Apparently people hate on Elon because he allows actual free speech on his platform, not just the establishment approved variety. You have to be utterly brainwashed to believe that was a “nazi salute”, but whatever.

Had a 6G Bronco, and would hide a fob in a Faraday pouch, hide the fob in the Bronco and lock it with the key pad. No worries about losing the fob in the water or in other outdoors activities. One of the better ideas out there.

I owned an Aztek and the worst part of the thing was that it was made by GM. Leaking 3.4L intake manifold gaskets, a transmission that ate its gears at 60K, BCM that went progressively worse from merely draining the battery to leaving the power seats in an undrivable position, and the AC giving up about 2 years in,…

At the Detroit auto show, the “grill” such as it is, is a decal. Like a big old electric kids toy. Ugly and tacky. 

don’t egg them on. 

the max speed for switching from EV to gas has to be the dumbest thing to do to a motorcycle. Does any hybrid car do this? That’s clearly a danger zone and surely can’t be neccessary. It’s almost like Kawi asked “what’s the best way to screw up lane splitting?”

So the commuter/second car runabout is basically insurance and sales tax?

Belts are one thing, most people *should* know that they are a consumable maintenance item, but a chain should be a lifetime or close to it item. And yet since I Rover I know that ain’t so.

“a beautiful milled piece of ash”

They might be trying to get rid of some of their R1 inventory to clear the lots for the R2 coming up in the spring, sometime, according to the Rivian reps at the Detroilet Auto show. They had a R2 on display, the target baseprice is around $42k and if they can bring it in for that Rivian will likely have a competitve…

I’ve seen soda explode into instant brown icy foam, it’s an amazing thing to watch really. And keeping it in a snowmachine for a nice cool refeshing drink later dooesn’t work very well at all.

At the Detroit Auto Show GM was giving rides in the Hummer. Our driver reeled off the stats, 1000HP, 11,500 torques, motorcycle quick and.....weighs half as much as an Abrams tank. Might as well put treads on it. And he said it might need new tires after the show. 

It’s 11F in my garage and even colder outside, I’m hard pressed to check my oil and fill up the washer fluid.

These haven’t gotten any better looking over the last couple decades. The mind knows the performance is there but looking like an oversized Cavalier does it no favors. I’ll take my $18K and go shopping for a used Hemi Challenger instead, so I can turn around when I leave it and admire it rather that tolerate it.

And I would need that for less than $30K too, please. Guaranteed, in winter and in a rural area in case I did need to get a bit of liquid dinosaur.

Get back to us when it will do a 585 mile day on the interstate at 80 mph.  I’ll even allow for a 10 minute fillup in the middle. 

The products of the Indian Motorcycle Company are better than HD in pretty much every way and tend to cost less. The Scout is a fun ride, and the Roadmaster is what a GeezerGlide and a Gold Wing should be. And then there are those bikes made in India. Or the British bikes made in Thailand. It’s all getting crazy out…

I do like a British style twin, my present bike is a Triumph Tiger and as I get older I find swinging a leg over is getting to be a chore, and it might be time to swap the Tiger for an Enfield. Sure I could get a Bonnie but the cost of a Bonnie is a bit high. RE is making a lot of sense these days.

Japan wasn’t a communist nation using slave labor and selling organs. You want civilized markets you should maybe not be barbaric.

or as we called them “brodie bars” for their utility and efficiency for spinning bordies in icy parking lots or frozen lakes.