He’s in a unique situation. If someone dies in a Ford, nobody holds James Hackett personally responsible. Hell, I consider myself a car guy and I just had to use google to find the CEO of Ford’s name.

There is no safe failure mode. Unanticipated emergency braking at highway speeds is not necessarily safer.

The safe failure mode is handing the controls to the human operator who is supposed to remain alert and ready to resume full control at all times.

Normal use does not include unsupervised operation of the vehicle. This ‘autopilot’ system is essentially slightly enhanced cruise control.

I come here specifically to not have to watch youtube car vloggers, and this 717 guy is one of the worst (ok, he’s better than cleetus mcdumbass).

I think the staging is done well for the the big selling point - space. This is NYC, where people are paying thousands per month to live in a studio apartment the size of one of those bedrooms.

Generations of eight-year-olds survived riding around in the beds of pickup trucks.

No need. The US version was on the air more than long enough to follow every storyline to its conclusion.

The UK version of the show only had two short seasons and left a lot of unanswered questions.

The turbo was only available with the CVT, so no real loss here.

Cars I wouldn’t want to own out of warranty for $1000, Alex.

Do you think anyone cared that the project car taking permanent residence in one of the front parking spots in their shared lot was being removed?

This disregards the role of dealerships in the US. Unlike many other markets where you order your car, US consumers generally buy from dealer inventory. With dealerships being consolidated into larger and larger groups run by people who haven’t been near the consumers since the 80's, they order according to…

As cable subscribers, we ARE their cash cows.

A huge chunk of our monthly cable bill goes to ESPN, regardless of whether we want it or watch anything on their multiple channels of shit programming (from the perspective of someone who hasn’t really watched anything on an ESPN channel since Tony Hawk landed the 900).

Zoom Zoom.

Not recent, but probably their last memorable campaign.

I really enjoyed it. It was funny. I found myself re-watching a few episodes last week without even knowing the new season was on the way.

Now consider that all those cars listed would have engines displacing more than 2.0l.

I would bet everything I have and will ever have on Biden.

Of course it would play out like some WWE drama, with someone distracting the ref so Putin can sneak in with a foreign object.

Chains are good, but there’s usually some guides or tensioners that go bad along the way.

Scrooge had money. Trump just has a fragile web of bullshit protected by NDAs, and NDAs are becoming rapidly unfashionable.

You could distract a redneck from his own house on fire with a nice mud pit.

Wow. Those turns are a LOT closer together at F1 speeds.