Seriously. Imagine having the audacity to demand you retain employment when your position is made obsolete because of a change in the industry. It sucks, life isn’t fair. Adapt, learn new skills, pivot to adjacent industries. Grow up and stop expecting safety nets every where.

I don’t think you can really “learn” to drive a stick without actually driving one on a daily basis. Managing a clutch is something you have to do like 1000 times in a short timespan before you really get it down. Buut, once you get it down, it doesn’t go away.

Those aren’t phone dial wheels, these are:

I still don’t understand people’s obsession with fully switching to one thing and one thing only. You go 100% EV and now mining/harvesting of the lithium or other metals increases, power generation/usage increases, you have to think about where to build charging stations, as well as a standard on charging ports, the…

You don’t want to be a truck driver. That’s why we have the problem we have now.

This geezer, who could circle the parts and stuff ordered lists in the dead-tree ordering device I could use in the late ’80s when I owned the car. Amazingly, people still repaired cars in the pre-Google era.

No, what’s sadder is complaining about the availability of an automatic that might allow someone to drive the car who otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

Ballons travel at the speed of the wind, which at altitude can be significant. 

By ‘75 they were building pretty decent water cooled cars. I’d argue what you’re seeing here is the value of persistence. Honda declared they were going to sell cars and they kept trying till they got it right.   

Hit me up. I'll give it the full Singer treatment. 

This is Shilling we’re talking about. His ability to write about anything other than a pro-union piece, while ignoring history and any other salient facts, is extremely tenuous at best.

“It’s really too bad that Toyota is now experiencing the consequences of its own actions.”

5th gear: Toyota was one of (if not the) first Japanese automakers to set up shop in the US using union labor, and they suffered the consequences after the NUMMI fiasco and witnessing the inability of other union plants to pick up on the improvements they made to their own. It took years (and many rounds of employees…

I’m going with the Burb too. If you get tired of the white you can have a vinyl shop do a zebra stripe pattern.

“The steer-by-wire system also eliminates annoying vibration from the road that normally transmits through a mechanical steering column.”

You’re asking $40,000 and you won’t fix the hole in the muffler? WTF? If it’s worth mentioning, then it’s worth fixing it. Jeebus . . . !

Those seat patterns alone make this an ND, gives me a migraine just looking at them.

Good luck finding a trucker to haul it there.

I say this as someone who likes driving fast, who owns fast cars, and who is generally skeptical of adding more bureaucracy to our lives:

Anyone who’s ever had a car overheat can relate to the anxiety that comes with sitting at a stoplight or in stop-and-go traffic for an extended period of time, nervously watching the needle and hoping it doesn’t start climbing.