“He gave us the Hellcat.”

#2 It’s always the poop jokes with you, Torch. The most universal of humor.

“you should probably have dedicated engineers overseeing the testing of a self driving car rather than schleps”

One person made a fatal mistake, the entire department is shuttered. One of two things is true: Either Uber’s management believes that everyone in the department was equally incompetent. Or Uber decided this department was never going to return the money they’re investing in it.

One person dies and you throw in the towel? Come on Uber, that kind of thinking won’t make an omelet, much less put a man on the moon. Just think of all the investors out there with money you could be burning.

1st Gear: General Motors signs a letter to the President asserting that climate change is real.

“Interestingly, the biggest spike came from the millennials, Bloomberg says, with 64 percent now reporting they’re afraid to ride in an autonomous car, up from a previous total of 49 percent”

The real takeaway here is the amount of research the episode writers must have done to come up with this throwaway gag. The fact that it looks like a recognizable car, with barely plausible slavic writing and slogan, for a 30 second comedy bit is amazing. Especially considering they did this in 1992, without recourse…

Between where US 75 starts in downtown Dallas, to where it leaves the state into Oklahoma, it crosses about a dozen different municipalities. Every one of them adjusts the posted speed limit by 5 or 10 mph different from the towns next to them, over a range of 55 to 75.

And at every town, there’s a patrol car waiting…

You deserve to know that some people read the whole sentence.

What’s with the free advertising for LegalZoom? And why is it on the recommended articles rotation when there’s no comments?

“For what it’s worth, our own Jason Torchinsky once opened for Carlin a few years back.”

Somebody else made a really good reply to this in one of the threads. FCA did not make a mistake in this ad, and they did not miss the meaning of King’s speech. They made a calculated decision that their target audience - people who would buy a Ram truck based on an ad campaign - are exactly the kind of people who…

“The Continental is right in the thick of it, with the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes E-Class, the Volvo S90, the Cadillac CT6, the Lexus GS, the Audi A6, the Audi A7, the Mercedes CLS, I’m sure I’m missing another weirdly shaped BMW, maybe an Acura or two, I guess an Infiniti Q70, and on and on and on.”

Not that Oprah For President is a good idea, but the fact that she -does not- want to President automatically makes her better qualified than everybody who’s going to run.

If only there were some way to compress potential energy into a liquid so it could be poured into the batteries. I hear hydrocarbons are great for that, but nobody’s gotten around the production bottleneck.

Let’s count all the things that crash-protection rules won’t allow to survive into a production design:

I’m sure, somewhere out there, a show model or calendar pinup has posed with a Chevy Bolt. Even if it was just GM internal promotional material, it must exist.

When I saw the requirements I figured he would just be excluded, because Jeep never made a muscle car. But ask David for something wild that isn’t a Jeep and oh man he went to the damn moon. Best laugh I’ve had in ages.

The real problem is: I can’t stop thinking about how awesome a blown, lifted Trolley would be.

I get that a custom paintjob is going to cost a little extra, but Maaco will paint your car any color of the rainbow plus clearcoat for less than half that.