This. I expense my gas receipts for work, so I need paper receipts. At least our accounting department has been ok with just a picture of the pump gallons and charges when the printer is inevitably out of paper.

Why is Mario Wonder on there so much? It’s a formulaic 2D Mario platformer. I’ve played it a little and it’s... fine... but GoTY? C’mon... 

I will say too that in my brief interactions with Carmax staff, the sales people took the time to educate themselves on the cars I was interested prior to me meeting them, even surveying dealer stock in the region to offer me options they might not have had right there on the lot. When I got there for my appointment,…

Eh, that’s not always the case. I work in technical engineering sales, and only engineers who originally designed, built, and used the products can move into the sales role, but I know that’s a rarity in sales. 

We owned one for 10 years and even towards the end of owning it, I had to explain that yes, it had a gas engine AND a battery and that the battery could power the car exclusively until it ran out afterwards the engine kicked in to work as a generator.

I’d say the Santa Cruz is the Ridgeline’s closest competitor. The Maverick is smaller, but in certain specs can tow nearly as much (4k lbs vs 5k in the Ridgeline and Santa Cruz). 

The Ridgeline is one of those rare vehicles that’s honestly perfect for just about anybody needing a truck, but yet is entirely unappealing at the same time.

My parents have one. It’s an excellent truck. It rides great, has plenty of power and decent towing capacity for the smaller trailer they have, and it’s got…

Don’t be so sure. Until very recently, Tesla cars had huge margins (and judging from their general disregard of build quality, you can see where they got those margins). They can afford to take low margins on the Cybertruck to stamp out Rivian. That’s not a luxury Rivian has.

I’m still rooting for Rivian though. They…

Well, if you read my post, you’d see I intentionally DIDN’T buy a Tesla, so not really a fanboy, just pointing that for all their faults, Tesla cars still sell really well. I don’t think the Cybertruck will be any different, despite what people on a car blog say. 

I really like Rivians, but if the Cybertruck undercuts them on price as much as was originally expected, Rivian should still be worried. 

For hating Tesla so much, this site sure blabs about them a lot...

Sure, the Cybertruck looks weird, but if they undercut Ford, Rivian, Chevy, etc on price, they’ll sell like crazy. Back when I bought my Mach-E, the MSRP was cheaper than a Model Y and I got $10k in state+federal rebates. I didn’t want a Tesla anyway,…

Yeah, I have a Mach-E, and the comparison against the Model Y in pricing is 100% true.

The EV tax credit shuffling that went into effect earlier this year also heavily tipped the scales in Tesla’s favor. Last year when I bought my Mach-E GT under the old rules, the Model Y had a starting price higher than the Mach-E,…

Are they still sitting on the lots with massive markups? I had to shop around a bunch of dealers before I found one that would let me ORDER a Mach-E without a dealer markup.

Once I found one that let me order at MSRP, it was a painless process after that. The car is great too. 

Well to be fair, many EV infotainment systems like Tesla, Ford, and presumably GM have LTE/5G modems in them and the live maps have every bit as much detail as Apple/Google Maps/Waze, etc regarding traffic, upcoming hazards, weather, etc. In the case of Ford, everything is free for 3 years and that includes updates…

Good. I like Rivian, and the people I know with them (both R1Ts and the R1S) like them a lot. 

You get all the stars for spreading the joy of Robot Cantina. It’s one of my favorite channels. THOSE are engine swaps. 

Do something unique, something neat — not just another Chevy V8.

Knowing Apple, they would probably push wireless charging where you park over a charging pad. 

Convenient, but highly inefficient at the power needed to charge an EV. 

Oh please, Tesla repaid their $465 million Department of Energy loan 9 years early. Their federal handouts are long gone. Of course they get plenty of tax breaks from states where they built factories, but that’s hardly unique to Tesla. 

I dunno about removing pumps, but certainly adding some chargers to the side of the mini-marts or whatever would drum up more business.

As an EV driver, I don’t give gas stations a second thought anymore, but if they offered fast charging, I’d stop inside for a drink and a pee break.