I have to test drive a car. Seats are a deal killer for me. Brakes are a deal killer for the missus. People still get emotionally attached to a car through a test drive. I would argue the majority of people buying cars just want something general, fall in love with the concept of something shiny and new, and make the…

I think by going “Online Only”, they’re cutting out a lot of potential buyers.

Y’all are dead wrong. It’s Ford. You’re letting your bias show. Here are the latest export numbers from the Dept. of Commerce (or corrected for newer data when available, as noted):

Ford: 380,000
BMW : 235,000 (from above)
GM: 233,000
FCA : 180,000
Toyota : 160,000
Mercedes : 120,000 (estimated)
Honda : 109,000
Hyundai :…

Even your own link doesn’t say that. It says CARB overestimated future off-road equipment use levels, largely because the great recession led to a significant reduction in use. No EPA involved. No funding on the line for it. Just a recession that resulted in lowered fuel use. Of course, that was 2010, so these days…

As someone who worked at the EPA (contracted researcher) for a number of years, that might be the greatest laugh I’ve every had.. turn off the Fox News buddy

Nice Faux news talking points.

If anything, the fuel economy standards are not strict enough. You can meet the standards without a single electric car. In some categories like large light trucks, you can even do it without a single hybrid!

82% of customers bought their Model 3 without ever having taken a test drive

... has the potential to land CEOs and CFOs in jail.

Define what is the in the best interests of shareholders.

Same here. I’ve been part of one layoff. I was the only employee on the clock on a Friday afternoon when corporate called me up at the front desk and said they are closing the branch at EOB so don’t come in to work tomorrow. For publicly traded companies, it is way too risky to give employees that kind of info in…

the fuck kind of utopic wonder-plane does amazon think people fly on? me knees are in the back of the seat in front of me even *before* that asshole tries to lean back on me.

the fuck kind of utopic wonder-plane does amazon think people fly on? me knees are in the back of the seat in front…

Ha!  If you’re four-foot something, this would be great.  I’m lucky if my knees don’t dig into the seat in front of me and can barely use the tray.

Ha!  If you’re four-foot something, this would be great.  I’m lucky if my knees don’t dig into the seat in front of…

1st and 2nd: who could have predicted that a bunch of old, racist voters could somehow manage to fuck the global car industry into oblivion? I mean sure, Honda says that closing Swindon has nothing to do with Brexit, but even from the International Space Station, Stevie Wonder could see they’re just playing CYA with…

Most SUVs aren’t truck based and the difference between their sedan siblings will not justify getting rid of them at lost.

People keep saying this, but there’s a huge difference between SUV’s now and SUV’s in the early 2000's - fuel economy. You’re not getting 50% better fuel economy switching to a car from an SUV. A Mazda CX-5 is 25/31, and a 3 is 28/37. That’s not a massive change, especially if you are doing mostly non-freeway driving.

Can we PLEASE stop with this whole “single personal anecdotal data point negates all available statistics” bullshit?

I live in the center of the largest Amish community in the world. There are rough 40K of them in the hood, here is south central PA. If you think that they are anything but some of the most savvy and successful business people anywhere, you haven’t been paying attention. I have neighbors that own huge, extremely…

I think that while watching How It’s Made and they are making something mundane like pencils and the narrator says, “This facility is capable of producing 400,000 pencils a day.” WHO IS BUYING ALL THOSE PENCILS?!

Commercial electrical is typically 3 phase (your house is single phase) and often 460 volts or higher, which means DC fast chargers are basically just giant AC-DC transformers with a voltage regulator built in. They can easily handle the kind of load you are talking about.