Are they competing for some award for expensive, vulnerable, and annoying to replace headlights?

Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s the price of the cars, but Bugatti has really done nothing for me emotionally since maybe the first Veyron. I’d say their design language is too strong, since I would’ve thought the car in the last photo was just a Veyron with better headlights. I will be taking my millions of dollars…

While I wanted Martin to win it, and I’m chuffed he did, he had the same bike as Bagnaia. Not similar, the same. Pramac has fewer technicians to go over data, and they might get mileage out of parts than the factory team, but otherwise it’s the same for him.

Design Theory on youtube had a good video recently on the markup of luxury brands. It’s 37 minutes and worth the full watch, but the part from 3:47 talks to exclusivity and brands making customers jump through hoops. Feels relevant to the article:

If the US government had pumped as much money into EVs as China has for the past ~15 years they probably would’ve pulled it off.

Small correction to the headline, but Xiaomi doesn’t build it, they contract that to BAIC who are an actual car company that has been around for decades. Still it’s kinda crazy that a smartphone company designed a car, and their first go at it is apparently really good. I wonder how much BAIC helped in that regard.

No, conflict of interest because he’s reportedly diverting Tesla’s resources to his xAI pet project

He does have his own AI company, xAI. Definitely not a conflict of interest to work in that field at Tesla.

 They’re just the right amount of angular and aggressive without trying too hard. I don’t dig on CUVs much but yeah this one has always looked the part.

Hitting revs is easy, call me when you’ve hit 290 kph on the front straight at Mugello on one 😁

Imagine having bad enough credit that most other brands won’t even touch you. Nissan: “allow me to introduce myself....”

1,000% agreed. MBS is being ridiculous in this situation and needs to stay in his lane. I don’t know why he continues to be so antagonistic towards the drivers.

The FIA is not the commercial rights holder or the organizer of F1, they do not control what gets broadcast.

Crying about someone saying a swear is peak manbaby behavior.

Well it’s hard to make the wrap stick properly if you have blood on the panel from the sharp edges. Best leave it to the pros!

Ah I remember the pedestrian death, I didn’t realize it ended up with a sale of that division. Whomp whomp.

What happened to Uber’s whole masterplan of becoming an autonomous taxi company? I thought that was the pitch from almost the beginning, the human drivers were just a stopgap.

Defense lawyers gonna defense lawyer, really. It’s a pretty clearcut case of a DUI otherwise so gotta throw that shit at the wall.

I kinda miss the variety of phones back in the 2000s. Maybe these glasses are rose-tinted but there were so many options. I know dumb or “feature” phones still exist but it’s not quite the same.

Lol what is this revisionist history. I don’t own Apple products and that will probably continue but this completely ignores how much better the iPhone was at the time. BB had their own thing going on and they were doing well, but I had tried multiple touch screen phones before the iPhone and they were mid at best. It…