personally I rather like having a key in my wallet and a key as my phone. I never forget my phone in the car anymore because making sure it’s…

4th Gear: The Musk story with China becomes even more convoluted and complex when you consider that SpaceX is innovating at a mind-numbing pace with test to fail philosophy and that getting on the good side for one industry is likely incentivized by the other... also the current administration (and a wide-swath of…

Those look terrible.

Now those are gorgeous wheels... If only they didn’t have two sets of nostrils on the car... Well and if only they sold Alpine in the US.

They look fine. Inoffensive and fine. I swear though when 9 times out of 10 a car journalist says wheels look great are the times they are actually vomit inducing. Example being the 991 S Fuchs wheels or Alpine’s turbine wheels.

Seriously. And it’s insanely frustrating.

(Obviously generational labeling is flipping stupid and everyone whines about every new generation degrading society... we have 2000+ year old quotes more or less saying the same crap... but engaging in this for a bit...) Millennial here, much as Baby Boomers deserve a huge amount of blame for almost all the problems…

I bought a car in 2020 during the used car boom where I netted down 1k after 20k added miles in 15 months with a 2018 Fusion Hybrid. Have I been negatively financially affected by the pandemic? Other than the insane housing boom playing havoc on relocation for a new job... no, I’ve been lucky. I also have yet to meet…

It’s somewhat dumb yes, but the difference between talking about a car as a whole or mostly about it’s powertrain. The full powertrain (including battery) is still rather superior for Tesla. The infrastructure as well. If Mach E used supercharger network, it might be a hardish call. Tesla still is faster and longer…

Welcome to the stupidity of stock driven decision-making. Risk and RnD is worth less than milking the cow (unless it isn’t “mature” yet, then speculation can drive without limits)

Must be broken, because the normal SUV looks great and the truckUV seems nicely practical and not worse looking than current US offerings.

Lowest mileage vehicle in the parental fleet hit 100k last month (2013 Ford Fusion, second owner). Also have a 160k 2013 Explorer (second owner) and a 222k 2002 F150 with tons of rust (first owner). They like Fords, what can I say. Hahaha. Before that 2001 Ford Focus went through them and my sister before croaking in…

I do think Merc “dominance” is a bit overstated in the Hybrid Era. Ferrari clearly had the better car overall in 2019 and 2018, and just couldn’t stop tripping over itself. Red Bull in 2018 was also very competitive, but likewise the drivers (and admittedly some huge Renault reliability problems) made too many…

Lincoln was very intune to the telegram and phonogram, so while properly mindblowing once they really think about it, the idea of working without wires to transmitt sound/info wouldn’t be that big of a deal (esp since some wires in most plugged in stuff would be around). It’s all about how many inferential steps they…