If they wanted boxy, they could have gone with what the Palisade was doing. This thing looks like it’s putting a ton from the IONIQ 5, when the IONIQ design cues are supposed to be unique to that sub-brand.

Yesssss 60 bucks a year, which divided by twelve months is... 5 bucks a month when paid annually, like I said.

If it remains 60 bucks a year / 5 bucks a month when paid annually, which is the price I’ve been paying for years, I’m fine with it. I suspect that price will quickly creep up, though.

I hope that Performance Blue is available non-matte as well - it looks amazing but is a bitch to keep looking that way.

I went up to our Nissan store in Rutland, and there was conversation going on there about how customers could reach ours, with as many road closures and such there are. I was told that some dealerships in the state are facing total inventory loss in addition to building damages.

Can we start with mandating labeling caffeine content on the packaging? A lot of things do but it’s hidden around the side somewhere. Maybe on the nutrition label, and with additional labeling required at a specific size on the front of the packaging once it’s over a certain amount per serving.

Make sure you ask the sales team. We have an overflow lot at work and it’s crammed full of IONIQ 5s, and we only have one or two on the main lot itself. Gotta make room for those forty Santa Fes!

That’s a good one. I have a dashcam and would like to occasionally show driving fails on other peoples’ parts, but when I review it there’s a lot of yelling from me. (It’s therapeutic and is off my mind minutes later, but still, I could try to have some semblance of chill about someone trying to yield their four-way…

Then make sure you “recruit” SAM, because the causal dialogue between Parvati and SAM is unequivocally The Best.

Sure, but not on this level. (I attended Otakon a few times when it was in Baltimore, too.) And the reason they moved to DC was because the BCC didn’t have the capacity they wanted. They wanted more and BCC said they couldn’t accommodate. Otakon had a lot of people packed into hallways and stuff, sure- still COVID…

The convention center itself should put a cap on it. That’s why Otakon moved - they wanted more attendance and Baltimore didn’t have the capacity.

The Blobeye is what was in Project Gotham Racing 2, my introduction to the vehicle, so I absolutely have a soft spot for it.

Oh, it travels with the transponder off? Cute.

Sh, we can’t expect people to read the article.

Yeah, I used to prefer ATI (then AMD) cards, but then programs started developing for their cards so hard that ATI was the inferior choice, not because of the cards themselves but just support. I won’t cry if a developer looks in the other direction.

My loyalty lies six feet under in the grave of Saturn.

When we get a used Leaf on the lot, it never has over 100 miles of capacity. Nissan completely botched the battery management, and since they were such an early contender, they gave other EVs a bad name - battery degradation was on everyone’s lips when it didn’t have to be. Hello Ariya, and whatever new nameplate…

Okay now use this as a way to get the Hyundai N Vision 74 into our hands.

Ah, true. Particularly because, on these Chargepoint units at least, each cable is on a swing-out section (we have CHAdeMO and CCS). I assume they’d just replace the CHAdeMO cable with an NACS one. Still an expense but one that dealers, or ideally manufacturers, could stomach more easily.

Man, the owner of the dealership I work at is gonna be *pissed* if he has to replace the four Level 3 chargers we just installed. That’s something that other dealerships will have to contend with as well - and manufacturers. “You made us install these in order to sell and service EVs, and now you’re changing the port…