The downside with the Outback is the rack- if you are an outdoorsy type who has an entire ecosystem of Yakima or Thule accessories that go on your round bar rack that clips onto the roof rails of your Forester, they aren’t going to transfer to the Outback and you’re going to end up spending a mint replacing them. Ask…

Soooo... make the engine smaller. Make it less fast. Focus on making the whole package smaller and more nimble. Give up the 2.7 second 0-60. I would bet that the overall size has a lot more to do with supporting a 500hp car than it does with regulations. You can’t have it all. 

But why limit a system to only be as good as a human with human senses? Human senses are far from the best senses on the planet. And on top of that, you don’t need to train a system to recognize every single thing, because that’s not even how our meat brains work- I don’t need my car to recognize a semi that’s fallen…

And the world responds with a collective “meh.”

I’ll say this for the Kappas- they’re pretty and I bet for normal people doing normal driving I bet they’re an absolute blast. and by normal people I mean people like myself who have zero desire to ever do a track day and mostly just commute to work but occasionally drive up north to go camping or whatever.

I wanna see this in actual daylight rather than a studio because usually this paint looks like mud without carefully directed lighting.

Can we change this to the more needed “Which freeway do you wish was a high-speed rail line?” Because we don’t need to replace every car 1:1 with an electric, we need to make it so we don’t have to use cars for everything.

When you have nearly as many tourists as citizens that’s gonna be a problem though.

I live in an older neighborhood- tons of nice little ranch houses built in the 50s- and my older neighbors have fought the city tooth and nail to keep our street from getting sidewalks because... reasons.

Anything that’s not a Mazda Miata because everything else has totally missed the mark.

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.