Reverse: To those of us who weren’t alive for the Cold War, Valentina Tereshkova is known as the craven figurehead in Russia’s Duma who’s trying to constitutionally turn Vladimir Putin into a czar for life. File this one to “Russia ruins everything”, I guess.

As a guy right in the Model 3's target demographic, I’m just salivating over buying an EV from a company whose design ideas and manufacturing practices seem to demonstrate open contempt for its customers.

We can agree to disagree. Despite loving the look of a stock NA Miata, my knee-jerk reaction to this was “for reasons unknown and baffling, I don’t hate it.”

No.

And then there is that 5-seat center row’s fickle cousin, the 4-seat center row. More humane than 5, perhaps, but the armrest between the two middle seats is a real moral ambiguity. 

Sounds like it’s big 2-row wagon time. 

Cutlines, and whether they’re integrated into the body (e.g. did Design and Manufacturing talk to each other?).

It’s a Mini-Comtesse! I believe there’s a Jason Drives episode where he takes the Lane Museum’s example for a spin.

Just Leafs, but in my shopping for used Bolts I’ve found that for other models, there are either equivalent apps or just better ways to get the same info. More importantly (as a lot of folks on this thread have pointed out), the whole “catastrophic battery degradation” thing is exclusively a Leaf phenomeon. For any…

LeafSpy exists for this exact purpose; you can get all the data you could possibly need on a Leaf battery’s true state. $30 gets you the app and an OBDII scanner. Compared to $300 for the PPI on a gas-powered car, it’s a steal.

Neutral: Adam Ismail. Detailed synopses, deeper dives, and well-reasoned takes for the Morning Shift? Sign me up.

A $30 sheet of UV-resistant acrylic, some glue, and a dremel will also do the trick; replace the window itself, instead of the whole top. I just did mine (shameless pic below).

Extend that to any sensor which gives your engine critical inputs. Cleaning a MAF/MAP sensor takes 5 minutes and is always worth it. 

If you’re going to put a 2-door car on baby duty, it might as well be a properly ludicrous machine. Which is to say: a lightly-used Nissan GTR has big doors and can swallow a car seat.

Seriously. At 5'3" , Elizabeth is at “normal person” height; it's a truck problem, not a her problem. If I, a 6'0 dude, find stock truck beds and cabs too tall to load, something has gone very wrong.

Honest question, how much of a bucket list item should “driving an old-ass car” be for a gearhead? I just realized that the oldest car I’ve driven is an NA Miata, which is *checks notes* not that old.

This. Whenever I’m driving a car other than mine, the first thing I hunt down is the button that turns the screens and backlights off. My Nissan can black out even more than Saab’s night mode (literally everything except dash warning lights, of which there are...currently too many), and this easily became my favorite…

*remembers that David’s engineering job at Jeep was cooling systems*

Seems like running a lower ratio of ethylene glycol to water would have addressed David’s issues, at least this weekend. It’s accepted wisdom in my own corner of the automotive universe (the Miata galaxy) to run a higher proportion of water to antifreeze than recommended in the manual specifically to compensate for…

If you’re not taking other deductions, you need to be making at least $66k/year to get the full $7,500 rebate. The median household in America doesn’t make that kind of money.