Since range is the primary determining factor on vehicle weight for electric vehicles, the range/capacity should be linked to purpose, as it largely has been for ICEs.

Not sure where you got the 50+% polling for Biden from, I’ve seen numbers as high as 49% though so I’ll buy that you found a poll at 50+.

Solid win by Usman, Covington is a racist troll so it was great to see his chin removed from his face. That said somebody’s gotta get a timer on Usman for that walk-out, it might have been the slowest one I’ve ever seen and it was at 1 goddamn AM on the East Coast, I was half tempted to root against him entirely out…

It’ll be interesting to see how things shake out with Chinese EV manufacturers over the next couple years now that the subsidies have subsided. They’re all getting punished on the market right now but they have been producing cheap EVs on a scale we haven’t seen anywhere else and at least a couple should be able to…

Yep... But in this case intimation is the worst form of flattery. It's designed for the needs of 1% of truck drivers which makes it total Overkill for the other 99%. That means in base trim it's pointlessly oversized and overweight. They'll snag some HD users but it's hard to imagine they'll draw many Taco/base F150…

These cars are easy to work on, the 1.8T was a decent motor capable of 250+HP with the right build, it's a manual, a wagon, what's not to like? Would be a great little commuter car. 

It has to be Cybertruck. It ‘solves’ a bunch of things that weren’t problems with trucks with its design anachronisms, it’s huge, it’s heavy, terrible visibility and it’s hideous to boot. The design itself is so bad that it can’t be separated from meta commentary about what exactly it says about our future: that we’re…

The biggest plus side of this trend is cheap tow-worthy SUVs on the resale market. There are a *lot* of used options under $5k with a 5K lbs+ tow rating. Meanwhile a friend of mine just spent $13k on a Tacoma with 100k+ miles, because bed tax. It used to be you had to pay that bed tax to get a tow vehicle.

I keep the nannies on while on the road. AutoX is great practice for learning the car's behavior without TCS and ASM, ABS is nice to have and only engages if you lock up the brakes, which you generally don't want to do anyways. 

I bought my PS3 a few months before the 4 came out, turned out to be worth it just for the Last of Us coming out for it. That 3 got destroyed in a house fire this year... The PS4 is tempting but this time around I’m going to wait it out and get the next gen. It’ll suck waiting months to play LoU2, but it’s crazy to…

I’m thinking it’s a Nibbler type situation — yes he poops, but only every few weeks and it’s dense like uranium. We’ve already seen that Baby Yoda can go seemingly days without a meal or water... so his metabolism must be pretty slow.

I’m talking pretty much performance cars. I'm tempted to get a used 500e for commuting because electrical is practical for a homeowner. For $40k there are a lot of other performance cars I'd want to get over a used Tesla. For $150k there are a ton of new and used options that I think would be more enjoyable, if not…

All three are skateboard style platforms, only the second is a performance car. It’s not mid engine, front engine, or rear engine, it’s electric engine. It’s AWD because AWD makes sense for electric performance. Something is being lost in character, we can debate how much that matters but that in and of itself is a…

Maintenance parts are super cheap! New springs, shocks, upper and lower A arms for front double wishbone, rubber for mounts, panhard rod and rear trailing arms came to under $600. Should have done the inner training arms at the same time, wish I hadn’t skimped on that. There were 125k sent to the US alone so there’s…

Haha, this gave me a chuckle. I’m all for giving new life to an old car. That’s a cool idea though, a way to quasi preserve the character... Not a bad way to go if a hard to replace drivetrain gives up the ghost.

I expect it to be the same soul that every other electric performance car will have moving forward. The chief differentiator of performance cars is going away, they’ll all be powerful, effortless and nearly uniform in approach and design. I don’t doubt it’s spectacular because it’s the first of it’s kind, but it’s…

I can’t get much excited about the upcoming electric era, the sameness and nonchalance it’ll all bring. There’s variety right now, different approaches to achieving speed and handling, and instead we’ll be entering an era of homolgomation of sorts, the power produced and stored only limited by battery technology and…

Haha! It's a Lampredi twin cam, probably one of the more reliable engines Fiat ever made, so that helps. I replaced the entire suspension so no problems there, electrical Gremlins have been the worst thing I've had to deal with, honestly. Granted it is not my DD, I've put less than 3k miles on it in three years, and…

I’m all for the electric revolution, but I’m hard pressed to consider anyone with that mindset a Jalop. Fast but souless, that’s the MO of electric cars. What is a ‘67 Chevy without the 427 roar? Is a 400 HP electric 442 as rewarding as the original burbling away?

I definitely wanted one of these. They looked like they'd be a blast with some practicality mixed into the small package. Pity they blew it on producing this. Would have brought life to the brand.