This time, Miata is not the answer. Instead it’s “Porsche… there is no substitute.”

There is absolutely no reason for an autonomous electric car to be shaped like that.

Not without the hardware to do it, they’re not.

Good catch. 

All American products from WWII should also be off-limits. Firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo, experimenting on our own troops with chemical weapons based on their race, internment of Japanese Americans, dropping nuclear weapons on two cities filled with innocent civilians…

Tell me you’re white without telling me you’re white.

It’s not a defect, it’s a value-added feature for extra rarity!

Is it just me, or is there something kind of nostalgic, even satisfying, about a good old-fashioned manufacturing screwup?

Practical battery technology wasn’t even possible in a laboratory setting until the 1970s at the earliest. Electric cars were never going to dominate the ICE in the early 20th century.

The Mercedes OM617 inline-5 diesel.

Sadly it’s an obsolete car, with less range than a Chevy Spark EV and no particular thing that it’s good at. It’s not luxurious, it’s not a truck or van, it’s not sporty, not good-looking, and there’s nothing special that would make it collectible. I guess it’s got those fold-down trays.

Wife cool and smart. Wife have good taste.

That’s how they do it in the Citroën Ami Cargo, so it’s probably a good idea

Hear me out here: Rally-spec ECOVan

It’s really hard to beat Adam’s recommendation, because a Stinger is such a good choice.

Nope.

It certainly says something about the idiotic “yoke” that they yanked it out of there and put a proper steering wheel in for the track.

Good point, I think that’s what I meant by “skirting the law” rather than actually breaking it. Definitely unethical, though.

Putting this question (“what’s your desired salary?”) on your application is not just a big red flag, it’s skirting the law in several states.

I think you’ve nailed it. They’ve found a way to run a taxicab service without purchasing 50 medallions.

Right there they’ve just saved themselves about $50 million, if that’s true.