Crazy rich people story. when my aunt got engaged, her husband to be bought her one of these as an engagement gift. And my aunt, bless her magnificent sense of style, thanked him very much but let him know that he had bought the wrong mercedes convertible. She had always wanted the old style, gorgeous, yup, that’s a…

OK, so you’ve moved here from somewhere that had public options for mid-priced long distance travel and functional public transit for local stuff. So owning a fun car wasn’t really a problem.

Figure that range has to do with China seriously building out their charging infrastructure. They’ve built a crap ton of public chargers, which is easy to do when your government can just say, “you are going to build a crap ton of public chargers.”

Twitter’s problem is that it’s extremely popular with journalists and politicians who want to be seen by journalists but no one else. And so it’s importance is really overinflated- reporters see what other reporters and politicians are doing on twitter and report on it and this makes it seem like twitter is the most…

I do outdoorsy stuff that involves roof racks so my Outback is about as tall a vehicle as I can deal with anymore- loading a 70 pound canoe up onto an SUV sucks, and tying them down isn’t fun either.

Because automotive performance is more than just “stuff big engine in big comfy truck.”

I had a 76 cutlass supreme and I will point out 2 issues that a driver of modern cars wouldn’t know about:
1: Those doors. They are soooo long that they make opening them in a crowded parking lot difficult- like, you can open the door but what you end up with is a tiny crack that slowly widens someplace far behind…

Less a type of car than a look, but here goes:

Except for one thing: our middle aged Gen Xer hates the trunk. She can’t fit that cool MCM chair she found at the thrift shop in the trunk, it doesn’t hold her bike and it gives her nowhere to sit and change her shoes after a ride. She ends up with a crossover because that crossover makes it easy to go to IKEA with no…

4-door hatchbacks need to make a return. Not wagons, not tall wagons, just good old 4-door hatchbacks. I think the sedan is dying for a reason, and that reason is, trunks are stupid and inefficient. SUVs and crossovers get bought because we all need a car that will do everything and that big ol’ hatch makes them crazy…

I mean, that’s the new mercedes AMG thingy...

I mean, we pretty much did get rid of them. And what’s left, leaf blowers and yard tools are getting phased out pretty quickly.

Uh, where do you get 70?

Thank god someone finally made a controllable, comfy 700hp truck. I mean, sure, it’s going to be 70 in Wisconsin in November this week but thank god for that 700hp comfy, controllable truck. The west is burning up faster than it can grow back, Florida is getting hit with bigger and bigger storm surges but finally,…

I don’t mean to sound harsh, it’s just that projects like this are bullshit. It’s easy to build a $3,000,000 car. Because you have no limitations and you can do whatever you want. I’m no longer impressed by these things because you can’t push the envelope if there is effectively no envelope to push.

I knew a guy who had one of those, took it to the dealership and had the holes for the front licence plate removed because in Wisconsin, he was able to convince the DMV that since it didn’t have holes he didn’t have to have a front license plate.

The Chevy Monza I had in high school was an absolutely gorgeous car- the lines were so pretty, that front end was sooo cool to look out over. Just a really beautiful little car. Probably one of the prettiest cars GM has ever designed.

I’m sorry but I just can’t. This is the dumbest idea in the history of stupidly expensive cars. I haven’t had a visceral reaction like this to something in a long time, but this thing just makes me angry. Angry that it exists. Angry that almost a billion dollars will be spent buying these useless things, angry at the…

It was, but that was also part of it’s... charm? It was a very basic, very utilitarian little box.

Because there are a lot of folks like me who don’t really need an open bed but do want a cargo area that’s easy to sweep out. Side note: why does my Outback have a carpeted floor in the cargo area? Why does it have a soft fabric easily scratched and snagged headliner? That’s what was great about the Element- throw in…