Badly.  But the good news is that in addition to kudzu we also have kudzu bugs, an imported pest that unless presented something more palatable like a profitable soybean crop, they will eat the kudzu plants which have evolved alongside the kudzu bugs and don’t seem to mind their predations in the slightest.

Right?  “Power window trouble, hmm.  Oh, needs a new door card?  Let Birds = N and window motor and door card replacement jobs = stone = N-1.”

Having seen far too many just rust away to nothing here in the damp jungles of East Tennessee, seeing one that appears to still have all its body panels in one piece is kind of refreshing.

So? There’s a fair chance that the RAV4 sitting atop the hydrant had well over 100,000 miles. 90K isn’t much with a RAV4.

I just got done driving a Wrangler last weekend for ~100 miles; for a guy whose username includes “Jeep” and trying to convince me a car shopper doesn’t hate his life, that’s not the hill you want to die on. As much as I have enjoyed taking my mom’s Wrangler for short trips - five miles or less - taking one over…

For that money, I’d rather get a first-gen that is in museum condition instead.

Let me push the needle in a new direction. Or rather, remove the needle entirely. You say you’ve got a middlin’ long commute; any of these choices will bleed you dry in short order if you try to daily these things. Why not stick to what you know, and maybe even save a few bucks?

I’m actually kind of with Torch on the HiAce.

Yeah, but it’s New Mexico.  For my money I get land where water exists and falls out of the sky for free.

For $88,000 I could own five acres of land.

I always wondered about the saws. The Mach 5 is supposed to be a race car, so at what point during the competition do the saws come into play? Certainly that isn’t sanctioned by any governing body.

I saw the headline and the price tag and actually snorted.  I didn’t read another goddam word.  It wasn’t worth that when it was new, even if that was the price tag.

The Changli parked next to the smart looks like manhwa next to manga, except backwards because the Changli is totally manga.

I’ve seen enough Pornhub to know I don’t want to ride the wet rod.

A-ha. There it is. But that 300 miles/20 minutes thing is what I keep seeing. And since that is the one that got shouted in the headline and in the body of the post, I have to wonder which one is more accurate. Lucid’s own website, while achingly stylish, is thin on details.

I’d bet dollars to donuts the Lucid cannot maintain its higher rate for the full charge either.  There’s a butter zone where it ain’t empty and ain’t full and that’s when you can really pile on the amps, and that’s going to be the case no matter who made it.  At either side of that sweet spot, things have to slow down.

I think it’s worded quite well, actually.  I remember how those Celicas smelled, both new and old.

And if this was happening to me I’d already be in jail getting screwed by lawyers and judges.

The photo text says 300 miles in 20 minutes, which the body of the post states is more than Tesla’s, but then you point out that the Tesla system provides about 15 miles per minute, which is hmm lemme math that out 300 miles in 20 minutes.

Yeah, you’re not getting off with just a warning for that.