At one point, we must start to do so as a lot of people think their freedom is more important than the better good. It is called regulation and obliviously this industry needs a lot of regulation.

Lets be honest, their real reluctance to go EV is that they would be loosing their number one reason why people are buying Toyota, mechanical reliability. Minus a few models, Toyota are sooo boring to drive but people buy them because they will outlast pretty much any competitors car. Now if you have an EV powertrain,…

ok, sure. When you used to work at Jalopnik in the past, I remember to check first who wrote the story and not even read your stories anymore. I remember why now.

https://www.motorsport.com/dakar/news/sainz-cant-let-his-guard-down-as-loeb-chases-him-for-dakar-win/10566419/

This is exactly what most drivers do in France, when I used to live there. It really only snow in the mountain so when you go to the ski resort, like once a year (typically for 1 week of vacation in France), you pack you snow chain and at the bottom of the pass, a sign will actually indicate if you need to put them on…

Sainz is definitely a worthy winner but I would not say he dominated the rally. Until yesterday, there were only 13min between himself and Loeb. And Sainz had to drive flat out the entire last week as Loeb was pretty much taking 10mins on him every day. But good for him and for Audi.

I am not sure it was drift. He got scared, yank the steering wheel to change lane as quickly as possible and lost the rear. At least this is how I see it on the video.

That does not make it less impressive even if this is meaningless. Drag race is meaningless, that does not mean it cannot be fun or impressive to watch. Not sure what is your point.

EV (any of them really but not the first or second year model, just to make sure they ironed out the little issues than any new models are being subjected...)

Such a (good) small company but that might died if they are not focusing on EV. This is just the reality of the worldwide market, like it or not.

May I ask you how long you have been riding motorcycle ? If you think that 85hp is all what you would ever want, I may say you might not have rode enough motorcycle or for long enough. I am not talking 215hp race bikes which are not very usable unless your are on track but 85hp is not plenty in my book, specially on…

BS you must control the quality of your supply chain.

Marketing BS aside, let’s think about it 2 seconds, this thing is faster on the 1/8 mile and not too far behind on the 1/4 mile as an icon of a sport car, towing a freaking Porsche 911.

“the Ioniq 6's 77.4-kWh battery pack can be charged from 10 to 80 percent in less than 18 minutes”

“Of the over 2.2 million EV sales in 2023, 78.7 percent of them were Tesla.”

yeah but the GR Yaris/Corolla is already very expensive. I get it, you pay for the hardware, but still expensive in absolute value. Who would buy these things for like $50K ?!?

Most Mercedes since like 2005-2006 comes with a column shifters. Not sure I would classify a Class S as junk cars. It can be done very well and then you wondered why not everybody else is doing the same. Specially when they do not offer a manual version of the same car

Nah, wrong way to look at it. I talked to a lot of colleagues during my commute, specially with a national mandate, a lot of them are still working due to different time zone while I am driving home. The lack of integration was needed. And I can leave earlier while I work in my car.

“In general, I don’t trust NACS to CCS adapters, or vice versa. If the car wasn’t designed to accept the cable, it’s not a great idea to try to shove electrons through any variety of contraption.”

Not counting the number of times I went with knives or screw drivers onboard (not even knowing there were in my bag). These screenings were only here to reassure passengers following 9/11 and now they are part of the landscape.