Tesla is far from the largest seller of electric cars in Europe, which is where the cited piece is discussing. Their annual sales amount to a couple months of the BMW i3 alone; VW, Renault and Nissan also handily outsell them, so it makes sense for Ford and Daimler-Benz to help enlarge the infrastructure already…

I saw the first car I owned, a 1978 Mercury Zephyr 302 V8 station wagon I got for nothing when my mother died, at least twice after I traded it in on my first new car. It was a odd color combination so it was easy to spot on the road or in parking lots. According to the new car salesman one of the dealership mechanics…

White Whiners Matter

IIRC, US 560s and 420s were all LWB, while 380/500s were available as stretched or not. The LWB does go with your theory of ‘80s excess, but the SWB’s proportions has its own attractions.

Despite the styling, I recall the platform as being closer the the G Laser than the J LeBaron.

It’s a neologism coined by a Japanese company, so strictly speaking not an English (or American, since the practices for plurals are somewhat different) word and the coiner should be the authority for what the plural is intended to be. However, as a foreign word borrowed into American, the practice of everyday…

They are at Infiniti.

The incentives are going to depend on which site is chosen and the relevant jurisdictions; it conceivably could be in Fayette County or Washington County instead of Pittsburgh proper or Allegheny County, although I think it unlikely. And it’s not like 50,000 are being dropped in at once, it will be over some time. The…

It may not snow often, but it does get cold occasionally, so colder-weather tires are useful. As for your summer tires in winter, some summer tire models advise that if the temperature goes below freezing or thereabouts, the tires should not only not be driven on, they should only be used again if they are warmed very…

Isn’t there a Youtube vid about people who tried this needing to be hospitalized, or dying? Something about overheating, dehydration and suffocation.

This must be why you don’t care that wearing polarized sunglasses makes some LCD instruments disappear; you don’t wear them.

The two-piece pasta cutter (roll your own) was a free bonus when I bought my most recent KA, but I would love to have the sausage casing stuffer.

The two-piece pasta cutter (roll your own) was a free bonus when I bought my most recent KA, but I would love to…

Don’t most vehicles that appeal primarily to single people and childless couples have lower resale value and sales volume than vehicles that appeal to people with families? Isn’t this a reason why manufacturers, intentionally or not, push buyers toward family vehicles by dropping lower-volume and less-expensive…

Hardee’s ‘roast beef’ is Roy Rogers. Marriott sold the Roy Rogers chain to Hardee’s in 1990; they sold half the stores to other chains and rebranded 80% of the stores they kept as Hardee’s while adopting the most popular menu items, leaving about 50 Roy Rogers-branded stores in regions where it had good market share.

This person apparently was taught the (correct) concept that applause is an expression of appreciation for live performers present in the venue. Applause for recordings, inanimate objects, and indeed, oneself (which is essentially what you describe) is considered gauche. But that ship sailed decades ago; rudeness and…

Why do we blame the manufacturers for the failure of US customers to want real colors? We used to have them, some of the Japanese in the name of efficiency put stricter limits in place and the other manufacturers noticed that they got away with it and followed suit.

Produce the doors at scale? How the fuck do you get out of the car after pulling into your garage? Or do you always park outside so your neighbors will be impressed by your affluence?

I’m sorry, but I don’t think the statement goes into sufficient detail about how long ago the alleged event allegedly occurred.

The Jetta dropped the multilink rear in 2010 but, but it came back in 2014. MQB or no, the 2019 apparently ditches it again to keep prices low. I’m not sure that this is the right tradeoff. VW planners are again convinced that American buyers don’t care as long as the suspension is sorted well enough and won’t pay …

No. The instrument cluster is the thing I hate most about my Mazda3, even though I have the other cluster with the analogue speedo and smaller tach. Yes, Jason, you do need an analogue speedometer, because like an analogue watch it’s more user-friendly for access to the information most drivers need. I don’t need to…