Instead of regulating the car companies for emissions, regulate the customer.

This is a BMW that’s torn between two worlds: reasonably restrained and car-as-product, not automobile.

I had never audibly gasped at a car interior until today.  Yikes.  

Until the 60s/early 70s, it was still legal to deny women access to jobs, university, bank accounts, & credit lines for simply being women. It was standard practice to require a husband to sign off things like that. If being a wife is the only way to live in society, I imagine they wanted to make that happen just…

Is it really an opinion, when it’s based on statistical fact?

All cops are lazy.

Found the cop.

“$344,000 in options”

What’s the reason for police to need to be driving ON the actual beach, a place where people are likely to be lying down in the sand and difficult for a truck to see?

If Tesla had anything resembling an independent Board, they would have called Musk’s bluff a long time ago and told him to walk. It’s not like he designs, builds, programs or has any daily involvement in the development process.

In 15 years we’ll be asking ourselves why the American auto manufacturers failed, while the Chinese electric car industry took over the world. I wonder whether we’ll remember that day when the founder of one of the first and most important electric car manufacturers of the day browbeat shareholders into handing him…

Bronco: Hold my IPA.

Dear god even the crossovers are gaining weight.

and doesn’t think he’ll go back to Troy

Station wagons are more mom than dad. Dad drives a truck whose bed is 60% by volume composed of ratchet straps and old fishing gear.

Realistically today’s Dad (me) drives a decent sized 3 row SUV of relatively non descript looks / color. It has replaced the station wagon of the 60's-70's and the Mini van of the 80's-90's.  I’ve opted for a Mazda CX-9 but the epitome to me is a Toyota Highlander or a Ford Explorer.

Full sized pick up truck towing a fishing boat. 

The “I’m a dad who just made his last court-ordered child support payment” car.

I am not anti-car. I am anti-traffic. 

I’m guessing we will get this in the US, just as a better-looking (?)Mini Cooper. Good chance it’s the same the JCW version of the Countryman: