The answer is a resounding yes. Either the people around you will understand that you’re attempting to minimise transmission risk and will keep their distance, or they’ll think you’re nuts and keep their distance. Either way, objective achieved.

Its not as stupid as you think it is. It is currently the only option for applications where energy density is of high priority. The average SUV buyer wouldn’t care if is car was 500kg heavier. A truck buyer would care about battery weight, as it reduces his payload capacity significantly while he also loses range.…

Suppose the fuel is made from recycled plastics? And not just specific types of plastic, but any kind, like straws and grocery bags and those little clips you use to tie bread bags closed?  what then, huh?

If you think that he’s only ruthless here, Brosnan and Dalton were both ICE cold at points. Dalton’s partner gets literally cut in half and his reaction is “that’s just and occupational hazard,” and Brosnan makes some really cold blooded kills.

“The following year’s From Russia With Love transformed Bond into an action franchise. Dr. No is very much a spy movie.”

In terms out outright off-road capability (i.e. the ability to traverse treacherous obstacles), I’m not so sure EVs will offer a huge advantage. ICE off-roaders have tremendous crawl ratios that yield loads of wheel torque even at low RPM, and they’ve got fully locked differentials ensuring that all wheels spin at the…

Even here in Scandinavia it’s still a treat to actually see one and they’re rarely this nice!

It would look like a bunch of angry, overwrought plastic with not even a tenth the cool factor of this thing. This Sugga isn’t trying to look cool, it’s just what happened when the 1950s Swedish military needed an offroader but didn’t have the budget for an all-new design. Modern cars all try way, way too hard. This…

To me it’s a statement of fact, Tesla’s are luxury cars, for rich people. When did it become offensive to call a car a luxury car even Tesla? Exactly 0 people get offended when BMW, Mercedes, Infinity get called luxury cars. Tesla’s have yet to be be mainstream because they are not affordable except to wealthy people.…

hell of a lot of unnecessarily loaded language in this post like “whether or not building luxury cars could be constituted as essential”

Here’s a source (with suspiciously similar language, FWIW):

And the fact that gas is so cheap now.  

I don’t see how they can survive without raising more capital. They have $7 billion in cash and their sales were already flat or declining in most markets outside of China before covid-19. Now they have probably an evaporation of demand globally, and they still have to service $13 billion or so of debt. They won’t go…

Personally, my hope is that out of this we redesign how unemployment insurance works in this country.

In my area, every member of the Yoga Pants Mafia that lives in the exurbs can’t get enough of anything that says “Denali” on the side.

Not really. I'm a Ford guy and it's not hard to realize that the new Silverado and all its platform siblings will sell well enough. Same holds true for the new Tahoe and suburban. 

Desirability is subjective, right? I know it was just a lighthearted dig but lots of people desired their Silverados or Canyons or CT6s or TourXs or Bolts or whatever.

All the soccer moms by us seem to love the Traverse.

Rooftop Solar will never offer enough usable range. It takes a lot of power to run an EV. Most EV batteries hold enough charge to power your house for several days. You aren’t recharging them quick enough with the small area of their roof.

“In my mind, GM’s biggest marketing challenge isn’t whether it accepts government help or not, but making a single car outside of the Corvette and (possibly) Camaro that is remotely desirable.”

At least Mack’s takes were hot and correct.