So what this says is Musk is now bored with Tesla. He’s tried to spice things up, but really, the daily grind of running a car company that actually has to behave like a car company and do car company stuff like refresh old models, advertise, have quality control and message discipline is HARD. It was so much more fun…

In a way it’s kinda satisfying to see boomers being forced to live in the world they made- they’re the generation that worshiped cars and saw cars as freedom, and they legislated a world where that is reality. Boomers cut spending on public transit, cut spending on infrastructure, cut spending on schools (which leads…

100%. Around here, you can still get a crazy price for a used Element with 200,000+ miles on the odometer. But only bring it back if you can keep the size roughly the same- it’s small size was it’s best feature.

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder and again, maybe it really sings when you see it in person. From the 3/4 front view, the cabin somehow looks enormous and bulbous. From the side the cabin looks comically small. From the back it looks top-heavy. The lipstick tube headlights are overwrought. This will sound…

Maybe you have to see it in person to get the spectacular? ‘Cause in the pictures it looks ill-proportioned and a bit awkward.

Meeshach Taylor once said that if poor people could afford fur coats, we’d call them eye-sores. That comes to mind when I look at this poorly built, butt-ugly vehicle that’s going to fetch a massive price just because it’s rich people stuff.

Seriously, I have seen better interiors on homemade #vanlife builds.

Remember when BMWs were understated performance icons that stood in clean and simple contrast to the chrome and tangerine gimmicky overstuffed nonsense of American cars?

OK, clarification: Donald Trump has no policies or policy ideas. He has vague ideas, mostly bad ones. Like maybe we could expose our guts to the sun to kill covid. He is however surrounded by really dangerous people who have policies, and those people know they can get him to sign off on anything if they just suck up…

Lance Armstrong’s biggest problem was Lance Armstrong. He was a vindictive asshole. IF lance had not threatened other teammates like he did, if he’d been a nice guy instead of the giant asshole he was, if he’d just ignored Greg LeMond instead of teasing him and (probably) getting trek to spike the lemond brand, if he…

Um, hold on.

People hate the ridgeline because it’s actually focused on what truck owners really do, which is drive on roads to the office and only occasionally haul bags of mulch or groceries. The ridgeline is the truck equivalent of passing full-suspension bikes on a 10 year old hardtail.

Thank god someone is finally making a truck that can handle what trucks do 99% of the time, which is drive around off road. Way too much focus these days on the rare moments when a truck is commuting to work. /S>

One of the things that’s most telling about Verstappen is that when he was winning, his team was content to just soak up his bullshit and his rants and bullying. And now that he’s not, they seem to have ZERO patience for him. I think he legitimately forgot that what goes up can also come down.

We need to strike the word “accident” from our legal system. It’s not an accident, it’s negligent operation. Accident sounds like “ooops, my bad” when what really happened is, you were operating a 2-3 ton vehicle and were not taking that action seriously. You hit someone not because they came out of nowhere but…

at least they aren’t bringing this lil’ nightmare back:

can you imagine riding on one of these things? No. No you cannot.

If performance were all that matters, no one would buy cruisers and everyone would ride high performance race replicas- after all, they perform infinitely better than a cruiser.

Passing over something fun because you’re worried about what you’re friends will think is the definition of doing it wrong.

I’ve loved the idea of convertible pickups since I first saw the original convertible Dodge Dakota and thought... Holy crap, it’s a convertible that takes none of the practicality away from the vehicle.

Right, but if you’re looking at this you aren’t looking at a GS or a dirt bike.