Yikes.

I may just be tempted into getting a motorcycle license if it looks like that, lights and all, when it comes out. That’s sick.

Throw a higher-revving inline-4 into it with similar power and torque. Bam, done. Next?

There was a late-90s reboot of the cartoon with actual production value and which also provided an origin story for Skeletor. Unlike the original, it was actually pretty good and it’s a shame it got cancelled.

RE Audi: the A4 might be front-biased, but the S4 and RS4 are not. That being said, VAG has more experience with front-drive than BMW and it shows very clearly when you compare the A3 to the current 1-series.

At about the same price as the Mach E? You would have to be genuinely ignorant of the other market options to choose this car.

why must all cars be powered only by electricity in the future?

If it were any more of a washing machine on wheels, it would be a Tesla.

Interior is excellent. Exterior is undercooked.

I feel like Pinarello is a better fit for modern Ferrari, and Colnago should definitely be Alfa Romeo. But Bianchi? Does anybody still care about Bianchi? I feel like the leaders are Pinarello, Specialized, and Canyon, but maybe that’s just the much more prolific marketing.

DC metro area?

We’ve talked about this before, but...totes jelly right now.

I splurged on a Tarmac SL6 Comp last spring; I got it with the Ultegra Di2 groupset on sale (a COVID-era sale on bikes, imagine that!) for about $3800 and I cannot fathom an S-Works being significantly more enjoyable to ride than this. Certainly not enough to justify the $9200 premium they now command. That’s two or…

It depends entirely on what you want to do with it. A high-pivot is inherently less good at pedaling (yes, I know they can mitigate it) and also not good for popping off rims for jumps and stuff. It is, however, absolutely excellent for monster-trucking over stuff with that entirely rearward motion.

The only requirements for having a good credit score are having a line of credit at all and then paying it off reliably. If you make regular food purchases at your supermarket on a credit card and you pay that card off regularly, you are going to have a decent score. If you are making your rent regularly, you are…

Toyota is not a baby step company, they are a Japanese company. Like I said above, their entire cultural ethos is to let everybody else push the envelope so they can come behind and refine it, do it better and do it more cheaply. Even the hybrid was not theirs, first, they just had the best one at the right time. They…

The GT looks closer to what an RMR Corvette would look like...if GM had the balls and brains to ditch their shitty pidgin of a design language.

I don’t disagree with you about hybrids being a relevant stop-gap solution for the US. My point, I think, is that Toyota was not planning on having to go all-in on the US market to offset the the share they will inevitably lose in Europe and even parts of Asia where the electrification push is more aggressive and…

No, it means some people don’t do much to set themselves up for success and are not good at recognizing that aspect of their lives.

You are being too nice to Toyota.