Like so many other things, EV sales will increase rapidly, then plateau, then go up again, plateau, etc. Right now I think this is market saturation until some conditions change. Charging issues, price, and general (often mindless) resistance to EVs is definitely going to slow things down a bit. I think the next…

I don’t think Toyota can lecture me on EVs until they actually make a Prime for actual sale.

Shocking that people aren’t wild about $60k (at 7% interest!) cars with limited, often-broken charging infrastructure and insane repair and maintenance costs.

I am more worried about the 5G rollout activating the chip in my brain put there by the Covid Vaccine causing Marberg

The price is more right on this than anyone in here has admitted to so far. LOL at the number of posts thinking a 944 is a $5k car. It’s not 20 years ago anymore. $9500 is far from the top of the market on an S2. Something nice will set you back $20k..$30k if you have money to burn. So something less than $10k is…

Never gonna get a canal job with that attitude, friend. 

Glad we’re finally waking up. I saw a graph on New York Times today that showed the increase in top 10% of income increase directly disproportionally to the decrease in union memberships (so unions declined, wealth inequality went up). No one is saying CEOs should make as much as the line worker, we’re saying they…

I just don’t think it’s that desirable a vehicle when they put a big turbo and some suspension on built-to-price economy car. This is the kind of car people buy, because they can’t afford something like a BMW, it’s not THE BMW!

Performance is irrelevant when you can't afford the car.

I’d also like to mention the trend with Manufacturers and dealerships:

Dealership: Orders everything in black, white, and gray. Pushes sales on the cars they have in stock.
Manufacturer: *arms up in the air* Hmmm, I guess people don’t want to buy colorful cars, let’s stop offering colorful cars.

I posted this in an article on gizmodo but it feels more appropriate here.

Fucking assholes. And I know a lot of people are going to flame me for saying this but here we are in a world where people are literally starving or barely able to make it and then there are these kinds of people, blowing more money on a fucking parking spot for their stupid yachts than most people make in a year. …

which is like 85% of the time in these never ending zones. 

Me three. I’m fine with brutally heavy duty enforcement, but only when work is being done. Otherwise it’s just a money grab.

Exactly. It’s a “boy who cried wolf” effect. You see a work zone sign, then you drive and drive and drive with no sign of any roadwork, you assume maybe somebody forgot to take a sign down or something. Then you come around a corner and suddenly there’s a flagger there. The sign should be no more than half a mile from…

Make workzones smaller. When you see miles of highway blocked off works, but no sign of the works, then people learn to ignore the signs. Same as when you see workzones with nobody working at all, much less in just a small part. People, mostly(standard muh freedumbs crowd disclaimer), don’t mind slowing down and…

Stricter enforcement of actual work zones would be great, but only under the right conditions

I have nothing against automatic ticketing in construction zones, JUST TURN THE FUCKING CAMERAS OFF WHEN NOBODY IS WORKING.

“Prices rise like a rocket and fall like a feather.”

I just don’t go downtown unless I absolutely have to for some reason. Which is very, very rare.