To make a FWD EV, you have to make powered shafts that turn. You also have to deal with all that torque and are asking a lot from your tires. A rear drive wheel does not have to turn. The two drive wheels will always be parallel. That’s much easier to build. That also means your steering rack up front doe not have to…

Toyota made a big bet on Hydrogen. It is very difficult for large corporations to walk away from big bets. This is what one would expect from a very large established player in an industry in transition. The designs are not groundbreaking and are really generic placeholders. The overall approach is familiar. It is…

Please, oh please, make a Nissan Leaf funny car. 

As a person who rents many cars on a state government contract, I’m something of a connoisseur of the modern shitbox car. This is one of the worst. It’s better than a renegade, but that’s about it. Pro tip-go for the Hyundai Elantra. That’s a great little car for the money.  

This is where the electric car market needs to go next. A cheap, light, fun little shitbox. No big range numbers- but simple, cheap and light on its feet.

Needs side pipes and a wizard airbrushed on the side. 

I just ran one out on Edmunds for grins, it’s TMV (for what it’s worth) came back at 45 and some change for an AWD GT1 well equipped. The thing about many european brands is that when you start adding basic options, they get expensive very fast. The 2013 3 series I bought used did not have the tech package, so it did…

I got a used 3 series about a year ago. Just found the button for the heated steering wheel yesterday. I didn’t even know it had a heated steering wheel. I found it while crawling around the floor of the drivers side looking for the OBD port. 

It was the Toyota Landcruiser wagon, FJ-55. I saw one on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. There was an old one parked behind the house on my way to school. I used to walk home through the alley just to get a look at it.

As soon as I had real money to buy a car I bought one, It was the FJ-62. The last year before they…

Would it have killed them to run a picture of the P1 car he won with?