Same. I think the “regular” Continental looks better than the Batur. Maybe it’s just Bentley being a victim of their own success; like Aston designing the perfect car back in 2003 with the DB9 and then having nowhere else to go but down from there.

I’m probably in the minority, but I don’t find the Batur to be all that “stunning”. For the price tag, I find that it actually looks quite “ordinary”. There are lots of small design details around the car that on their own are quite attractive and beautiful; they just don’t all add up to make a “beautiful” car in my…

Haven’t you heard? Tesla isn’t a car company, but an AI company; so the answer to your question is: “never”.

Needs a quart of oil every 500 miles… Audi says that’s “within normal operating specifications”… 😬

Facebook Marketplace… also does not fill me with confidence. 

Facebook Marketplace?

Well if that’s the case, then this is clearly an example of a scientific text being misconstrued by mainstream media to make inappropriate inferences for sensationalism. Because you don’t make inferences about an entire population based on a narrow sample of 500.

I’d offer to help, but I’m just an amateur 3D modeler and maker, so the quality of my work probably isn’t up to Porsche standards. My printer can make larger items (350mm x 350mm x 400mm), but I’ve never made something like a headlamp housing before; and I don’t have a 996 lying around to take exact measurements from.…

I wasn’t suggesting you buy that specific kit; was just an example of something someone did. By “custom” I meant to build something for your specific vehicle (or have it made). You could even 3D print new housings; which depending on how you modify the design could negate the need for replacement factory lenses.

Something like this:

I think the aftermarket lights in chrome might blend in a bit better, and may also look better with the yellow tint installed; although I don’t hate the black headlights look.

Have you considered doing a custom retrofit of your current headlights? I’ve seen a few of these online for the 996. Apparently there was a guy in Kansas or Kentucky doing those. 

Musk seems to want to exist in a perpetual “start up” mode. He’s fixated on unlimited growth, “sleeping on the factory floor”, “up all night coding”, etc. He doesn’t seem to understand that for a company to survive in the long run it has to transition away from “start up” to a more stable management and operational…

I’ve always had my doubts about how much supercharging would really be worth as a stand alone business. Unless Tesla produces all of the electricity that feeds the supercharging stations, they are ultimately price takers from the local utilities; which essentially levels the field for any potential competitors. Tesla…

I didn’t say it was true. He just wants everyone to believe that it is. If you repeat the lie often enough…

The supercharger team cuts are quite frankly baffling, but we shouldn’t gloss over the “new vehicle” team cuts either. Tesla already has an aging line up. A lot of the current valuation is tied up in new products launching (“cheaper” mass produced Cybertrucks, the “cold rocket thruster” Roadster, the “yes we will/no…

Maybe this is just Musk doubling down on the “Tesla is not a car company” line that he vomited up during the last earnings call. Maybe he’s just trying to prove that point by firing the people who actually work on the cars and the chargers that the cars need in order to function.

Apparently it was peer reviewed and published; which suggests that either CBC didn’t do a good job of translating the science and just ran with a sensationalist story; or the peer review process for that journal is shit. Both of which, unfortunately, happen fairly regularly. 

This is the answer. The sample in the study was too small and too narrow to make any inferences about larger populations. I’m a bit surprised this passed peer review; but then I do see a lot of garbage that gets published these days.

So what we have here is a social scientist, someone we would expect to understand concepts like “sample size” and “sampling bias”, who decided to do a study on a subject that she has a personal vendetta against where the outcome just happens to support her narrative? And this work has passed peer review and been…