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I want to know this: Is swapping the old battery pack for a new one feasible? Is there a company out there that can do that? What about the solid-state batteries that are always around the corner?

Mitsubishi in general has good handling cars. My front wheel drive Outlander sport is no GTI, but It handles and rotates surprisingly well and I outdrive most people...I wonder if my old Evo sway bars will fit, I heard they used the same chassis underneath.

I think that’s a big part of what made the trio work so well — they did goofiness and sincerity with equal mastery. car media in particular is overwhelmed by personalities who can only do absurd or exaggerated silliness, and that’s why nobody since has been able to reach the levels that Clarkson/Hammond/May achieved.

As much of clowns as them boys can be; they all do have a tremendous talent to be poignant when they want to be.

I highly recommend listening to audio version of the book his wife and him wrote together, that covers the recovery from both his and her perspective. They each read their own chapters, and you can real feel the emotions they both went through.

If you haven’t read his book “On the Edge” - I HIGHLY recommend it. It deals directly with the crash and his recovery, and has a chunk in the center that had to be written by his wife - covering the time during and immediately after he was in hospital.

This is an underrated car. I wouldn’t say its a great car, but it’s a good car at a great price.

Are there new cars sold with 3 star crash safety or less?

“You know.... morons” 

I think its because as much as a certain portion of the population is trying to adopt EV’s or hybrids, there is an equally large if not larger group going out of their way to purchase large inefficient vehicles.

I don’t think the article is implying that the sale of large trucks and SUV’s is hindering the adoption of EV’s. But rather the increasing sales of these vehicles is cancelling out any net benefit emissions wise.

I used to commute this road nearly every day for 5 years between Hollywood and Marina del Rey. This street (La Brea) can feel like a mini-freeway which goes over the Baldwin Hills area. It is a really steep gradient each side and since she was coming downhill not hard to see how a Mercedes E450 could get up to that…

The colonial stuff that’s come out the woodwork today has been pretty spicy. The damage was far before her time. She oversaw almost every independence request. The Queen’s power or even mild persuasion diminished after the 1960s at best.

It’s generally noteworthy when the head of state of a nuclear armed US ally with the world’s 5th largest economy dies, who also is the head of state of a another US ally that shares our largest land border. Who is also the head of state of 13 other countries.

That doesn’t mean you can’t honour a lifetime devoted to public servitude.

The 2000 election was stolen. For that reason alone Nader’s candidacy is irrelavant.

Maybe, but maybe not and definitely not in the swift and thorough manner it was accomplished because of public backing. Take away Nader’s book and his reports and you have substantially less public outcry, less public involvement, less demand on the industry to change because you don’t have a bestseller that the…

Ralph Nader is going to catch some shit for this and we all love to hate him (especially for the 2000 election) but he’s 100% right. And about automotive safety he’s almost always been right. Cars were horribly, viciously unsafe until this nerd came along. 

May you live forever, Ralph.