I’d imagine Apple doesn’t have an answer when manufacturers point out “We already make money by making cars, what are you bringing to the table?”

They’ll probably also actually improve the quality of the ground water in that region too. Everyone wins!

His local zoning people have preemptively put the kibosh on that idea.

They probably should’ve tested the vehicles on the course the journalists would use BEFORE the journalists got a hold of them.

Ah, I wasn’t aware of what you were referencing. I read (most of) that wonderful AWD article, but had to get back to pretending to work by the time I got to the comments.

For all his faults, the man has taste.

Eh, it’s a fine system for some use cases. Ultra-capable offroad vehicle isn’t one of those use cases, which is why Ford shouldn’t be attempting to sell a tarted up Escape as an ultra-capable offroad vehicle. They have the real Bronco for that work.

When I was buying my Golf R the salesman straight up said “R buyers know more about these cars than we do. You already know you want an R, you’re just here to see if you want this one. Let me know when you’re ready to talk numbers”.

No judgement here, my reply has no basis in logic or reality so I’m not really in a position to cast stones.

Or, you know, gun owners don’t go around murdering people because they were inconvenienced.

Do you not try new things?

They’re born with the pants. When they reach adolescence they enter a cocoon, shed their pants and emerge as beautiful butterflies.

Consumers pay attention to marketing, not obscure SAE documents. Making any sort of change to this is pointless when Tesla can sell “Full Self Driving” that is actually none of those things.

Lifehack: Just don’t carry insurance and the car can’t get totaled no matter how badly it deserves it.

You clearly have a counterfeit Camry so you’re at the back of the line.

Right, now imagine a situation where you do that AND the dealer doesn’t even need to pay a salesman or finance guy or anything because the website already did that part of the job. That’s why this is a wet dream for them.

We’re going to be able to tell future generations there was a time when you could purchase a quesadilla without giving out all of your personal information and their minds are going to be blown.

When Bitcoin was brand new I recall reading a story of a guy who convinced a pizza place to accept payment in bitcoin, I think he handed over several thousand of them for 1 pizza.

Of course it’s the dealers. It looks like this site lets you buy a car from one at full sticker with no effort on the dealer’s part, this is a wet dream for them.

Yeah it’s not great, but this was never meant to be a performance car. It’s a cruiser, they put a V8 in there for sound not speed.