Slack-assers need jobs too, though. They have bills and deserve shelter, food and Disney+ just like the people who do real work

We can save an awful lot of time and trouble by just assuming any layout announcement from any major corporation is either a lie or a wildly low estimate.

There’s an article out there about this somewhere. EVs are in a HP war partly because it’s not a massive deal to add more power. The limitation is generally current flow rather than the motor itself. The way to get more current is to add more cells, which you need to get decent range anyway, so getting more power is…

“Good morning, Tesla. Take me to Mars.”

I think you got that backward. I would take a Model 3 any day over a BMW or Mercedes. BMW generally has shitty long-term quality and durability... same for Mercedes.

No, none of that is objectively good.  It is subjectively good.  Objectivity requires that truth lie outside of the mind.  Subjectivity requires that truth lie within the mind.  Statements like “The Empire State Building is taller than the White House” are objectively true because they can be verified by pointing to…

That’s totally valid. As an appliance it does a great job. As a car, it’s pretty good. But that doesn’t mean that criticisms of a $40+k (less now, but that’s very recent) aren’t warranted. 

I think those are reasons... but the perception of “being able to see in traffic better,” “being higher on the road,” and “safer” follows CUVs/SUVs pretty closely. There have been a number of surveys over the years that seem to confirm/perpetuate it as well.

Subjectively, though, they are almost universally tall and ugly and largely responsible for killing a lot of cool, sleek sedans.

I’m confused. Half of these say why they hate an objectively good car, the other half are just hating on cars and there is no admission they are good.

Are you okay? Blink twice if you need help.

If I had a nickel for every time the inside of my skull got X-Rayed by an oncoming Acura MDX...

Living in SE Michigan you tend to see a lot of road-testing vehicles. Just last week I merged in-between 3 new S650 Mustangs doing some manufacturer testing and I couldn’t help but notice how remarkably similar they looked to my own S550 Mustang that I daily.

Assuming the dealer didn’t sell a trade out from under them, it doesn’t sound like they were worse-off after they lost the new car than before; otherwise, they could have just gone back to what they were driving.

I mean, as I outlined below, even if you do go to the dealer for financing initially and that deal falls through, you still have the option to shop the loan around and come back with your own financing, if you can get it. You don’t have to either accept their terms or return the car.

“Volkswagen-esque taillights”? How about Honda-esque taillights, Honda? And the knockoff Ford grill? Really? How lazy.  How did nobody see or care about the obvious similarities to other brands' design elements?

but the dealer is the one who set up the financing and said “you’re good at XYZ terms. Enjoy your new ride!” and sent them out the door. If the customer doesn’t even know that the financing is not locked in and done because there is a person telling them (or insinuating) anything else, and that person is someone who…

I had this happen in the early 90s. Nissan dealer called us up a week later, tells us the financing fell through and wanted another $600 down to get the rate and payment we signed up for.

because there’s too many execs making decisions because they can, without having an understanding of why, and just telling the engineers to do it anyways. See also Developers vs Publishers for videogames. 

The problem probably isn’t the engineers, but rather all of the different management teams who give the engineers ridiculous, conflicting directions and requirements.