Pratt demolished the last of his goodwill alongside the Zimmerman house.

$1 billion in exchange for the future of humanity is a pitiful sum. That’s like selling your soul to the devil because you’re short a nickel for a parking meter. Absolutely insane.

There is no “long game” at Tesla anymore, just whatever insane thing pops into Muskrat’s brain while on his latest ketamine binge.  At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if his office had a secret room where he stockpiles piss jars.

BAT 7 was briefly used as a race car. There’s a lot of purpose-built racers I could list, but the BAT cars are so beyond the level of just about every other car on the planet, I had to pick it.

It’s too similar to The Search for Spock.  That’s all I can hear, in Generic Trailer Narrator Voice.

Are you my mom? Because that’s what she always says about her old Spitfire. She was an advanced driving instructor and got to drive Porsches and Ferraris all the time, but nothing beat her Triumph for fun because it was only thing you could push to the absolute limit.

GM didn’t just ignore Saab, though, they actively and consistently screwed them over. They kept giving Saab leftovers from other brands and telling them to do the most basic brand-engineering, and Saab’s engineers kept saying “this is crap, we’re gonna make it better.” The problem is that you can only polish a turd so…

I legitimately have no idea what brand this car even is.

Lutz’s comment perfectly sums up the problem: GM had no idea what Saab stood for or what to do with it, so they mismanaged it to death over years.  2008 was just the final bullet to the head of the rotting, shambling corpse.

So it’s not about a watery tart distributing swords?  Pass.

Who else is going to give you rear wheel steering?

I think I was 10 or 11 when I got my first knife, a Victorinox with a translucent green handle.  Cutting tape on Lego boxes was about all that tiny blade could handle.  Hard to imagine anyone but airlines and schools worrying about something with such limited cutting power.

No, I haven’t crush tested anything near the hinge, but the difference is that once it does detect resistance, it reverses.  The Tesla detects things and just closes even harder, which is an insane design decision.

I so wish Koenigsegg had managed to resurrect Saab as their “basic” brand.

According to Elon, Tesla doesn’t make cars, they’re a robotics and AI company. He’s going to make Grok-Cabs that spout transphobia as they drive their customers under the sides of tractor trailers.

Next week’s top headline: “Shotwell shitcanned.”

That’s all they have, because they’re aggressively pursuing positions that most Americans oppose.

The engineer told him the frunk increases in pressure every single time it closes and detects resistance, Judkins said. It’s going to assume you want to close the frunk and maybe something like a bag is getting in the way, which would make it close harder.

I don’t think typical Bentley buyers care either, it’s all about the exclusivity.

So Blinken and Romney are admitting that one of the reasons they want to shut down TikTok is because it contributes to the idea that Palestinians are actual human beings who don’t deserve apartheid and genocide. I really hope that quote is included in Bytedance’s lawsuit.