Haha, I actually went into the semiconductor industry as well. Pays very well and my work is varied. 

It’s amazing to me that for something as ubiquitous and essential to our daily lives as the microchip is, very few people actually understand how they are made.

No, people would absolutely still hate Tesla, Musk or not. Considering how often brodozers roll coal over my Leaf for no reason at all, there are plenty of people who just hate anything new.

Ironically, my Leaf was built in Tennessee, while many of those lifted trucks were made in Canada or Mexico...

If you enjoy cars as a hobby, it’s best to keep them as a hobby.

Having personally hand-dug a 50' retaining wall footing, I can assure you 1000% that this would have helped.

My backyard is inaccessible to standard Bobcats, and a trencher can really cut right the base of a steep slope like I needed. This would have been perfect. 

I just checked, and it’s $99/month + $499 for the hardware kit to get running. Where is this “terminal in excess of $1000"? Is there other hardware required to get that number?

Good grief. You realize this is targeted to rural areas where they still have dial up or DSL AT BEST, right? But yeah, screw having options right? Better to have ISP monopolies that can charge whatever they want in areas where people have no other choice.

Have you actually removed bolt-on fenders? I have, and yes, while the fenders “bolted-on”, getting access to and actually removing said bolts/clips/screws was a total pain. 

Oh look, another EV startup!

Annoy HOA Karens with this one simple trick!

I seriously doubt many people are buying base model Defenders, so the real question here is would you rather have a $62k Rubicon 4-door with basically every single option you can get (and the V6 mild hybrid, in trying to match the Defender), or a $62k Defender 90 (2-door) with the V6 hybrid, and a decent set of…

Sure you can. A military humvee is solidly built, but hardly luxurious. That didn’t stop AM General and GM from trying to market it that way as the H1 Alpha.

A base 200 series is absolutely an incredibly solid vehicle, but you can still get them in Australia with manual windows. Nobody would describe a safari-spec…

So what’s the call to action here? Boycott Toyota? Are we supposed to start tweeting #canceltoyota?

Good question. I remember I tried to buy a base model Prius back in the day, and ever dealer told me they never order those.

In hindsight, I dodged a bullet on that one. 

It’s meant as a reward for loyalty, including loyalty to co-workers. It’s a benefit to the people who design and build the cars.

I mean, you could say the same thing about the Land Cruiser / LX considering how basic Land Cruisers are outside the US.

That’s fair. I do like that feature on my Leaf, though I don’t use it all the time. 

Not really Korean cars. Korean cars don’t really offer any advantages over Japanese cars in Japan, and the Japanese and Koreans have historical and present “tensions”, to put it politically correctly.

Actually, Jeep is quite popular in Japan. I saw lots of RHD Wranglers on the streets of Tokyo, and I’ve found XJs and TJs on family farms out in the country.
You find plenty of American cars around Japan, but yeah, they certainly aren’t as common as their own cars. In my experience with Japanese factories, parking…

I don’t get all the ID.4 ho-hum reviews. I test drove one and really impressed at what you get for the money. Great features, everything felt well-made, and it was comfortable to drive. It has a tremendously comfortable rear seat for a 6'1" adult (I could easily sit behind myself with at least 4" of knee room).