If you’re ever in Indianapolis, do yourself a favor and drive to the really sketchy part of town, drive under the seating and track and into the Indy 500 infield, where you will find the Indy 500 museum. The cars contained within are... insane. I mean, they are beautiful in ways modern cars just can’t be, but they are…

“I don’t think anyone does that on purpose,” Verstappen said, referring to the illegal cars of his competitors. “It’s more because of this Sprint format, where you only have one practice session where you try to nail everything. Once you are in the wrong, there’s nothing you can do.”

I think what Verstappen said…

This is what you quickly notice when you ride your bike- WHY is it so hard to get to the damned grocery? Who the fuck designed these roads? Why did I buy a house way the fuck out here? Who needs a vehicle that fucking big to get to work? Why did I buy a vehicle that fucking big to get to work?

with a 900 mile range, refueling doesn’t really matter. The number of people who regularly drive 900 miles in a day is vanishingly small- that’s 15 hours behind the wheel.

former resident. I earned it.

Yeah but if you’re driving over 900 miles in a day you are WAY out of the norm. No matter how much range you cram into a battery there’s always someone who’ll complain they need 100 more miles.

I’ll say this- a 900 mile EV would be a game changer in a lot of ways- Like, only having to charge your car once a month would be pretty awesome.Kinda like, just drive where ever, charge when it’s available, no need for fast charging.

Maybe they know “Toyota promises affordable 300-mile EV” won’t click as well as “Toyota promises 900-mile EV.” So in a way, we have to thank them.

I feel like you’d have to get every state to do this to make it work. Like, Illinois can have the toughest gun laws in the country but if right across the border is Indiana, where gun laws are “wut we don’t care”, it doesn’t matter. Or like polution, where Wisconsin can try and be tough on people dumping in lake…

The Dodge Aspen gets my vote. It’s not obviously ugly- look at it and you’ll say, “Oh c’mon, it’s not that bad...” but look at it closer- every angle, every part of this car is just soul sucking. It’s like someone took a Nova and said, make it worse in every possible way, but do it in a subtle way, so the horror of it…

Weird hill to die on but OK. Clearly, when we referred to hoosier racing slicks, we were referring to a specific brand of racing tire and not making fun of the rednecks running bald tires. You got me, As a teen I and my friends had an intimate knowledge of tires, as one does as a teen in the 80s.

you can’t throw a bike or a washing machine in a frunk.

Anecdotally, it seems like a lot of people are just fed up with Musk’s antics and now that there’s valid competition, they have no problem going somewhere else. Just saw a model S with the license plate “MSK SCKS” and I’ve seen a few other teslas around town with a ‘I bought it before Musk was a problem” type bumper st…

It’s the whole system blowing her off. The cops, the courts, you name it. Because women are hysterical, and really, they just get so worked up over things and honestly he’s just standing in her yard, maybe she should just close the blinds.

Right but are people buying tesla sedans because they love sedans, or are they buying them because for the past 10 years they were the best choice for an electric vehicle? As in, “I’d rather have an electric Mazda CX50 but since that doesn’t exist as an electric I’ll go with a model 3...”

Um, welcome to the wonderful world of boys will be boys? Our system sucks at protecting women. Male cops show up, blow off women’s concerns as “she’s being hysterical” or show up and talk to the man, who’s being calm, as the woman is in tears and decide “she’s being hysterical, let’s listen to the calm guy.”

I have to disagree on the idea that ford half-assed it with the E-150- they know what their customers want (an F-150) and they delivered that. If you want an f-150, you don’t want someone to rethink it. You want something as f-150 as possible.

I cannot believe that what EV buyer want is sedans. Mainly because no one else wants to buy sedans. Unless EV buyers are a super special subset of car buyer, they want something with 5 doors. But they’ll take a sedan because it’s closer to that goal than a pickup.

Nah, if you grew up in Indiana in the 70s and 80s, Hoosier racing slicks was slang for bald tires. But shit, I just grew up there, what do I know?

Maybe what he’s getting at is less “restraint” than... dirtbagishness.