Hyundai’s promo material shows a bike in the back, over the tailgate (as one does even in full size trucks, using a pad) but it’s tweaked at a 45-degree angle, so you can fit ONE bike in the back.

Continental’s president Robert Lee said that the companies should do more than just listen, they should act

Fellow islander here (username checks out) - it used to be a lot worse. There are still pockets where people are outwardly aggressive racist asshats, but you’ll generally be fine in any town along a road-trip corridor.

I’m considerably shorter, but you reminded me of the hateful party trick of this dogshit rental - the hatch opens all the way allowing my 5’10” meat sack to walk under without fear of braining myself. THEN IT LOWERS 3” (approx 1 second later), enabling screams and hate-filled rants.

Only tangentially related - I’m renting a “Blazer” on a trip now, and the low-speed throttle response is fucking atrocious. I nearly made two of my family members vomit, and I’m usually an extremely smooth driver. It acts like a teeny bit of pressure on the gas pedal = GO AS FAST AS YOU FUCKING CAN, and you can’t…

MEDIOCRE!

That Transit … clearly designed by someone who has never actually cooked outside.  Your sleeping area is going to smell like the back of a McDonald’s in about 4 days.

That choke point is because of the “temporary” entrance set up for Covid vaccine distribution. That’s where I got stabbed (both times).

Yeah - I’m married to a psychologist, and while “unhinged” may not be fair, he very much fits into antisocial personality disorder characterization.

Sorry about the cat. We had to put down our 13yo dog in December and it was emotionally crippling for the kids. Adopted a rescue 2 months ago and he is the best thing that ever happened to us.

Musk is an unhinged sociopath. But do we really need to make associations to him being nothing more than a used car salesman? Is “unhinged sociopath” not enough?

Endgame offers a pretty rich, if short, version of what life looked like during the Blip. It’s bleak. Natasha basically reduced to hermit status, eating PB&Js while looking for her best friend, who went on a globe-trotting bad-guy murder spree because his entire family was snapped out of existence, while Cap took…

1) Get vaccinated

I’m hoping that this is the first phase of eliminating dealers entirely. If you have regional distribution + online ordering, you don’t need dealers for anything besides service. Which EVs need a lot less of compared to their ICE counterparts.

It doesn’t seem to be doing anything wrong, per se. But the fact that the vehicle would make a different decision than me, and the rest of my body wouldn’t be prepared for the acceleration and turn, would likely result in frustration. And nausea.

That’s exactly the thing - it’s ideal for use in off-road situations, and it’s great for around town use.

I very much want an electric roadster.  Please, Porsche.  Call it the 914e to really make people’s heads explode.

There’s precedent here in the construction and farming industries, but it seems deeply irritating as a consumer if I purchase the vehicle.

Exactly. I would actually be surprised (and, as an American, angry) if the US military allows camera-equipped vehicles to sensitive areas behind the gate.

37 miles of electric range is literally perfect for me. My office, you know, the place I went to during the day in the Before Times, is 35 miles away, and we have chargers on-site.