Kudos to Panasonic. Managed to pull a pump and dump with someone else doing the pumping.

4th: there’s nothing more aggravating than someone at a busy gas station who leaves the car at the pump to go inside and do a little shopping (especially at Sheetz where you can order food). But at least it’s typically only a few minutes. Now imagine having to wait 20 minutes to charge the car, and the car ahead of…

Good. Hybrid tech has proven itself, and a traditional hybrid won’t need huge battery packs, so shouldn’t affect weight and handling much if designed from the ground up, and offer good end results.

I bet it’s going to be something like the Miata MX-e

Is this the inevitable end of the Craigslist/Ebay/FB Marketplace mass-keyword-phenomenon, where the person lists a car with a handful of descriptives followed by a paragraph of completely unrelated vehicles to game the search?

My favorite is cars that are clearly automatics listed as manuals.

1st: Best of luck with Mazda, although I’ve long written them off as a cursed brand/company. I own one and I love the car but the company feels like they’re constantly living on a borrowed time, and whenever they’re trying to bring up something big, they get hit by something that is beyond their control.

Ugh. The Aries/Reliant looks like it was designed by the 2x4 and band saw method.

In some regards, we are in the worst era of automotive design. Drew Magary has a great write-up on this, which is currently featured on road & track’s website. The things that make all of today’s vehicles look so similar, are the things that make our designs so efficient in terms of packaging and aerodynamics. Go out…

The current one. The kindergarten kid’s block toys with wheels on them era.

Every time a Tesla stan kisses Elon’s digital taint, Koenigsegg earns another patent. 

Koenigsegg is the visionary Musk pretends to be on his best days.

Unless I’m misreading, I like how what looks like an editors note “needs period for consistency” made it into your hemming bible.

As a tesla owner and seeing this play out in the various tesla owners groups, you’re 100% right. There are people defending it adamantly like its some huge improvement, comparing it to F1 steering wheels. Cultists, everyone single one of them. But there are plenty of people who see the emperor’s new clothes dont…

SAAB tried that:

Tesla will sell you the other half of the steering wheel via a $3,000 package they have named “Manual Automated Driving”.  Drivers can start ordering MAD soon. 

It’s a litmus test if you’re a Musk cult member: if you think this is a good idea, you are one.

And if you’re going to be ridiculous, go with a center control stick like a WW2 fighter, not something that could have come off a fucking Cessna.

All the most respected and highest property value neighborhoods are typically pedestrian-oriented. Doesn’t mean that cars can’t go there or that the residents in those neighborhoods are confined like in a prison. I live in a neighborhood where I can easily walk (~1/2 mile) to a grocery, post office, dollar store, 5 res…

Black plastic trim around the wheel wells and lower body to indicate “this isn’t a tall wagon, it’s an SUV!”  A lot of SUVs/CUVs would look much better if they were lowered 2" and had body-colored fender trim.  The new Mach E is one of the worst offenders, seeing it in person just makes you ask why they ruined it by…

A manual fore/aft lever, even if the rest of the seat controls are electric.