Never have I seen a car that was so thoroughly wasted. This is keeping the Mona Lisa in a dark closet where no one can view it. This is making a perfect filet and lobster tail, just to look at. This is reading Mozart’s music without ever playing it.
I will never understand the value of a thing when that thing has…

This is dumb. +1

Of course not. It’s a car.

Are you familiar with GAAP accounting, vs the actual marginal profit a car creates? Teslas cost less than they sell them for. The margins are near 20%. If you factor in all reinvestment, Tesla as a company isn’t making profit. Amazon didn’t make profit for years because they were constantly pouring money back into…

You only have to observe our president to know that the Russians have a wicked sense of humor.

People don’t buy them because they don’t want them.

A driver’s side Supplemental Inflatable Restraint System (air bag) is a standard safety feature.

They were light, simple, got good fuel economy, came with manuals, and... were incredibly slow, terrifying deathtraps.

If you’re using it to drive a generator, who gives a shit about torque? What you care about is power, and rotary engines make a lot of power for their size, which is their main advantage: high power to weight/volume ratio.

Enlighten me as to why you need a particularly large amount of torque for POWER generation?

Small for its power output, low weight and low vibrations, happy at high speeds? These are actually good characteristics to have in your onboard power generation system.

A couple of things make it not totally stupid. Small size and low weight for its power, as you mentioned. That’s actually kind of a big deal for a hybrid. Also, many of the issues inherent in rotaries are reduced when you only need them to spin at a fixed rpm while attached to a generator.

Westfalia 2.0. Let’s do this!

It doesn’t have much different b-pillar to front bumper gap than the Smart does, if it’s engineered right, I can see it doing decent.

Retro. Cargo version, shag carpet, CRT TV with rabbit ears (look it up, you youngsters!), CB, 8-track, reel to reel, hookah in the middle and some black lights overhead. Then I’ll ignore this modern world for awhile...

Actually, intangible windows are completely immune to blasts, they don’t take any damage from them at all.

Definitely not bomb-proof or even bomb-resistant. It doesn’t appear to have any armor. Weather-Tech bed liner isn’t bomb-proof or armor. The square sides will turn into Swiss cheese without deflecting any shrapnel. It’s sides and windows need to be slanted at a pretty good angle to allow bullets, shrapnel, RPGs etc to…

So are intangible windows.

AV Club game reviews have always viewed games from more of an artistic perspective. Exploration of themes and and stuff like that is just as important to these reviews as gameplay mechanics and graphics.

I actually really liked this episode, and think it represents a lot more than a “video game tie-in,” which I was initially afraid it would primarily be from the title.