Just easier to say firewall than “thing that would be called a firewall in an ICE but pendants would disagreed with so I’ll call it a passenger divider, no not one like in a cop car but between the passenger cabin and the traditional ICE engine location which isn’t the motor location in this case"

Unless they’re going to have a fold down firewall (lol) to allow a pass through from the frunk to fit tall/long awkwardly sized items in, yes it's a big deal. It's not just about cubic feet of storage but about accessibility.

1st Gear: The Cars Are Better Than The Roads

Sounds to me like the wiz-bang cars are worse than the roads for now. The roads still function in their degraded states while the cars skitz out and cause poor execs to flip out. The worst drivers in the US handle it fine every day. Designing for the simple case is always…

I can't even tell if these are real.... Damn you.

I am not aware of any SCOTUS case where they’ve written on the forced franchise laws...I doubt the court as of January would have ruled in their favor if it made it up there; but yes, they essentially ruled that competition among manufacturers is generally sufficient to prevent perversion of pricing in the absence of…

Manufacturers setting a ceiling price on dealers has always been legal until 2007 setting a floor price was considered a violation of the Sherman Anti-trust act. That was overturned in Leegin vs. PSKS. Resale price maintenance is now judged case by case and is generally allowed as long as there is not collusion…

Nope, Convergys in OKC

I’ll wait until final production for price and weight before making the ultimate judgment...but it looks cool so leaning towards ‘good idea’.

Don't live there, but I've been out in San Jose/Palo Alto/Sunnyvale for a week or so a month for the last 7 years for work.

Because everyone speeds they have their pick of the litter. They tend to pull over the vehicles that have the best chance of having secondary violations. If you’re a boring looking dude in a boring looking car in CA you’re more safe (though they may just decide to grab you anyway); if you’re a punk looking kid in a…

My wife similarly wrung her hands about it. I just didn’t care. My only preference was that we have a same single last name for family life...whether that was mine, hers, or some third one. That’s just easier on everyone and there’s frankly no reason to saddle the children with our hangups. Professionally I would keep…

#1 car of my father's law firm. Seriously like 40% of the guys drive them. Never see them anywhere else.

You gotta stop trying to explain it. Being cripplingly afraid of driving is irrational. People literally cannot understand it because by definition it is not understandable. Various folks will empathize with you to degrees but they will never ‘understand’. When you try to reason out your irrational thoughts with…

Exchange rate only applies if you were buying the car in Europe and shipping them over. Different markets have different price points and the US typically gives the consumer more buying power. Good rule of thumb for car prices is take the price number in pounds and add ~7-8% and that'll be ballpark to USD. So ~34k USD…

4th Gear: ”They’re still better than we are”

Haha, barely. USA is #11 in the report and both are comfortably in the top 10% of nations.

Fair price for a car I have negative interest in ever owning.

Every time they mention the winners or do a full report some commentors go all nuts because they recorded it and now they were spoiled. Every time they just write about a few interesting events but avoid the ‘spoilers’ a different group of commentors get all up in arms about not having a full report.

Corolla = Katamari?

Fraud is typically done deceptively (ad does not match intended sales condition, sell knew this when completing the sale) with intent to delay (done across the country, couldn't be found out for some period of time) the victim from noticing. Theft is typically immediately noticeable. They're both 'stealing'.

They were the TV antennas. Most limos I'm aware of don't do OTA TV broadcasts anymore, and the ones that do probably use things like windshield mounted ones instead.