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The electric pickup concept vehicle market is heating up full of promises, first with Tesla’s big beef boy pickup concept sketch, then the stylish Rivian R1T concept, and the Bollinger B2 concept, and now there’s the Atlis XT concept…

There’s a whole subculture around GMC motorhomes, and I’ve always wanted to join the weirdos in their fun. This looks like a great ticket in. Nice price all day long. 

A Zero SR will get you 223 miles of range, and do 0-60 in 3.3 seconds, for $16,495.

Bonita Aurelia…

“point and case” makes me stabby

So it’s a chopped Ford Edge on stilts?

This is what we do in the midwest.

Who is pretending that’s the case?

No, that’s not true. And that “model minority” myth is just the kind of racism Asians face on top of being subjected to the same marginalization as other POC. Just because you haven’t seen anti-Asian racism for yourself doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Don’t mention the fact that Asians weren’t historically subjected to slavery, Jim Crow, and anti-black violence.

Toyota Megaweb in Tokyo will let you take a Century for a drive on their closed (low-speed) track. It’s the most luxurious car I’ve ever driven.

Doubletree’s reaction was too little, too late.

I didn’t anyone bought OnStar unless they owned a Cadillac with a landau roof and lived in a Florida retirement home.

That’s got to be Michael “Fux” Fuchs’ car.

I mean this as a compliment—Elizabeth Werth is the most Torchinsky Jalop there is besides Torch himself.

For one thing, he would have been awake because the car would require him to pay attention. No driver aids, no cruise control, manual transmission, no Instagram feed in the dashboard, random creaks and pops keeping him on edge, a funny smell in the headliner making him roll down the window crank every few minutes, and

About 1% of Americans actually tow things regularly, cargo a lot of gear, and go offroad*. SUVs and crossovers accounted for 47% of all passenger vehicles sold.

How about we stop with the “protecting tiny animal” narrative and be honest? These actions are about protecting the whole food chain. We’ve all learned from grade school about how the big fish eats the little fish, bear eats the big fish, etc.