Let’s be honest, trying to use government power to divert chip supplies to one manufacturer over another is either crony capitalism or just straight up central planned authoritarianism.

Not gonna lie, the thought of a Ridgeline with a 4.7L V8 derived from the J35 V6 block makes me feel new things in strange places.

The Fit.

absolutely agree.  hp and 0-60 times are getting comical for general market daily drivers.

We would be if we didn’t also demand more power with every iteration of a model. In what universe should a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord have 300 hp? I get it, that’s what consumers want, but I imagine it’s also the reason why we haven’t seen fuel economy numbers improve substantially.

It takes a lot of energy to hurl a 5k pound SUV down the road at 70 mph. I’m not sure physics and economics will allow for too many 30+ mpg SUVs.

I see it as once electric cars become the dominant form of road vehicle, service stations will start to replace the gas pumps with electric charging stations when they go through the decade or so update that the major chains seem to follow.

As someone who is at least partially “Environmentally Minded”, I’m happy to see a push to electric vehicles and a ban on New ICE engine vehicles. The caveat here being that I, like most people, don’t know the full environmental impact of producing batteries and I KNOW that our power stations in the US are still…

Once these states realize how much money they’ll have to spend to make their electric infrastructure robust enough to support widespread BEV use they’ll change their tune REAL quick.

See that beautiful BMW in green with a tan interior at the top of this article?

I’m reminded of when Clarkson-era Top Gear reviewed some kind of car that was trying to be a road-legal F1 car, and James May commented (paraphrase) that, “It’s amazing that there are regulations for where this turn signal light has to be placed, but there’s no restriction on fast the car is allowed to go.”

Communist thinking like this is keeping us from being great again. [crashes schoolbus while commenting]

Shout out to the LS Mafia then...

This is a car blog for car dorks. This is the place for this kind of take.

Hmm. I’m not sure.

Actually, Don Cheadle will take over from Terrence Howard after the first season.

Imagine if buying a computer or phone was like that. “Here, I know you just picked out all of the parts and options exactly as you wanted, but now you have to choose one of these local stores that has almost what you want in stock but not exactly, and it might cost slightly different but you really won’t know until…

Record storage by Salvador Dali...