I always try “V8 manual”, then “V8 manual truck” because all I get with “V8 manual” are Mustangs.

Write your congressperson about it. Every single day. Seriously.

I bought my first manual earlier this year!

I just got back from China, and this was a common thing for the cab drivers to do (park or neutral). To me, it seemed that they did it because it lessened cabin vibration for a short period of time, but I could be wrong.

I saw those taillights this morning on my drive into work (in the dark). Yikes.

Has anyone considered the magnitude of fuel economy improvement that will come with autonomous vehicles?

I’d say something like a base Ford Flex SE with no options. Quiet, comfortable, pretty plain cloth interior, parking sensors but no camera, etc. Not sure if the automatic is any good though.

I don’t really think it’s like that any more. I hired in as a contract employee right out of college in 2012 at one of the Big 3 with “indefinite employment”, and then converted to direct hire a little over a year later. Essentially, automakers are hiring contract employees to test them out. Some are really good and…

Not only that remark that came at the very end of the episode, but I re-watched it, and Garry talks about death and dying throughout the whole thing! It was strange.

This. A new vehicle costs ~$1B to develop.

Except not Lincoln.