Any and all modern trucks. Our kids are going to look back at these bloated monstrosities and they’re going to look at us and say what the actual fuck were you thinking? Why were you justifying this thing to commute to work?

I’ll disagree simply because they’ll never make it to the crusher- local taxi companies have discovered that Tesla 3s make awesome cabs and they run them into the ground- when they’re done with them there’s nothing left to crush.  Which is kinda awesome. 

Second gen Amigo was kinda awesome. I had one and it was fun to drive, good on the freeway and good enough on forest roads to show me the better looking parts of the Cascades. 

ohmyGAWD just buy an outback. If you need extra cargo space buy a Yakima Rocket box for the roof. Bam. Done. Easy.

I mean you can recharge them. 

It seems like more than a run for the money- while the Tesla is “faster,” the iX seems to be a much better place to be stuck for a day. In the end, that’s what it all comes down to- which one do you want to be stuck in for your commute or for long drives? Both look silly- the Tesla like something from woody allen’s…

But it’s true, not snark. At a certain point we have to make the hard decisions, like, a 4000 pound, 19 foot long vehicle is sub-optimal for commuting into a congested city and we can’t keep making allowances for said vehicles just because we’re afraid of inconveniencing someone.

But it’s also possible for people who do good things to be complete assholes. There’s nothing wrong with looking back and saying, Y’know, Ford’s anti-semitism was really, really bad. Even at the time it was bad. He did great things but he was also a rabid antisemite. So, he was complicated, just like most people in…

Dan Savage of all people had the greatest argument of all time for improving public transit: It allows city governments to tell people who complain about the traffic to shut up, because we built a better solution. Don’t like the traffic? Take the train.

So follow your thinking: what happens when more cars get onto a road? Congestion. What generally happens when you widen a road is you get at best a few years of lower congestion before EVERYONE discovers the new route and your right back to where you were originally, but instead of 6 lanes of congested or stopped…

Last weekend I did a last minute camping trip to do some mountain biking up north. Grabbed my tent and my gear, tossed it in my car, strapped the bike on the back and up north I went. My campsite was GORGEOUS. picturesque, about as nice as a drive in campsite could possibly be. To my left was a family in an RV, to my…

They’re a road hazard if you drive like an idiot. 

The UAW is a corrupt mess. But, we need unions more than ever. Sooooo... there’s that. 

Alternate alternate idea: don’t shit on other people’s idea of a good vacation.

OK, I know this isn’t the point, but look at that illustrated interior- the wheel arches are metal- no carpet. Gonna bet the floor is metal and the headliner is washable. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE modern wagon makers (SUBARU I’M LOOKING AT YOU) bring this back- Heck SUV makers, you pay attention as well- The utility of the…

I think Volvo is just seeing the writing on the wall sooner than most.
The meat (and dairy) industry (from which leather comes) is an environmental disaster and lots of folks are starting to move away from meat (and dairy) every day or even meat a couple times a week. Meat and dairy are an industry that’s going to…

Volvo will introduce a new wool-blend option

Wow. Thank God we finally have a broncoraptor. I mean of all the things Ford needs to worry about, this is probably the greatest issue and the one that the most consumers have been clamoring for. I know that I was not sure I could go on living (if you want to call it that) in a broncoraptorless world.

“reviewers say it’s a decent amount of fun”

On the one hand, I want to see her thrown in jail forever for this callous disregard for human life.