Or as subaru/toyota found with the BRZ/whatever, if you spec hard eco friendly tires on a RWD sportscar, you get sooooo much more drama- apparently when spec’d with the tires off a prius, the BRZ is all skids and drifts all the time.

The Tesla “handling” claim is maneuverability, not handling.

15 years ago in cycling, the only tires you would be caught dead with on a road bike were 23mm, pumped up to 120+PSI. This was just how it was done. And people would argue ad nauseam that the 23s were faster and handled better and anyway they have to be better because that’s what the pros ride and the pros only ride…

I was going to stick with the FSD letters and call it Full Self Destruction, but unfortunately while I have no problem with the self destruction element, it’s what and whom else they destroy that I have the problem with.

Former Jalop writer Jason Torchinsky had a great take on where we are with driver assistance. Which is that the current level of autonomy is far more dangerous than driving one’s self.

It’s ridiculous that a system that requires a drivers full attention can easily let a driver completely ignore the operation of the vehicle. I see far too many Tesla drivers on the highway just staring down at their phones. The driver is certainly at fault, but so is Tesla for designing and implementing a system that…

The Avanti also made liberal use of the parts bin AND used fiberglass body panels. If something mechanical broke you could pull a spare from another studebaker or a monte carlo or a caprice that was produced in huge volume. The investment in making replacement body panels wouldn’t be huge for a small parts house. The…

You know who finds and documents edge cases? That’s right Quality Assurance engineers, not customers...well, unless you buy a Tesla in which case you are an unpaid QA engineer.

That was an edge, yes.

Lack of Fisker’s cloud software would be annoying, but mainly it’s for the phone-app (which lets you see where your car is, and send addresses to the car’s nav). The built-in 4G connection is likewise useful for the maps updates and streaming music. But, we already know we can stream music from a Wi-Fi connection to…

i wish PCH would make a return.

At this point it seems like anything other than garaging a Tesla constitutes "operator error", so I guess you get that one.

The ‘84 had the 4+3 transmission, which had overdrive on the top three gears, but I believe effectively worked as a normal 4-speed (you could turn the overdrive off, and when it was on it worked based on throttle load). They skipped over the 5-speed straight to a 6-speed in ‘89, which was the one with the skip-shift,…

Obviously the DeLorean.

From the blurb above, this reads like they screwed up the fine print in the ads and didn’t bury the proper disclosures in the paperwork.

My first car that i bought myself was an 84 corolla automatic, and it had a full on t shifter in the floorboard (no console in that car that i remember, but MILES of leg room) , despite being an automatic. It was not a great car, but i loved it, and i miss it.

You do realize column shifters don’t mean you can’t have your normal two stalks, right? The last vehicle I had with column shift had three total stalks. It also had a physical on/off switch for cruise control that I sorely miss because I could just leave it on. I really miss my mid-90's Yukon. 

FYI sysadmins are always people to cherish because they’re trying to keep things going. The problem here was caused by a mistake made by a DEVELOPER and then a whole failing chain of QA people who thought it was fine to push an update to hundreds of thousands of system, automatically, all at the same time (same day),…

I will not bother with any attempted revival of the Grand Tour unless they can sign Rowan Atkinson or Alexei Sayle.

Some residents have taken to parking their trucks in a pay lot over half a mile from the neighborhood,