Kirk’s 1965 Corvette in the Star Trek reboot. The Corvette helps represent the bad boy, rebellious behavior. It also is a call back to the history of the early space program where astronauts were known to drive Corvettes.

IIRC  The GM product placement in the Matrix was more to highlight the new Cadillac CTS.

You should have seen SUV and truck prices in 2008 when gas jumped up to over $4.00/gallon. I was able to get a current generation Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer for under $10k.

This is still capitalism. Though the manufacturer will have no issue selling every Z06 they product they have decided that their retail partners (dealerships) could create too much negative publicity/hard feelings by charging over MSRP. This negative publicity could then affect sales of other products, i.e. trucks, or…

The destination fee is not a “low-rent auto industry gimmick”. It is required by law.

Microsoft will continue to make consoles as long as they can sell, and they are selling very well.  But ultimately they want to push everyone to a cloud solution similar to Stadia whereas hardware is no longer barrier to entry.

Efficiency has definitely improved over the years.  I remember back in the 90s when a laptop was lucky to have 1 hour of battery life.  The difference in performance between those processors and current phone processors is several orders of magnitude.  It’s just that with increased efficiency comes increased…

Those stills of the Original Gameboy display mode are spot on, but does it simulate the ghosting as well?

Honestly, if we hadn’t switched to digital TV in 2009 it would have probably worked.

The only GameBoy games I know that had issues with save files were Pokemon Silver/Gold which also used that battery to run the internal clock on the cartridge.  However, I could imagine this getting a Save State feature if it doesn’t already have it.

As an American, while we learn of the SS in school, it doesn’t quite have the same cultural significance here as it would in Germany and Europe. This would likely be similar to KKK being taboo in the US but not having near the cultural significance outside of the US. As far as the SS branding goes, it stands for Super…

But it took over 3 months while he was in jail for that to happen.

Did you even read the article or is this sarcasm?

The last pickup I owned was a ‘98 F150 stepside.  There were so many times back then I wished I had that feature.

While the sound quality isn’t the best it’s nice to have native controls for just picking a channel (genre) instead of fiddling with the phone after I start the car.  However, I will say it is overpriced.  I only get it if I can get the $5/month deal.

As someone who lives in a state that gets both hot and cold weather, I 100% disagree with your statement about heated seats and steering wheels. I will even go as far as to say I would be hard pressed to consider a daily driver that also doesn’t include cooled/ventilated seats.  In terms of touchscreen controls.  Yes…

Because your car feels like a cave when you don’t have one.  This is coming from the person who ordered a Camaro without the sunroof just to have the extra head/helmet room.  But all of my other vehicles have a sunroof.  It’s a nice open feeling without nearly as many downfalls as a convertible.

The local Meijer just had some Tesla chargers installed. Seems like a good way to entice people to shop there vs Walmart. Another prime place for this would be restaurants and hotels.

Aluminum foil.  I know people that work at a well known brand of aluminum foil, and they also make the generic store brands as well.  The store brands are made at half the thickness of the name brand.

While I wholeheartedly agree that we need Fusion power if we want to have any hope of maintaining our lifestyle, but I think you are confusing fusion power having few consequences with unlimited free power. While fusion, in theory, is free from many of the negative consequences of our current forms of both “non…