Yes but at least with the Nissan versa, I can get parts at the AutoZone down the street. There are a zillion of them on the road. And if I need service from a dealership there's several of them within a reasonable drive. Currently there's only one vinfast dealer in the Dallas area and it's almost 2 hours away from me…

If an AI program even once suggested that the dealer price A Hellcat or a Cybertruck or a high mileage Versa for even more than the dealer’s first guess and some fool actually paid it, it’s going to be really hard to shake their faith in the all-knowing AI.

A Ssangyong Rodius is almost, almost, better looking than a Cybertruck.

I get the historical/economic significance of K cars, I really do, but I maintain, in contrast to what Lee said about them, they weren’t cars you wanted to buy—they were the cars you had to buy (if you didn’t want Japanese) because they were cheap and plentiful. Growing up with these things almost turned me off of…

I think there may be a little hyperbole going on with McLaren claiming everything to be “new”. The Aerocell is a good example. I suspect that more aspects of the car are likely similar, but you don’t market your multi-million dollar toy by telling potential buyers that it’s just an incremental improvement of what…

Another unusably fast, unobtainably expensive supercar that will almost exclusively be purchased by middle eastern oil barons and stored indefinitely with delivery miles in a sealed warehouse. The writeup/article is good and I don’t want to discount that, but man it is hard to care about new releases like this.

They were supposed to but the whole thing turned into a corrupt mess bc everyone insisted on being included on the line which gradually made it unworkable. It makes zero sense that there aren’t more trains in CA, the traffic is so bad and there’s so many people that need to get places. Instead we get even more wastes…

Yup I have worked in real estate on the title side and have a LOT of experience in working for various agencies trying to get ROW to build a road or something. It is always a huge pain and it takes literally years. They are trying to cut through highspeed rail in the county east of where I live in Texas, it’s almost…

They’re working on it.... But it’s been a quagmire. There’s supposed to be an LA to Vegas train “in the works” but I’m not optimistic.

Because wealthy people do not WANT a easily accessible high speed rail to popular destinations. The last thing they want is more of THOSE people going to THEIR special spots.

may simply be French spelling

Tesla Superchargers were built to serve their own product. Hence cable length and placement. Once they started opening up to other brands did the issues creep up. I got bitched at by a Model Y owner once for blocking a spot at 16 stall location that was empty. I told him to email Elon to complain, fucker parked next…

6.5ft vs. 10ft?  Copper thieves just made 153.8% more profit!

Well, we already have Altima Man attempting a drive-by with a pellet gun...!

True. That being said, I did a quick estimate of where the median is based on the top selling vehicles in 2023. I think the Median and the mean are pretty close.

and a bag phone (remember those) for the rest

Agreed. The problem I have is that there are numerous morons in this:

I remember the Seinfeld episode when Manhattan got a new area code. They all complained about it and Kramer went to the other area code to visit someone and acted like he was traveling across the country.

It looks like a Civic Type R that was dragged through every aisle of an AutoZone.