Not exactly. The maximum take-off weight for an aircraft isn’t absolute — it depends on weather conditions and the length of the runway. Wind and air pressure have a major impact on what ground speed they’ll need to achieve in order to lift off — and they won’t be able to calculate that until they’re sitting in the…

I don’t want a system that works in my car. I want a system that works in my car, and in the grocery store, and in my living room. I will not be loading a GM app onto my phone to do that under any circumstances, and I am ...skeptical...that GM could make a product that has any relationship at all to products from…

I’m not particularly interested in anything GM sells for a whole host of reasons. However, I’ll say this - I wouldn’t buy a vehicle in 2023 that didn’t have Car Play support. I’m not terribly interested in learning a second system just so a car company can avoid a license fee.

Let’s be real here the bar to surpass iDrive is so low it’s practically underground.

So it’s an entertainment system with extra steps.

This is so fucking stupid. Consumers like familiarity. And the thing they are probably the most familiar with is the phones they stick to their faces 300 times a day and the operating systems they use. To instead make a whole new OS that is totally unfamiliar is ridiculous.

To play Devil’s advocate, who should control the system? The government?

I think it all comes down to consumers just liking things that work well and disliking things that don’t. They really don’t care about the reasons behind what works and doesn’t, the excuses for what doesn’t in particular, or any of the other nuances that might come into play.

Isn’t it funny? I, too, like Rivian, and there’s no particular reason why (though their piece in “The Long Way Up” seemed generally positive). I’ve just ended up with the impression that they are serious people making a serious product, with their eyes wide open throughout. Some kind of marketing lessons in all of…

Meh, just throw one of these in the Frunk.

Loans which they paid back early, and with interest. Often forgotten is that Ford got a loan more than 10x the size of Tesla’s under the same program, which they’re still paying on. This was also around the same time the big 3 got their bailouts. Decide for yourself which of those loans was a better use of money.

See “United States customary units”

VHS beat Betamax. Blu-Ray beat HDDVD. Telsa beat (whatever the fuck we’re talking about.)

It sounds good to me until he starts revving it like a K swap. K swap is the old bap bap bap off the rev limiter this is more like it ate like 10 bean burritos for lunch and is letting the cheeks just flap. 

the people who shit on LS swaps are the most insufferable of automotive enthusiasts.

“This 550-horsepower VR6 is yet another reason not to put an LS under your hood.”

My primary rationale for an engine swap isn’t to put something unlikely under the hood. My list is HP, easy fitment, a big aftermarket and bullet proof reliability all of which are embodied in the LS.

Am I the only one who thinks it doesn’t sound very good for a VR? A stock R32 sounds better, let alone one that’s been warmed over.

“But nobody drives a Wrangler on paper, they take it to the dirt.”

This is some gatekeeping bullshit you should be ashamed of.