Google is a monopoly on search. Facebook is a monopoly on social. All it means is that you control over 70% of a market, and your next biggest competitor is struggling with a ~10% share.

LOL. A chevy malibu with a battery pack is not the future. It’s everything you hate about cars, and everything you hate about battery packs in one shit sandwich.

Link to power outages, blown transformers, and warnings from the utility company that they are not prepared to sell an extra $1 of power per day.

Boo hoo. These guys are always crying about money, trying to get more breaks from the state. We’re probably better off if some hedge fund buys it on the cheap and manages it well, rather than these dudes who got in over their hands and still want to be rich.

Your insinuation that 10 million US households charging electric cars on 240V outlets would take down the electric grid is absurd. If you only drove 40 miles, you don’t actually need to recharge every night. Even if you did it would only take 40 minutes. The grid sees most of its usage during the day when businesses…

Sounds like middle of the country problems. All of the supercharger stations I’ve seen in California were in the parking lots of greater attractions. A steakhouse on a ranch, a vineyard, a nice hotel, etc.

You don’t recognize that Elon is building a monopoly on electric car production and components by now? And he has a 10 year head start on those other manufacturers? By the time Porsche has a full electric it’s going to be $150,000 (like Tesla today) and Tesla will be churning out $39k full 275 mile range models for…

So you’re so rich that you’d rather pay $90 for gas on your road trip than wait an additional 20 minutes to top off range on an 8 hour leg? Come on.

The 2.9L was the old motor. The 2.7L replaced it and is in the current 2015 until the 2016 arrives with a 2.0L turbo flat 4.

981 Boxster is understated mechanical perfection in an affordable low power dose, with the joy of the magnesium plate backed soft top down in 8 seconds. Subaru engine is too unrefined, gears are notchy.

So this guy just has a $20,000 clutch bill and a $15,000 tire bill every year?

Pop up headlights.

Because they can.

Comedy gold. Thanks for this article. Best line:

This is the best SUV on the market but it’s still closer in driving dynamics to a Ford Expedition than it is to a 911. I want to like it as a driver because I love it as a passenger. It just doesn’t meet the definition of driver’s car. The hood and front section are massive. I actually prefer a Ford Mustang in terms…

The piss is really bad. I used to live in Arlington. I mean, it was pretty cold 4 months a year until it gets unbearably hot and humid for 4 months a year. Lots of overcast days, rainy days, etc.

It can do a 1:42 at Laguna Seca. If you drive any slower than 1:42 at Laguna Seca, it’s faster than you. Ruining the best feature of the car - light weight - by adding a GM motor won’t make it faster. The Cayman GT4 was supposed to be a supercar and it’s not winning any contests because horsepower was never the…

You should get on an airplane more. You’re coming across as very provincial.

I mean, what’s wrong with a 2016 Boxster base if we’re into this job for $50k and a ton of risk? We can even get financing at 2% instead of putting all of this crap on an AmEx card at 15%. I heard it’s like one of the best sports cars ever and has enough power to go around most American tracks faster than most of us…

I’m confused. Do people buy work trucks for trends or utility? I thought it was utility.