I used to live in CA and saw the same thing: helmets that meet the bare minimum as required by law.  Skull caps, as you said.  It’s insane.

Tobacco users pay more for both health insurance and life insurance. In many cases, the difference is not small.

Absolutely. This shit always goes back to executive leadership, because by law (that’s how fucked up everything is) all they focus on is shareholder value.  Producing products or services is just a byproduct.  Unfortunately, all shareholders care about is stock price/dividends/etc.  If cutting 15% of the workforce…

In fairness, the same is true at pretty much any publicly-traded company without a unionized workforce; they just don’t get Musk’s press (mainly because they don’t act like toddlers). My current employer is firing veteran engineers with decades of experience because they don’t want to move to Texas or some other…

LOL come on. Every MBA everywhere knows that when the stock price is struggling and you don’t have a quick way to jump revenue, you lay people off.

You’ve never lusted for an XJ-S? When I was in high school, I thought they were the sexiest fucking things I’d ever seen. And to me, a V-12 sounded (in my head) like a super-rare unicorn, and (in my ears) like sex probably did (shut up, I was in high school, ok).

Ah but Aston-Martin didn’t make the Cygnet!  Toyota did!

I adore the adaptive cruise on my Lexus, and I shan’t give it up.

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Are there people out there really waiting for this movie?

WTF shitty phone have you been using that an update makes your MP3s stop working?

Lexus is your brand then. When I got mine, I almost guffawed at the CD player, but they know their target demo very well.

That has literally never been an issue for me.

THANK YOU.  The weird fetish for minivans around here baffles me sometimes.  If I want a crossover instead of a minivan, I’ll get one, and you crossover haters can fuck right off.

People to suddenly stop being idiots.

Yeah, the constant shitting on Toyota for their focus on HEV/PHEVs instead of a fleet of EVs baffles me.  DISCLAIMER: I own a Lexus HEV.

I’m not taking a shot, here. I’m just saying that I have never felt more disconnected from Batman in my life. This, to me, is unrecognizable.

THANK YOU.  I struggle to see this particular move as anything but a good thing.  Or are we just shitting on all Nixon moves because Nixon?

Agreed!

Can’t speak to the Telluride, but my girlfriend has a Sorrento and it has the old-fashioned foot pedal to engage/disengage the ebrake.