Because PUT AN LS IN ALL THE THINGS.

Well you can just stuff the fob in with the wallet and phone in that cubby. You don’t have to insert the fob anywhere to start the car.

So Ford just needs to build a continuum transfunctioner.

I drove a Mitsubishi Mirage. That ruined the Mitsubishi Mirage.

EVs for enthusiasts will come after profits are significant for EVs overall. EVs are a niche right now. Two major reasons we are several years away from “enthusiast” EVs (if you don’t count Tesla with Ludicrous mode and BMW i8 as enthusiast cars - I’ll assume you mean cheap enthusiast cars):

ESPN did this back in 2010-ish for an Xfinity race. The pit reporters were still the journos but everyone in the booth was drivers. It was actually really good.

If there’s any people on earth that could just refuse to let the sea take over, it’s the Dutch.

It makes me very uncomfortable that they picked my hometown of Kansas City to call out on that map.

The market as a whole did way better than that. Money in a total market index would have netted you another ~50% in gains.

I wasn’t really speaking from a sales or volume standpoint. More like a corporate structure perspective. From that view, Ford seems more compact and has it together. FCA seems very dispersed and has lots of levels, regions, and entities to manage.

In the 2008 crisis, it seemed like Ford was a bit more nimble and able to adjust. I think we’re seeing the same thing here. A bit more foresight and maybe they just aren’t as big and unwieldy as FCA and GM, so their freight train can stop a little easier.

Don’t I already do that by looking at advertisements on every Jalopnik page?

I tried out a kindle paperwhite on my last trip and found it easier to hold than a 7-plus or a Note 7. They’re pretty much the same volume of device.

1 - sedan

I don’t really care about diesel. I just want to take a moment and commemorate Mazda returning to the morning shift.

and debt!

Seat belts for everyone is a federal law now, I think.

Rather than trying to put a monetary value on someone’s life, I think it’s okay to define the economic benefit a person brings to the GDP each year. If you lose 20 years of someone’s working career, you lose so much GDP, etc.

I went to lunch with a guy the other day who didn’t put his seat belt on. I asked him why and he said it was because the government required him to. I did a straw poll back at the office and this thought process was more widespread than I thought.

This is a really good point. We still see the japanese automakers as the bastions of mechanical reliability. I wonder who is going to come out on top in 20 years as the reliable brands with all this new electronic tech in the cars.