I’ve had reason to drive by the Marin tesla service center 2-3 times a year for the past 3 years & last month was the first time their backlog/overflow lot was chock full, with a service line running out to the service road off the 101.

Know of any good local places to off-road? I’ve been in the North Bay 4 years now & still haven’t found a place to get my binder dirty in a legal manner.

No heat, no wipers, no rearview mirror... this isn’t even complete. Battery was relocated for some reason, and it’s a gutless 152 with the least desirable manual xmission they offered.

I see the Scout is listed as a VW rather than its own entity, and that manufacturing is so far slated for Chattanooga.  Also, WTF is Giant Motors?

Lightnings and electric Transit vans are already seeing Ag use in the local wine industry. Ford & PG&E have a working partnership in Sonoma County... something to the order of a half-dozen vineyards are part of their test bed, one just a few miles from the house here. Probably something to do with commercial-scale…

I’ve stated for over a decade that true self-driving will never happen until cars can communicate with each other and the road/traffic system itself...

Check out the forum some time & read some of the suggestions from current owners... there’s excitement there. I’m looking forward to their announcing trail rides once there’s a prototype next year.

If it’s BEV and made in the U.S., I see nothing wrong with it. This isn’t going to be a Suburban-sized goliath... it’ll likely have the same wheelbase options as the OG (and new Bronco) ~100"-118".

The president of the Scout Owners club in Fort Wayne invited Scott Keogh to their rally this last summer... they picked him up at the airport in 23 (IIRC) Scouts & let him pick which one he drove to the old factory.

This story repeats in many rural areas, especially around meat production plants.  Latino and Somali communities have blossomed where you’d never expect.

Hydrogen is indeed happening, only in the commercial transport sector to begin with. Oceangoing vessels are already making the shift, and CA has ordered another 30 or so filling stations and a couple H2 powered commuter trains.  Cummins, Ford, Toyota, Kenworth, Volvo, Iveco/Hyundai, Siemens, ZF and Mercedes are all…

Laguna Seca is a couple hour drive from here, I can jump on Hwy 1 & head due south.

Lithium Valley, Formerly the Salton Sea, holds enough Lithium for 1/2 the world’s needs... there are currently three companies using geothermal vents to bring the mineral-rich slurry up to green-fueled processing sites which pump the lithium-free liquid back into the earth to pick up more in a closed-loop system.  As…

Umpteen articles about this 10k lb monstrosity, yet barely a whimper about the new Scout...

My neighbor’s Ioniq 5, a gorgeous car with impeccable seeming fitment, sings as it drives...

Any vintage solid-axle, leaf-sprung, sub-100hp rig... they’ll understand why I drive the speed limit or under on shitty roads.

No. 

No.

My parents owned one brand new car their entire lives. I started handing wrenches to Dad, and holding flashlights very early. Any motorized toys us two kids got were secondhand & required repair before being operational... from our Honda QA50, to our Z50, then the obligatory Trail 90 and ATC 110 with a couple…

Disappointing? What’s disappointing is this blog’s absolute inability to turn a wrench... Is this solely a car review blog now? The last time I remember any current writer working on their crapbox, they needed to hire a mobile mechanic to finish the repair.