Of course I realize Covid is a serious disease and it continues to march across the world with little regard to the various state regulations. We should all be taking serious precautions to prevent its spread but I contend we don’t all need to be confined to our homes. Both Eric and Raphael often despair at their…

I just booked a BBQ foursome at my local country club. It’s a fair way to drive and it’ll cost me some green but it suits me to a tee.

“Don’t trust them”? No, I don’t think my cameras are cheating with my wife. They either work or they don’t. If they are showing you an image, it accurately reflects their field of view. If they are properly aligned and working, I trust a camera just as much as a mirror.

I am staying sane by living. I am running a vintage car rally next weekend and then flying to NJ for a racing event. Yes, I am taking reasonable precautions. No, I am not locked in a cell like a hermit. Despite your personal experience in NYC and the nightly news (also from NYC), your experience is not the norm.

Maybe all the American manufacturers have a warehouse full of amber indicator rear lights and they’re just too lazy to put them on the assembly line.

Every software bro knows that ‘Beta’ is a magic pixie dust fairy that charms away all claims of functionality or errors in execution.

GM has a history of failure with their dealers and new ideas. When the Corvair debuted with unibody and rear air-cooled engine as essentially a larger American Beetle, the GM marketing was great and many people bought them. When they needed service many dealers had not trained their technicians so it was a bad…

Fearless Leader has made a long career of being unpredictable and willing to make disproportionate responses. It works in business, politics, and F1 racing... until it doesn’t. At some point no one wants to deal with your shit.

$4.5 billion will be spent over a few years so maybe $1b per year. Still, that is spending 10% of profits on EV research, development, and manufacturing on top of their normal ICE R&D. For a big corporation, that is a pretty bold move.

Who the hell is buying $70,000 pickup trucks and Escalades? Yeah, those people.

I dislike it. It’s brilliant. This is GM’s next Escalade and will be purchased by the same demographic - athletes, internet influencers, actors, rich show-offs. It is the halo product they’ve been lacking and they need to get it into production asap.

Nailed it. They don’t know which way it’s going to fall and they can lose big if they choose the wrong side.

No and they shouldn’t either. Milk should cost more so real legal workers are willing to take the job. That is how supply and demand works when there aren’t distortions like illegal workers or inflated minimum wages.

Your take is so wrong. For once GM has managed to create an aspirational vehicle. This will be the thing to have for internet influencers, athletes, macho celebrities, and people of means who like to show off. It is excessive, inefficient, and expensive, just like the other giant trucks that people are gobbling up…

This thing is a grand slam - great design ideas, imposing presence, technological tour de force. A GM product that is actually desirable. Yes it is expensive. Yes it is excessive. Yes it is inefficient. People with the cash (or financing) will line up to buy these beasts. This is a halo product for GM and will make…

Thanks for sharing. Yes, that makes the claims much more believable.

Mary needs to get on Twitter, start smoking weed, and call out some pedos. Then she’ll get some followers.

Yes there is aggressive airflow but is there filtration that would catch a tiny virus? Or is that airflow aggressively recycled back into the cabin.

This is guerrilla marketing, corporate style. Leak the announcement “accidentally”. Then everyone gets the pre-scoop before the scoop. Draws attention to the real announcement and gets twice the news coverage.

Agreed. Elon should have given 2 seconds of thought before commenting on the coup of the leader of a country that supplies raw materials to his company. On the other hand, irreverent, snarky, and bold are his brand. Muskovites seem to love it.