The first part sounds an awful lot like the VX220.

I think I was half-asleep when I wrote my hot take - but damn yes you zeroed in on the most important parameter: it’s the price per unit that makes this convincing.

Well fine, except:

So explain to me the appeal of an electric SUV from the people who should be working on a turbine-powered car, or a six-wheeled sedan with a W16, or something.

I looked up the numbers last year sometime. (They’re out there and I can’t be bothered looking them up again, but I think...) Caterham outsells Lotus by roughly 50%.

Right.

The C8 may well have raised the bar.

I have a better idea. Turn the roadways into cages, since that’s where the danger’s coming from, (also pedestrians aren’t farm animals to be corralled this way and that by robots).

If you want to do the deal a bit earlier in the day just stop by the liquor store about 7:30 a.m.

Here’s a pair of great tits.

Read some Lovecraft. Watch some splat movies. Just to prepare yourself for the unspeakable horror which lies in this abyssal list of baby names:

As I reread that last night, the piece that stuck in my mind is that it’s the rich landowners who destroyed the well-managed commons; which actually supports your point “one company comes in and recklessly does something damaging the commons, and another comes in to extort them for it in a predatory fashion. Everyone…

I was wondering who the hey Roderick Bearings is and why you might need to save money for him.

or look at it

It’s like seeing the folds on the backs of some people’s heads. (The bit above their shoulders, because they actually have no neck.)

If you’re driving a car where neither the model nor the manufacturer is named after you, you’re doing ‘fancy’ wrong.

Hey. Yes you. The Tragedy of the Commons was a white-supremacist screed. Please stop invoking it. It makes no sense.

Somehow I don’t think you mean this sort of Chick car

Yup, the faux-luxe/loaded niche, when along came Acura and spoilt it all for them by doing everything better, along with their imitators like Audi and Infiniti.

I’m Gen-X. I started following Jalopnik back in the day because it was a reliable aggregator blog for motoring news and ... the writing helped, and still does.