Jim Chanos, a well-known short seller and investment manager, says that the outlook for Tesla’s stock price is grim.

Basically Toyota was waiting for someone else to do the R&D on batteries. Likely what Chrysler is doing too

Naming your kid is the one time the Otto cycle is better than Wankel.

Ooh, this begs the question: will there be a GT500R to follow?

Baku, Sochi, and Abu Dhabi are moneymakers (at least they were for Bernie and FOM). I don’t think they’ll go anywhere for awhile.

It looks like the panels were machined out of a giant pearl.

Every autocross event I’ve been to always has tightening rows of cones on either side after the lights, and they still count as +1 even after the end of the course. I remember trying at an event once just what you talked about (with a corner right before the finish) and just chucked the car through. I took out a few…

...this six-cylinder diesel...which he got up to 2,200 horsepower before things went south. He’s still investigating exactly what went wrong.

Or not enough downforce, depending on how you read it.

Those colored Pirelli sidewalls look good on a white car.

I would say conservative environmental protection groups exist. Anyone electing republicans at this point has environmental protection at the bottom of the priority list or doesn’t want it at all.

Hmm. I’ve been really considering doing some switching around on credit cards, but I currently have a 2.5% cash back card at USAA. If even the Chase deals don’t beat that, I wonder if there’s anything out there better.

I get coal-rolled all the time when I’m biking here in Texas. I’m sure if I ever develop lung cancer I’m going to question whether cycling was good for my health.

Didn’t you just speculate on demand, though?

We’ve already had three electric Minis in the states before:

Are you guys not using Uber for those things?

So his sweaters don’t do it for you?

COTD isn’t usually this buried.

Two quick notes:

Hit the pace car!