Mind-numbing to read a comparison of your personal pleasure owning a car to the act of creating and raising a child, which has benefits for all society and is literally the only way the human race continues to exist. But I guess the we-hate-the-poor brigade are out in force again. Read more
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At their best, GM interiors are comfortable and surprisingly durable, but they haven’t been good looking since the 1980s at the latest. Not even Cadillacs. I knew someone who bought a new Cadillac STS and he really wanted people to be impressed by it, but it simply wasn’t impressive. I was far more impressed with the… Read more
Thanks for the graphics. I don’t think anyone would argue that modern trucks are safer but the numbers show that pickup manufacturers are not using that extra space for safety alone. Read more
I see your point, but there is a sense in EVs that the market is still wide open. For many reasons, if not numbers, it is far more impressive to be growing sales in the rest of the world and ignoring China instead of growing sales in China and ignoring the rest of the world.
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ZTE being better quality than Samsung, now that’s a knee-slapper.
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What a ridiculous car. I wouldn’t pay a tenth of that. But I can relate to the irrational exuberance that allowed such a monstrosity to exist. If you didn’t live through the near-universal anticipation of Episode I, the urgent frenzy after we learned we’d get more Star Wars after nearly 20 years of waiting, it was… Read more
Teslas are great BEVs and I’m very happy to see more and more of them on the roads. Read more
It seems kind of cliche to glorify the Mini, but its ability to provide driving pleasure was a key distinction between it and previous people’s cars like the Model T and Beetle. Hopkirk was instrumental in making people understand its sporting potential. The racing Mini leads directly to hot hatchbacks in the next… Read more
Shameful as their efforts to cheat on diesel emissions were, they pivoted away from their fixation on diesel very rapidly. I don’t really know anything about their financial position at the moment, but they have made some credible EVs and my opinion of them has greatly improved.
Your level of trust is enormous. Relying on reviews and pictures alone for buying a new car is like buying a newly-built house sight unseen, just assuming it will exactly resemble the model online.
At what stage in this process do you get to drive the car before you buy it, to make sure it feels nice to drive and is ergonomic and practical for your individual needs? Read more
The word “storage” was not mentioned in my post. Read more
This is one of the weakest reasons I can think of to slow the conversion to renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions, but it’s likely to end up as a talking point on Fox News ad nauseam.
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Possibly, you feel that way because it is bucking a currently dominant trend, where exceptions to the rule are all either old or old designs. Time will tell if this new design is simply raging against modernity or if it’s an early example of the trend fading out. Our feelings about the design 10-20 years from now will… Read more
Although overall I do not like the design, I have to give a little bit of credit to the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer for rocking body-colored B-pillars. That’s pretty rare nowadays, particularly for something intended to be upscale. The Suburban and Expedition went to blacked-out B-pillars years ago, and Japanese +… Read more
Well, I never claimed that it was “illegal” that the employee was driving without a license, as I have no ability or intention to prove it in this specific case, but your statement that “operating a vehicle on private property without a license is not illegal” is not technically correct. Private property designed to… Read more
The kid was dumb for trying to do something he wasn’t trained to do, but they hired him knowing he couldn’t drive, and they were responsible for supervising him. I am staggered that they let him drive customer cars without a license even on private property, much less manual transmission cars.
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This whole article makes me very glad that I no longer have a gas mower.
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People’s faith is very important to them. Everyone is allowed to have their own private thoughts even if they are superstitions and fantasies. The more you attack those beliefs, the more deeply entrenched and radical they become. It is far more important to me that we make sure that using one’s faith to abuse the… Read more
“No true Scotsman” fallacy on the claim that Christianity is incompatible with abortion or IVF. A religion is defined by the actual practice that its adherents follow, and it is not reduced to a strained reading of certain portions of the holy texts the adherents *purport* to follow, particularly when multiple values… Read more