CBS News teaser on national news last night: “Gas prices to skyrocket from oil spill.”

Another reason to not trust the media.

“patched it up with jb weld”

Anyone on a two-lane (each direction) interstate stuck behind an asshole semi-driver in the fast lane that doesn’t have the speed or desire to pass the 10 trucks in the slow lane for miles on end.

4th Gear:

This exert from the first sentence is hilarious: “keeping communication good”

I don’t think I’m alone in stating that I’ve never had a Volvo in my dreams. A vulva maybe, but no Volvos.

You gotta love the handjob gloves.

I was in between jobs and I drove for Uber for a while as an experiment. It is not a horrible job if you drive regular hours in a suburban setting, but you cannot make any more than McDonald’s wages.

FYI: In many areas of the country surges have largely disappeared making matters worse.

Maybe this photo with the Ranger superimposed (actual scale) will help.

Interesting. Unfortunately, most of the models on the water and in rental fleets are older models.

1st Gear:

And it will cost $50k, deeming it irrelevant.

And unlike motorcycles, there are no brakes. We’ve seen a dozen gruesome collisions and/or near misses (buoys, docks, boats, even water skiers) at our lake house over the years. Even non-racing models can go 70 mph+.

That’s a lot of work for a shot that could be composited in Photoshop in about 20 minutes.

FYI: All Canadiens are rednecks.

2nd Gear:

If they kill the GTI altogether I will take real notice. I am still in love with my 2011 4-door Autobahn Edition and plan to buy another, should this thing ever die.

This, of course, is and will remain to be, the biggest obstacle to the widespread adaptation of electric cars. Most people are not going to go out of their way 5o miles and sit around for hours for a recharge. It ain’t going to happen.

The argument that most people only drive 3o miles a day, or whatever, may be true,…

Based on the EPA’s track record of mileage ratings, this means that the Bolt will have 150 miles of range in real world driving.

I give up.