For example, if you have a car that’s worth $10,000 and needs $5,000 in repairs, historically that’s probably not worth it.

I’m in the fix-it-until-it-can’t-be-fixed-no-more camp. Having grown up in a family of auto mechanics, I am used to the treadmill of “buy an old car with some life left in it, repair it until something major breaks, then dump it and start the process again.” When I was young, we never spent time or money on stereos…

Exactly. I wonder how many spectators would die in a F1 race, if the “organizers” would allow people to sit right at the edge of the race track at turn one, or let them stand on the track at a DRS zone.

And baffling. The very last thing I ever want is the first of anything off the line. No, I really don’t want to be a paying beta tester, thanks. Get the bugs out over a couple years and a hundred thousand units or so, and then we will talk.

Meanwhile, flippers online are trying to get a quarter of a million bucks and up on an unproven EV from an unproven company.

Is it possible his approval rating is tanking because people don’t understand how our government works so they buy into promises a Presidential candidate makes but actually has no power to deliver on because the role of the president is to appoint a cabinet and sign laws passed by congress?

The North American Ford Escort LX Sport of the mid 1990s:

Chevy Citation X-11

What’s stupid is that Toyota could make the GX 460 look tough like a G-Wagon or Defender and people would buy it for that reason (in addition to it being a great car). Instead they make it look like what someone in 1990 would think a luxury SUV from 2030 would look.

It’s always projection with these fuckers.

Stroker Ace: such a turd. Burt Reynolds in that chicken suit...do anything for money.

Cannonball Run 2

I might make a bunch of burner accounts just so I can star this comment more for it’s accuracy. 

I would argue that “Stroker Ace” isn’t a car movie (it’s barely a movie at all, but that’s beside the point....), but is a...ahem...”comedy” set in NASCAR. It’s basically “Talladega Nights” without the joy.

I don’t disagree with you, the first manufacturer that brings a sporty or crossover EV platform to market in the sub $30G price point will not only liberate an entire generation from the pump, but will accelerate the adoption of EV transportation industry wide. Undoubtedly, we’re in the beginning of a massive…

What do you want? Avg new car price is $40k now. Bolt is 3/4 that. So is a Leaf. And Mini E.

Pretty much this

Right - it’s only cancel culture if you like the thing being “cancelled.”  When you’re fine with the thing going away, it’s “the marketplace of ideas.”

“Cancel culture” is just a term Republicans made up because it’s starting to affect them. Whenver the church or “moral” group calls for boycotting they never call it cancel culture. Remember when relgious nuts burned the Beatles records becasue John Lennon said “we’re more popular than Jesus”?