No surprises here, really. At least Mercedes will keep some of the higher spec (and higher margin) models around a little longer. It sucks that we can’t get a cheaper version of the E-series wagon, but I get it. I hope a few of these model hold out long enough for some of the SUV obsession to die down (which is…

Yeah, I was fully expecting a lot of hate, and I get it, but I say good for them. It’s easy to throw shade at corvette owners, and at people that can afford these cars, but I see a group of folks that’s passionate about cars and respect that.

I’m with you on iphones, but bite your tongue on Star Wars. That’s a long tradition that has spanned generations. 

My parents live outside of Vegas, so it seemed like an obvious trip. But then I saw the same shit. I’m, like, 90% confident the quick “sell-out” of the tickets is either because they are going to release more or hotels or companies or someone bought them up to give to VIPs or whatever. But it made the prices on…

I was with you at first, but since the point is to show the capabilities of EVs and the drivetrain specifically, I get it.

They seem to have been trying to keep the Si performance the same for the last 10 years, which I don’t get. I think it’s adequate in a car this size, but the lower trims have gotten faster and it kind of makes the Si less and less relevant. So yeah, this tracks with that. At least VW has inched the GTI forward a…

The zipper merge is never going to happen in the US. We should know that at this point.

But standardizing the connectors is one thing, designing a truck around batteries that aren’t just easily removable but removable by a robot is another. And the design of the robot needs to be done hand in hand with all of that. We already know that designed-in batteries are a more efficient use of space than…

I think a big issue with battery swapping is, and has been, commonality between vehicles. And I think it would take a LOT of Volvo EV semis on the road to warrant them investing in it. But if it’s something that has some opportunity to it, it could make sense for the government to offer funding for the infrastructure…

It’s great to see the hourly workers get their piece of the action. It’s shitty to see the salaried workers getting less, especially after the cost cutting and slew of layoffs they’ve been having the last year or two. GM and Ford lured a lot of people away from Toyota/Honda/Hyundai/etc with bigger salaries and then…

Uhh, because infrastructure is communist, or something like that.

When the terrorists show up in their Hiluxes, the Good ‘Ol Boys with gun-rack-filled brodozers will be there to meet them. Maybe THAT’S why they need those trucks?!?!?

There aren’t a lot around anymore, especially up here in the Northeast where road salt ate most of them before I was even born (seriously, I though Beetles were some sort of ultra-rare import because I saw maybe a dozen of them growing up in the 90s. My mother later told me she had 2 of them in her teens/20s). In any…

I think it would be a safe assumption that a Mexico plant (or plants) eventually replace the Fremont plant for high volume manufacturing. Or at least they would leverage that option to put pressure on California for tax incentives.

Until you roll up to the counter trying to register an “MG”. Maybe you can convince them that, yes, a 1972 Midget is the correct car.

ND because it’s not going to be drivable (unless you have a private track or whatever) and being a test rig all that equipment in the boot went to random sensors drilled into parts that are going to need to be overnighted from Japan England.

I don’t want to come across as pro-Big-Oil here, and I’m definately down for windfall taxes when (if) there’s evideance that companies padded their profits to take advantage of an economic crisis, but .....

Maybe Canada is better at such things, but in the US you’d think “broke into the capital building” is the clear line between freedom of speech and treason, and that hasn’t seemed to cause many arrests.

I’d love to bike or take my moped to work. The problem is that the most direct route is all highway for about 10 total miles. Surface streets is 14 miles, half on 40mph roads. Also, western NY winters. 

True story. I live downtown in a medium sized city and about a 2 minute walk from a bus stop. I *could* get to work in the ‘burbs by bus, but it would be a 45 minute ride (with a transfer) and then a 15 minute walk on that end. Having that as an option puts me ahead of 90% of Americans, probably, so I’m lucky to have…