I’ll take it one step further and say this: You know how we always complain about how Europe has all these cool as hell little cars we never get here in the US because “they just won’t sell in America?”

oh definitely.

After years as a retro-grouch who didn’t want none of them danged safety nannies on mah car and manual transmissions only thankyouverymuch...

And it turns out that CVTs are not terrible. They work. You don’t really notice them.

The Subaru Outback.

I am still utterly unable to wrap my head around a 7k rooftop tent.

The problem is, we keep looking at electric cars as just extensions of what we already have, so, since we already have super fancy hypercars, what happens if you just replace the drivetrain with electric?

I think the problem is, that as long as you are a reasonably competent automaker, making a $2.2 million dollar hypercar really isn’t hard- You have access to the best of everything and so it’s going to be a stunning-to-look-at jaw-dropping-to-drive piece of art. Just like all the other 2.2 million dollar rolling…

As a child of a blue collar family in the 70s, I can say that the love for these trucks is extremely misplaced. Were they good work vehicles? Sure. Were they good all around family vehicles? not even a little. They were loud, uncomfortable and they got horrible gas mileage. Trucks in general are terrible cars. They…

Dan Savage of all people pointed out one of the biggest benefits of expanded public transit for city governments- it allows you to tell people who complain about traffic to shut up and take public transit.

It’s a good start. It’d be great if we could also get state and local governments to factor in planning for public transit for new neighborhoods and start looking at ways to require that new neighborhoods be walkable for basics like groceries and school. Basically, start requiring that we build neighborhoods for…

Or, the reason is that American exceptionalism makes us exceptionally gullible. We all know that we’re all just one good idea away from being a billionaire. We all know that we can make deals far better than any company we work for so why would we need unions? We all know that our healthcare is much better in the…

The Original Pontiac Aztec concept was truly ahead of it’s time, a vehicle for an emerging market that does outdoors stuff but doesn’t want an SUV or a pickup. Hey look! it’s a 2022 outback in 1999!

Put me at a race track or a drag strip and I will absolutely geek out over the amazing sounds of engines. But the second you are on the street in a residential neighborhood, that same amazing engine now sounds like shit.

Nope. An 85 celebrity with a 2.8l V6 with a functional stock muffler is magnificent compared to an I6 in a 90s BMW with a loud non-muffler.

Literally no one wants to be forced to hear your engine and thus, they all sound awful to anyone who is not you, the owner of said magnificent engine. Like I said, it doesn’t…

If you are anyone but the owner of the engine in question, the answer is ALL OF THEM. They all sound bad. Trust me, NO ONE wants to hear the sweet sound of your mustang with loud pipes, your harley, your Audi A3 with a freeflow muffler and a pop and crackle tune. Your fartcan Hondas, your italian exotics, your…

So what you’re saying is that you’re incapable of walking a few blocks and following a schedule. Even if it could save you thousands of dollars a year.

Indianapolis is actually a pretty cool place and former gov Mitch Daniels used to bike past my parent’s house all the time.

OK, so about that- Years ago in indianapolis, the city proposed that they take an old, disused set of train tracks and turn it into a bike/walking path. You would have thought that the city proposed to create an open-air drug and unlicensed gun market.