All of this is mostly pointless and useless information

...aaaand I stopped reading. All I’m seeing is a bunch of weird anger porn based on some vague tweets that seems to have gotten a bunch of panties in an incomprehensible bunch.

Same. I wonder if it’s an age thing. I’ve driven a handful of (not my) BMWs here and there, and I get it - effortless rear-drive power with knife-like handling. But, I’d never want to own one, hell no. Every family member and coworker I’ve known to own one extols their virtues out of one side of their mouths while…

Nuclear is a great solution, and it gets a super unfair shake because of people’s misconceptions. It’s pretty much carbon neutral. The problem is we can’t seem to build a nuclear plant for cheaper than double-digit billions of dollars. We’re actually cancelling projects, not because of a “nuclear fear”, but because of…

Is this... is this an ad?

This was the absolute car of my dreams for the whole 4th grade. The following year, it had been replaced with the rightful king, the 1969 Mustang Boss 429. (When I was 10/11 in the early ‘90s, I had no idea yet how ridiculous this dream would eventually be - not just for the $100K these go for, but for the fact that…

lol what a bunch of old haters

I simply will not buy a car without keyless entry and keyless ignition. My current daily is my 4th car with both, and when I have to drive a car with a keyed ignition, I have a tiny, silent rage about it to myself. I will never go back. Does that mean you should? No, and I don’t care. However, just a perspective from…

Can confirm. I drive a 2016 Optima SXL Turbo. Bought it used for $20k 20 months ago at 38k miles (50k now). No issues, regular maintenance since.

If I may speculate, maybe he selected Drive instead of Reverse, turned the wheel most of the way to the right so he’d back out of the space in that direction, and dipped his toe in. Went charging forward and to the right, perfectly through an opening just about the same size as his Corolla or whatever.

Yes, this exactly. Toyota did the equivalent of how Japan introduced analog 1080 resolution TV on huge ol’ CRTs back in 1980. Japan had HD TV before I was born, and I’m a grey-haired parent suspiciously watching age 40 approach quickly on the horizon. In most countries, we completely skipped that part, because it no…

Well, they did kinda limit themselves to the Cruze platform. Which.. I mean, you can stretch things, but it was never going to look like the concept.

My long Hybrid rant because I’m on-call for work and bored.

Let’s start the chant now... “Le-gend... Le-gend... Le-gend...”

Hot damn, now that’s what I’m talking about. Long, low, cab-rearward... this is what a badass reimagining of the Mazda 6 could have been. If it were translated about 90% from concept to build (obviously, the opaque glass and tiny side mirrors would have to go), I’d seriously consider it for my next ride.

The article itself takes great pains to differentiate NOx emissions from CO2. You are being obtuse so that you can play “devil’s advocate”, but really, you are intentionally obfuscating the issue with bad-faith noise. Liquidwombat saying “we’re not talking about CO2 we’re talking about nitrogen oxides” is not, as you…

A committee... to guide standards and rules behind Autonomous Driving. To make it safer. Or, the opposite of dangerous, if you will. Do I really need to spell this out for you?

“Commerce” and “Capitalism” are not the same exact thing. You can support “free trade” with sensible regulations and caps and get called a “socialist” these days because some “news” outlets (all of them) decided that it was a good buzzword to rile up the confused and reactionary (AKA, most of us Americans).

Yes, as in money earned by people on the backs of a massive, interconnected web of social programs. I love how libertarians love to start the clock on when money is “theirs” precisely when it gets to their bank account. How it got there? Who cares? I have it now, so fuck you (basically)