I think the commuter car category should also be the electric vehicle category all in the same. That’s where it would benefit everybody the most.

I hope to one day have enough money to go to Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and buy an incredibly beautiful and rare car, and then chop the roof off with a sawzall right there, just as a big middle finger to people that put material things like that on a pedestal.

Just because a car is design intent, doesn’t mean that designer did a good job. 

If I had a classic car and someone told me “don’t modify it or chop it up” I’d immediately get my saw out and cut it right in front of them. I get a certain joy out of purists and enthusiasts getting all worked up about what someone chooses to do with their own car. Like, if I have a Ferrari and wan’t to paint it…

I don’t think Evel Knievel would dare try to jump those panel gaps in the front end. Holy hell it looks terrible.

As a car guy and former technician, I will never lease a vehicle, or even buy a brand new one at that. I have no problem buying and driving high mileage shitboxes every day because I know the cars that I buy inside and out mechanically.

Which may actually still be the same car platform as the first 300 anyways

I buy and drive GMT800 SUVs and pickups and have never bought one with less than 165,000 lol That’s when they’ve reached max depreciation and can still be found with nice bodies and usually drive them to anywhere between 250k and 300k miles with nothing more than normal maintenance, and maybe some wheel bearings

Why would they invest in this when people can just drive around with the doors off? I’ve got to believe this option would cost the customer thousands of dollars, and then you need some place to store them when your regular doors are on, and it offers nothing that going doorless doesn’t offer

Yesterday’s Morning Shift: OMG GM lost $758 Million in the second quarter LOL!!1! GM sucks so bad!!!

hopefully covid doesn’t throw a riff in his plans

Yeah their new timeframe is Spring of 2021. Delays aren’t anything noteworthy, especially in these strange times, for any company, startup or legacy. So I don’t knock Rivian for an 8 month delay as I feel that’s fairly standard. I also don’t expect them to actually meet that time frame either, and wouldn’t be…

Right, but not every model is for the US market. When they claimed 20 EVs by 2023, that includes foreign market models as well.

I’ll be curious to see how many less manuals they sell now that they offer the automatic. I wonder if the shift will be so massive that Hyundai will end up dropping the manual all together

also how drag car’s sequential shifters work

Why would they invest in tooling to offer that option when you could just as easily leave the doors off all together?

I think it’s interesting that Honda went with the floating roof design like a lot of other car companies, but they went with the “floating” section lower on the D pillar as opposed to upper. I’m not sure which I like less.

I once took my Avalanche to go pick up a motorcycle. It was a full-size Harley, which comes in just under 8 ft long from tire to tire, and the seller was all confused when I showed up with no trailer. Blew his mind when I laid down the midgate, took out the glass, backed into a ditch, loaded it with no ramp, strapped…

Cabovers will never exist again due to crash test requirements.

fair enough. Must have been a little hard for people to justify a $45,000 truck that got 14/17 mpg when gas was $4/gallon and they had already lost their job and house.