The feeling I get watching Grand Tour is... like seeing bands on the state fair circuit. Like, they used to be a thing- “Ladies and Gentlemen, BADFINGER”- but now they’re old, they’re just doing the hits (look, Jeremy’s hitting something with a hammer! And there’s James being Pedantic!) because that’s all the…

Oh, we’ll know. Eventually.

OK, correct me if I’m wrong, and I know this the the brave new world of Uber losing money on every ride and crypto and NFTs, so maybe I’m behind the curve on current economic theory. BUT, If you’re not making money on sales, shouldn’t you just raise the price so that you are, in fact, making money?

I know, I know. But it’s an industry specific word and you just grit your teeth through it the first 20,000 times you hear it. After a while, it just becomes natural.

I would love to have almost any of of those small sub-15k chinese EVs as a daily commuter, as a car I could let my kiddo use to drive to school. I hate that all we get are gigantic monster cars.

My best guess is that these NYC trucks are designed to handle much larger bins than our residential bins but otherwise, yeah, this is how we get our trash picked up everywhere else.

So you’re saying that a truck without solid axles and lockers and that’s burdened with all manner of electronic traction controls can still be driven in snow? dear god in heaven what have we done?

I’m a designer- sure, I’m just an advertising designer, but one of the biggest lessons in design works across all forms of design- If you want to think “out of the box,” it’s important to understand the box. To know why this box exists. To understand that there are reasons countless other designers have created this…

that one just sailed right over your head, didn’t it?

Until you powerslide into a parking lot glacier.

Wrong. Not driving always beats driving in snow. And it’s less expensive.

The hillbilly halfwits I had in mind were the Graham family. Billy “do as I say” Graham and his reprehensible son Franklin “not as I do” Graham.

Oh, that’s right- “no fault divorce makes divorce too easy” says someone who’s never gone through the agony that is divorce in America.

Straight, cisgendered folks who think that this has nothing to do with you: Please understand. These same folks will come for your birth control. They will come for your ability to hook up with randos. They will come for you.

The difference between what it’s worth to you and what it’s worth to me is the basis of human enterprise.

When Indianapolis decided to turn the old, disused Monon train line into a bike path, I remember people absolutely freaking out that it would become a crime superhighway to the suburbs. Ignoring the fact that Indianapolis already has several highways and freeways from downtown to the suburbs.

Honestly, same. I’m the same age as you and I don’t want to live in an apartment. I like my house. My suburb got swallowed up by the city decades ago. But, My neighborhood has decent bus lines- it used to have like 3 stops but post covid it’s only got one, which is still only a few blocks from my house. The city has…

I remember when cars absolutely represented freedom. But it was a lie back then just like today. Yes, a car could get you out of your parent’s house, leave a bad situation, go somewhere new. BUT these are all things you can do without cars. It’s just that, we built a country in which it’s nigh impossible to do unless…

The... good? news- if things continue the way they’re going, that massive cultural shift will happen sooner than expected.

Of all the scams ever pulled on the American people, linking cars to freedom has to be the biggest. Cars aren’t freedom. They’re expensive and the damage that having “Just Drive” as the default answer to every problem has caused so many more self perpetuating problems.