I’m in MA and while certainly removal vans are a thing, I’d say less than half the funeral homes have them. This is in part due to MA laws regarding vehicles registered as hearses. Any vehicle used to transport a body needs to be registered as a hearse, which is normal, but if a vehicle is registered as a hearse it’s…

There’s roughly a half dozen main coachbuilders still operating in the States, though they basically fall under two parent companies.

I’m not talking about the lap in the video. The fastest lap by the fastest Cayenne is a 7:59, which puts it behind the Stelvio and waaaaaay behind the RS Q8. Just sayin.

What about a minivan without the roof and just window covers

By “does that well” do you mean “does that 17 seconds slower than the competition?”

If coachbuilders can order it at the correct length straight from Rivian then absolutely, problem solved (the length problem anyway). I was keeping to the premise of the coachworks needing to stretch it themselves, like they do now. With all the batteries being located exactly where it needs to be split to be…

Aren’t the batteries basically integrated into the floor? The stretch needs to be done within the wheelbase and with all the batteries there I'd imagine it'll be hard to find a safe place to make the cut to insert material.

Much appreciated

Accidentally hit publish before I was finished. Regarding the Rivian as a hearse, believe it or not at almost 200 inches it’s actually too short for practical funeral use. I just measured our hearse (MKT) and it’s over 250 inches (our last hearse was smaller, but it was still over 220). From the back of the front…

This only works for funeral homes that have an extra removal car in the fleet. For funeral homes that don’t have the extra car it’s definitely not just short trips to the local church and cemetery. Our hearse does trips of 150-300 miles with fair regularity and has gone as far as 700 round trip in the line of duty.…

No clue

One more from when Stef and I did the first ever Lemons Rally in a borrowed Baja Bug. The second day of the rally ended in Las Vegas. We rolled into town after 11 PM and with me suffering from the most infamous illness in the Oregon Trail game (yes that one) so we opted to put off getting gas until morning. I…

Just wanted to say that’s a great story, and also it’s still possible to drive your car across the dam (and even, apparently, drive your car towing your car across).

Ohhh boy. Here we go.

Alonso is doing the Indy 500, Scotty is doing the Indy GP, which is held on the track’s road close.

That’s Florian Bernardi. He’s been rallying roughly since 2009. Competes mostly in France, though he did run some ERC events last year in the R3 category.

Yep. As the splits for Neuville were coming in I kept saying Ogier was going to regret that last corner

Amazing final day by Neuville. Started the day in third, 6.4 seconds out of the lead (after being as far back as 16 seconds halfway through Saturday). Won all four stages (including the last one by less than a tenth) to take the rally by a full 12.6 seconds. Meanwhile Elfyn Evans, who led most of the weekend and was…

“Where is the car?”

France has weird vehicle laws that, in short, don’t allow the rally cars to run their standard number plates. So for the French events (Monte and Corsica) they run the plates that just have the car’s competition number on them. The circle sticker tells if the car is running studs. The line is a piece of black tape, if…