No worries. At this point we’re all seeing it in our heads like a Pavlovian response.

I’ll bet the exoskeleton would be far easier to engineer and build. Bending and welding flat plates of steel is going to be way simpler to engineer and produce than the complicated unibody shapes commonly used today. Even if cold rolled steel and impact rated glass is a more expensive material, the savings on…

Seeing a prototype on the road is not the same thing as seeing a production vehicle that was promised to be out last year. And before you mention the pandemic and supply chain issues, remember that Musk unveiled the Cybertruck 8 and months into the pandemic when supply chain constraints were well in effect, and still…

No roasting here. There’s a reason they keep trying to reboot the series with different hosts.

Even worse, it gets shut down because people constantly wax nostalgic about the old one. So, it’s not a Ferrari and it’s not viewed with the rose-tinted perspective the past. Sadly it never stood a chance no matter how good it is.

Agreed. When you can get a 40mpg 4dr pickup, the case for a tiny econobox just isn’t there. Sure, a Spark is cheaper out the door than a Maverick hybrid, but the mileage isn’t, the resale isn’t, and the general practicality is gone.

Might as well be.

Bullet hole stickers, something so ridiculous they make me wish the holes were real.

Since the throttle on modern cars are drive-by-wire, the cruise control isn’t mechanically operated anymore. I’ll bet it’s possible to just swap out some module and make it work (at least on some cars).

That is some excellent wordplay right there.

Stories pertaining to public transportation have been frequent on Jalopnik for a long time. 

I’m not so sure about that article. In the US an e-Transit starts at $47k while a regular one starts at $36k and diesel isn’t even an option. A company putting a quarter million miles on their van will easily save more than the $11k premium in fuel and maintenance.

5th gear:

There aren’t a whole lot of Tesla stans within the Jalopnik commentariat.

I made it through the entire article. It’s still a silly take. If he was intending to write a love letter to a loved piece of familiarity, he should have said so rather than use a bunch of misguided cultural analysis to make such an absurd assertion.

Yeah. There are so many irrefutable arguments to the author’s take that my head is about to explode.

It wasn’t a myth for me. I had a ‘95 Blazer and it was an unmitigated disaster.

Yeah but you guys could have bought a loaded VW All Track with a MANUAL TRANSMISSION for under $30K and you didn’t do that either.

Ordering a car you have never driven is in line with another rule I have, which is to never buy a new car in its 1 year of production.