It’s infuriating that the shade-tree advice of a bunch of out-of-touch X-ers and Boomers has infiltrated the car culture to this degree. TTAC got so bad that I just quit. Bring up loans and cash in most comment sections and it feels like half a dozen people are just sitting around waiting to tell you what an idiot you…
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This. 1000x this..
Car loans provide an advantage over paying outright as long as the interest rate is below the rate of inflation and rate of return in the market.
“Hyundai has rewarded the driver, one Farrah Haines, with a brand new replacement for the high mile hero."
I’m honestly confused, because I general don’t give a shit about anything Musk does that isn’t car related: I thought this thing was more proof-of-concept regarding the speed at which they can drill a tunnel, and the footprint within which they could do it in. Was that tram/descending platform also supposed to be part…
You guys really hate Elon Musk. It’s a test tunnel. They can do other stuff too.
You describing the actual regret and fear as you got to the grid and prepared to race in a “survival mode” is literally identical to what everyone in iRacing goes through when they start with a rookie license.
Wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not.
It was 2,000 words on how lazy and patronizing the representatives of Geely are. Also their disregard for safety and lack of organization. This is a massive company that builds road missiles. You should expect more of them.
There’s a concept, an attitude, in Chinese culture, called “chabuduo.” An essay in Aeon describes it as cutting corners, getting something only 70 percent done instead of 100, or as we’d say in America, “good enough for government work.”
I have family in China and this seems like a lot of the situations they put me in. Safety definitely comes 3rd or 4th to them. I complained when we took our 18 month old child to China and everyone laughed when we tried to get them to use a car seat. They were like no one does that. Then I saw people driving mopeds whi…
This makes my local Miata club autocrosses look like F1.
Of all the cars that they can “China Copy,” why did they go with Subaru Impreza? That would not be the first pick if I had any say in it.
Been to China several times. Story checks out. This is exactly how I would expect an event like this to be organized.
How many social credit system offenses did you rack up? Or were you a good communist?
When I first laid eyes upon one, I thought “what kind of sadist would want to drive this fucking thing?”.
“the Rolls-Royce of raccoon lairs.”
Something that stands out to me is that today’s cars are getting almost too nice. Looking at the new cars on the list, every one of them is ragged for being basically being boring. “Driving it feels like going to work in a fog because you slept poorly the night before and when you get home, you have no memory of what…
The EcoSport was built for India, not the US. I test-drove one out of curiosity.