Honestly, are most of them even really SUV’s to begin with? Most I see are CUV’s which in my view are just fat sedans with a slight lift. It really just seems the bubble cars of the future (1990s) turned out to be fat sedans.

Pretty sure this is very airline dependent. There are innumerable stories from friends and even my own experience of being offered Business/First Class seat. I’ve generally noted it’s given to a passenger who had airline specific delays/issues or many times I’ve seen a mother/child get the upgrade.

I’m sick and tired of “fan service” being tossed around. Yes, there is overt fan service where they pretty much beat you over the head with familiarity, which I am hearing for ROS

I think that was the thing that US/Canada bucked the trend for Miatas. In the rest of the world the Miata got identified as the “Hairdressers” car while in North America it has been pretty much a middle aged guys car for those who couldn’t afford a convertible Porsche or couldn’t see themselves in a Corvette.

The US is about the last market that sells the Miata on its website as MX-5 Miata... even in Canada the Miata name has been dropped for which I do not understand. Everyone talks about them as Miata’s, not MX-5s.

Except the plebs are the ones who emulate the rich and if the rich are ecofriendly, then the plebs will soon follow. Society is always a top-down approach. You didn’t get a backup camera because it was smart, you got it because luxury cars had it and plebs coveted it.

The electric future is going to be boring as a spectator.... 

Us Canadians when American’s talk about “socialism”

It all depends on what you do and where you are. I’m a first responded and I NEED consistency. I cannot drive into work in -30C weather with half my range gone or I forget to plug it in after getting off shift. 200mi range would be at the razors edge of my ability to get to and from work on a single charge... or I can…

They will probably never do the test as the Police Interceptor edition isn’t for public sale, however the police spec comes with a totally redesigned rear end for 75mph crash impact mitigation. Would be interesting to see if the front end was modified along with the rear end design.

The funny part about calling it a “Bladerunner” looking truck is that it looks like the lesser technological, non-flying vehicles of bladerunner, and not the ultra-high-tech flying cars of the same movie.

This is not some new strategy developed from airlines... airlines developed it from the automotive industry! Everyone working at Jalopnik too young to remember the ‘80s? Up selling anything from CD (cassette) players to recliner seats was all optional. It was done away with to speed up assembly lines and introduce a…

The new conservative government here allows a limited number of permits (high occupancy toll (HOT)) annually to be issued to drivers who want to drive in the HOV lanes regardless of occupant numbers. And the FINALLY allowed motorcycles to us the HOV lanes.

Oh you’re definitely right about the Miata being one of the best value track cars. The corvette is just one of your next best “budget” track cars when you have some more cash to throw around. 

You’d be very surprised to see TV storage vaults... typically a organizational mess with multiple different cataloging systems and general complacency to never audit or organize files. Files get pulled, and then never put in the right place or pulled and never checked out... becomes a logistic mess. Or its stored off…

Except you’ll be able to thrash the ‘vette over and over and when it does break, it won’t set you back like the German machines. Lets face it, the Corvette plays to real track people looking for a machine that meets racing performance value.

S0 building a mid-engine, multi engine/hybrid chassis, and coming in less than $70k is not innovating? The only thing the new Corvette has for brand loyalist is the fact you can fit a set of golf clubs in it. Of course its the midlife car, no one young could ever afford one, that’s why you had the Camaro. The idea of…

And at $1.62/lb for global Stainless Steel sheet metal, we’re in the neighbourhood of $2,000 for just the bodywork. Doesn’t sound much, but when vehicle profit margins are in the $2000-$5000 range per vehicle, expensive bodywork will really eat into those margins.

It will be interesting to see if your thought plays out about cost savings. Right now Carbon Steel for cars is hovering at $0.35/lb while Stainless Steel is at $1.62/lb... nearly a 5x increase in costs. There is going to have to be a wildly different design approach to reduce the cost of the CyberTruck.

Never stopped the Ted Bundy fans