Maybe, but I have my money on SCOTUS absolving corporations of any and all liability, now and forever.

You’re not wrong by any stretch.  But no one can buy anything else you make if you don’t make anything else...

::sniff, sniff::

I mean, he wasn’t wrong about the Hemi. That motor has to be a boat anchor for the brand compliance wise, especially if no one buys anything else you make.

Direct sales. It’s what’s for dinner.

Simplicity and ease of purchasing is fine and dandy for ordinary, day-to-day items. Items that are only a few dollars. Maybe a few hundred. Cars are different.

Jaguar, Maserati, and Alfa are the three brands that never had a shortage of  cars on the lot even during peak pandemic. There was an Alfa dealer near my old house that had a perpetually well-stocked lot, and I bet you could walk in there and haggle your way down to a cheap lease deal on a Giulia any day of the week.

Yup. I’ve had a number of Jags over the years - it is true that ‘normals’ regularly come up to me and compliment my car and say “some day, if only, etc.” 

The “aspirational” car I hear the most from non-car-people is, confusingly, Jaguar.  There’s some weird disconnect for normal folks where Jaguar vehicles are both highly desirable and unattainable, when in reality, you can lease one for whatever amount you’re willing to pay the dealer.  

Perez will be fine, because F1 hates any kind of change or risk. He’ll drift from back marker team to back marker team for a few more years as those teams invariably decide proven mediocrity is preferable to taking a chance on a potential young star.

This is quality journalism. Undeniable facts, and nothing but.

ICYMI, there is a video of the arrest circulating on X. It clearly shows him failing the field test in his heavily urine-soaked pants.

I grew up in bumblefuck South Carolina. I don’t know that I ever saw pull-tab sodas, but I definitely saw leaded gas. Advertised proudly, like an idiotic badge of *courage* or some shit.

That last sentence is by far the most important. And the most correct.

I can’t imagine how you could not determine that a vehicle didn’t fit you on an extended test drive. Unless you didn’t bother to do one. Which would make you an idiot.

I am blown away that leaded gas was still being sold when I first got my license.

Oh, big same. I always say “better than bad does not necessarily mean good.”

You could pay me to drive one, but the windows better be tinted to hell, and I’m wearing a mask. But No amount of money will make me keep it.

I didn’t see one at all until pretty late this summer. I suspect it is because I live in a very, very blue area that basically stopped buying Teslas once Elmo took the mask off a few years back.

Funny enough, I don’t even notice them anymore, as big as they are, they kind of just blend in now. it was interesting for exactly 2 seconds when I was behind one last year, and then quickly faded.