Exactly. My great grandparents did just fine with a buckboard pulled by 2 nags. Their 8 kids did fine in the back and anything more comfortable than this is wasteful and unnecessary.

He’s not accusing the media of bias, he’s accusing them of publishing outright lies. Elon had all yellow safety lines removed from the factory because he doesn’t like yellow, Elon had back-up sensors turned off because they’re too noisy— there’s a long list of published lies that are patently false and mostly sourced…

You’ve aptly illustrated the car trend I hate the most— annoying self-righteous people who want to tell everyone what vehicle to drive, and who apply good and evil personas to vehicle types. And no, I don’t drive a truck or an SUV, in fact I drive an EV, but I also live and let live.

We didn’t change from horse and buggy to cars because of government regulating horse poop. It was technological innovation in the private sector. Fleet fuel economy standards produced the malaise era cars of the 70s and the modern fleet standards have produced a generation of less-safe ultraflimsy econo-boxes that…

My comment was referring to diesel engines producing less CO2 than gasoline engines. We all understand that CO2 is a product of combustion in general.

I was a Canadian attending a US college for 4 years. I was specifically told that my Canadian drivers license would only be valid if I could prove Canadian citizenship with either a physically present passport or a birth certificate. This woman had neither. I was also an international student in the UK and they didn’t…

That same factory under joint Toyota-GM managment produced more cars than is currently being produced by Tesla. I still wouldn’t rule out the MY being built in Fremont, especially considering it shares a chassis with the M3.

If you think criminal charges against Winterkorn are only symbolic simply because he’s currently in Germany, you are sorely mistaken and ignorant of both US and international law. The US has a very long legal arm. He won’t be able to step foot in an extradition-treaty country for the rest of his life without fear of…

It wouldn’t be that ironic because diesel engines don’t produce much CO2. They emit nitrates/particulates.

Your enthusiasm for Japanese city cars is, I presume, the result of having never driven one. It may look cute but it’s a miserable excuse for transportation.

Big mistake and illustrates the problem with the manufacturer-dealership model. You and I aren’t Hyundai’s customer—the dealerships are. This was done to make dealerships happy. Customers will not be happy taking their $80k luxury car to a dumpster of a Hyundai dealership for service, nor will they enjoy the sales…

Wish the financial throwaway journals were held to the same fiduciaries as companies are, there’s been so much nonsense reported about Tesla finances lately. They’re sitting on 3 Billion dollars. With a B. And selling cars faster than they can make them. If you read Bloomberg you’d think they were days from…

What’s the point of this article. As you state, the payload comparisons are completely meaningless. A F150 if actually built and rated in the eastern block would probably have a payload rating of a million pounds.

Brought to you by the UAW and their friends in the media. The bad news ends when the factory unionizes.

Asking what the TSA has done for you is like asking what your vaccinations have done for you. You could complain and say they’ve done nothing but hurt your arm. But there’s an outside chance they’ve saved your life and you just didn’t know it.

We never would have got past the horse and buggy in today’s litigious no-personal-responsibility society. They guy drove into a concrete wall that was visible half a mile away.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one Jason. I find the current generation Avalon to be the most attractive sedan in the Toyota/Lexus universe, having avoided the full predator-face treatment, and if you actually drive one it’s quite good at what it does. Not every sedan needs to be tuned for the Nurburgring to…

It would be “working to fix things”, which is how you’ve chosen to define our trade policy with China the last several administrations, which by any measure has been a failure.

How as that worked out the last 3 decades. Because that approach is what created this huge trade deficit.

Not sure what your motive is for carrying China’s water on this issue Erik. Maybe just disagreeing with Trump is the only journalistic standard you need to meet. But the fact is China has incredibly one-sided tariffs on cars and nobody has had the balls to call them on it until now. You’re really going to defend a 10…