I bet the LAPD didn’t pay out a single penny in compensation and got any lawsuits dismissed by claiming qualified immunity.

You forgot to include “Dealership owners are so conservative that they make the NADA annual convention look like GrindrCon CPAC”

Imagine the kind of R&D and EV production that could be made with $10b. 

GM during the strike: We CaNt AfFoRd WhAt ThE uNiOn WaNts!

Sir, your Bolt EV is approaching its 10,000 mile service. We Recommend the following services:

The NADA’s aversion to EVs isn’t really about EVs per-se. There are three key issues:

The baby elephant suffered a bit of road rash, and was referred to a pachydermatologist.

Jalopnik, knowing that today’s kids love to dump all over Boomers

Can only speak for me, but... I enjoyed it. I didn’t “hype” (I’ve grown out of that, I find that I enjoy games a lot more if I’m not expecting The Greatest Game EVAR!”), bought it at launch, and played it for 170 hours. And then I moved on to one of the many other big releases that came out at the same time. (just…

“Maybe if cops gave appropriate tickets and people lost their licenses for unsafe driving we could have nice things.”

My normal street parking spot gives me a Left on Red followed immediately by another Left on Red on the way to work. Not a Dad, but it makes me giggle to an unnecessary degree when I get yelled at for doing it by other drivers, which happens often. I even start smiling when I make the first turn in the morning because…

As a frequent user of Right on Red, begrudgingly I agree.

The older I get and the more I see people do stupid shit, the more I appreciate laws like no right turn on red. If 1 in 100 drivers are incapable of safely making a right turn, it’s still too many and will eventually result in unnecessary accidents.

He could possibly be an elder Gen X’er....mid 50s. Some of them got into the lead paint/gas.

We have reached the point of capitalism where we’re literally out here donating money to corporations for no reason. 

This. The Jetta used to be a quasi-upmarket alternative to the Camcord twins but has since become a fleet special. The GTI/R have gone up in price but their interiors have gone downmarket, even with the “screen is king” approach. The id.4 has odd cost-cutting measures and is not as competitive as it needs to be.

Is VW no longer competitive because of costs or because they have a completely uninviting lineup of cars?

Here’s my take on VW: They simply don’t make that many interesting vehicles anymore. They used to make sort of quirky and obviously very German looking cars and were able to differentiate themselves from the others. But now they make vehicles like the Atlas, which looks more or less like a Ford Explorer or any number…

I wouldn’t use Italy as a barometer of how we’re doing re: fossil fuel reduction. They’re led by fascists so of course they’re into keeping the status quo for businesses (if fascism = capitalist dictatorship, as some have suggested).

To the Japanese (and most of the rest of the world), Americans being freaked out by boobs but excited by bullets is weird.