The wheels and the grill feel like overkill, like at the last minute someone in corporate panicked and demanded “THIS IS A CADILLAC IT NEEDS CHROME DAMNIT” and the designers caved. But otherwise this is a lovely car. The back end is just gorgeous- wish the front end had that level of confidence in simplicity. The…

A lot of folks in the beautiful driftless area in north west wisconsin learned how much the GOP cared about them when the frack sand mines started. The mines were proposed- big open air mines for high-silicate content sand. The local farmers were like “Nope, no good.” And got their towns and counties to kill the…

Having lived in Madison, WI for decades, I can only guess that those parking ticket numbers come from students at UW (which would also explain why so many of them are unpaid) because otherwise, I’m not even sure how you get a parking ticket in this town.

The folks who want to kill these regulations? They don’t live in the city or the suburbs. They live where they’ll never have to breathe the exhaust fumes they’re so happy to inflict on the rest of us. They’d rather sacrifice your air so they can pretend that the last 50 years of automotive development didn’t…

If you didn’t grow up in the 60s and 70s- you know, the automotive glory days before they done stolled the power with them damned environmental bullshits- you might not realize how much better... EVERYTHING is now.

You know what? Good for her.

*le sigh*

My problem with Biden is less his age (and that is a real problem) than the fact that he still thinks that politics works like it did when he was in his 50s. It’s an easy trap to fall into- you get older and the years compress and it’s hard to fathom that the turn of the century was a quarter century ago.

So first, cars last a lot longer than they used to nowadays so the pressure to buy is lower.

On the one hand, I’m kinda happy that Tesla’s performance enhancements are just kinda window dressing and in no way shape or form listen to the wants of performance enthusiasts. Because not every car needs to have a track day ready model. And the number of people who actually want that are pretty slim.

To be fair, ask most people in Indiana (who don’t live in Indianapolis) and they’ll tell you Indiana is a Southern state.

For me it’s between Northern Indiana. For a beautiful area that’s so close to lake Michigan, an area that gets a TON of tourist traffic, it’s where I’ve discovered the most disgusting bathrooms, the least welcoming restaurants and the least quality places to stop, period. To be fair, this pretty much applies to all of…

One of the reasons I’ve been sad that Mercedes cars have sucked so bad lately is that when their cars were basically equal, Hamilton was the one driver who could completely frustrate Verstappen’s tactics. Though to be far at one point the only reason he survived Verstappen’s over aggressive style was the Halo device.

I’d still say for the average buyer it was a simple value proposition, same as with minivans today: if you cost the same or more than an SUV, folks will just buy the SUV because the SUV does all the same stuff and looks cooler. Whether you agree with the fact that it looks cooler is unimportant as the rest of the…

Counterpoint: These are the vehicles that ruined station wagons in the US.
They added power, complexity, fragility and worst of all, cost to what was a good vehicle for hauling the kids to hockey practice.

What’s that, a million bucks so anyone who isn’t completely in the loop on super obscure european cars can look and say “nice mustang.”

Why do they look like slightly nicer 1995 Chrysler concordes and why are we OK with that?

80k is a pretty reasonable request for the damage done to their house. I know this sounds crazy, but some people just want to get things made right. Honestly, I’m surprised their insurance company isn’t the one suing NASA.

The Honda Element has always been an amazing example of what happens when you emphasize the U in SUV. Definitely moreso than it’s platform-mate, the CR-V

Tesla is having a classic problem for an early market leader- They never had to compete with other EVs, so they didn’t have to advertise, they didn’t have to do constant refreshes on their look because they were the market. Their selling point was, “You want an EV that’s good? That’s us.”