It’s actually a pretty impressive weight loss, roughly 13.5% reduction in weight. Were it a 3500lb car, that'd be about 472lbs.

God I love these things in the most silly way.

Obligatory

“Calling you Uncle Abdul feels a little weird. If you’re family, you’re family. So I’m going to call you Daddy.”

“Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist for Cox Automotive, told AutoNews that he has a working hypothesis. Mainly, it costs more to buy a car these days, and it’s tough to borrow the money to do it. It’s pretty tough to sell to a market that doesn’t have the means to buy.”

Planet Earth: Here’s a few extra feet of ocean, forest fires that block out the sun, and total collapse of ecosystems.

It is called being Westinghoused.

The “Battery-pack defibrillator challenge”

It means they are capable of doing it, they just haven’t been willing.

Considering they STILL only have the one electric vehicle, it’s hard to fathom that they would have 20x that in just a few years, despite the relative ease of sharing the Bolt’s powertrain among different vehicles.

Barra claimed that GM would have an entire fleet of EVs 2 years ago. And yet we have seen exactly zero concepts or mention of any of them so far. Interesting seeing as how every other automaker seems all too happy to show off theirs. So it makes me wonder: Does GM actually have anything to show?

industry-leading electrification capabilities

It has come to my attention that my shareholders are displeased that I haven’t also made an announcement about electric pickups to inflate our stock price since they’re the hot topic right now, so I just wanted to make it known that I am indeed working on an electric pickup. I don’t have any specifics to share at this…

Faraday Future pitch team: “Hey, we’re just like Tesla was over a decade ago, with no viable product, but a lot of great ideas and promises. Except those are basically the same great ideas and promises Tesla had - over a decade ago, when there was no competition yet. Oh, and we’ve already managed to burn through a lot…

Aha, but as we know, your judgment is not to be trusted!

COTD

Stakeholder: We’re really into organic forms and how they may be used to inspire automobile design. We’re thinking for the new line up, fish.

Fuck. I was enjoying the past year or so that I hadn’t seen and forgot about this thing.

or for around $300,000 you can buy a Lenco Bearcat.. also built on the F550 chassis, but can hold you and 10 of your friends (and you can all carry guns while you ride), and it has a turret hatch on top. Wouldn’t cost much to get a wrap on it or get the seats re-upholstered in leather if that’s your thing.