I could stack my wife’s A3 on top my F150 and it would weigh less than the Hummer EV.

You bring up a point, but it wasn’t maintenance work that brought the bridge down. It was a design error compounded by lack of maintenance work. The additional point load of the construction materials vs. the off balance weight of vehicles on the other side of the bridge didn’t help and likely caused the failing point.

“Remember that bridge in Minnesota which collapsed due to maintenance work—the construction equipment and backed-up cars’ weight was too much for the bridge and down it went. Just think how if the cars were Hummers, less than half that number of vehicles would cause that bridge to collapse. How “good” of us.”

Echo, echo:

Even though I’m typical not one for more taxes, once you get above a certain HP, that become a luxury. If a business needs more power to tow something, that’s also something that should be taxes because more stress is being put on the infrastructure.

9000 fucking pounds? Jesus Christ we can’t even do EVs right. Every day I’m more and more convinced that we flew too close to the sun a long time ago but convinced ourselves that the horrible burns were a nice tan. Fuck it all, no engines over 200 hp without paying for a more comprehensive license and any vehicle over…

PHEV Maverick with a rear electric motor is my dream car right now. Give me enough EV range to get to and from work (~30mi) and AWD and I will be scrambling to get one

I’d also like to add to that a bid for a Maverick ST. Make it the only sport-truck on the market.

Maverick Plug-In

The Ridgeline has always been relatively expensive and niche. It starts over $37k. Beating it should be pretty easy.

Versa 2331
Spark 278
Soul 14124
Fit 0
Mirage 4916

Beating the Ridgeline and also the Ranger seems like the bigger deal. The Honda has been around awhile and has a great reputation. This is really an exercise in how many people want a domestic pickup that is smaller than the current mid-size range (which is what 1/2 tons were 20 years ago), and don’t give a shit…

Perhaps that’s what he was counting on

To be fair, in Europe, Skoda is there for that. Pretty much a VW in disguise at a lower price point

This will likely not be a popular take. But China’s zero-covid policy isn’t going to work. Not with how transmissible variant there now. And not with a population that has far, far less overall immunity. There is starting to be a pattern showing where countries that held out for the longest time at staving off the…

Hyundia and Kia come to mind already doing that.

Yeah. I agree with this, generally, but we’re in a weird state right now where we don’t have the supply bandwidth for low margin high volume production. Furthermore when one of the largest manufacturers decides to leave the largest (by volume) segment… this can definitely become a problem.

1st: I heard something interesting the other day from an economist.

OK, it’s no longer sold, but. This smug prick should get the ELR on the list!

The MERCEDES MAYBACH G650 in gold chrome. Why would you want to do this to your child?