I live and breathe camper vans, and have a van life consultancy side hustle. Given your specific requirements (the key one is that you’ll be full-timing and probably boondocking quite a bit) here is an exhaustive (as far as my brain goes) list of rational options to consider. While the suggestions above are…

here’s the NPR piece.

I’ll post about this over on OPPO, but what COVID in LA taught us was that taking 98% of the cars off the road only reduced SMOG components 14%. Really. 14%.

“the pedals don’t actually power the bike, they stand in for a right hand bar throttle, controlling the bike’s acceleration.”

Taycan option list:

This would immediately be the best looking Nissan sold in the US. Heck, badge it as an Infiniti if you need to, they don’t have much else going on, 

In 2019 MBZ spent $485m, Ferrari spent $463m and RBR spent $445m.

“payment relief on my mortgage, starting in May, for three months”

I’m sure if Hertz could get three months payment relief, they’d be fine too.

Planning for almost two months of almost no business is not a normal economic event, even deep recessions don’t do that. And yeah, not every business is wholly successful, some are struggling, and some are impacted by this more than others.

If they quit going to Starbucks and eating avocado toast every morning they would be just fine. They just need to get a 2nd or 3rd job and pull themselves up by their boot straps. 

You know all the disadvantages of nuclear power? This doesn’t have that. 

I’d pretty much accepted there won’t be a 2020 F1 season a while ago. Seems a little silly at this point to keep dragging it out with announcements each week about yet another canceled race

Mazda does make beautiful cars. I really think an electric Miata would sell like crazy if they can price it under 30K and make it have a range of 200 miles or so. I mean they put so much money into Wankel which is FAR more complex to fix/troubleshoot/refine the sealing issues. Compared to that an Electric Miata should…

Ah, yes, the virtues of unpaid leave! Good thing we don’t live in a country where 78% of its workers live check to check. That would really make unpaid leave seem like a false choice, and something that anyone with a functioning brain would see as “bad”.

The problem there is the “many people actually use them to haul cargo and tools.” That’s the purpose of trucks; hauling cargo and tools, and for that purpose, they’re an appropriate tool. They are not, however, a substitute for “SUV’s and sedans.” Sedans, and SUV’s that are based on a car chassis, can handle well and…

We get it. You don’t like trucks. In a little over a month, you have posted three articles implying trucks are terrible. Don’t buy one.

1. If it spins, wear safety goggles or face shield.

My guess is that Bob’s a Jalopnik reader and knows precisely what he’s getting into.

East Germany was the richest and most developed country in the Eastern Bloc at the time, North Korea is a 3rd world basket case in comparison. The vast majority of the population outside central Pyongyang lacks electricity and running water, and only 3% of their road system is paved, for example. Aside from a few…