For those wondering “El Born” is a historic area of Barcelona, where SEAT is based.

OMG. You know you’re old when you reference this commercial, and no one understands what you’re talking about. To put this into context, I mentioned this commercial to a friend a couple of months ago, and they had no idea what I was talking about.

Companies looking at Elon Musk like:

I think you hit on it though - trucks are protected from market forces making them artificially accessible. If that went away the ‘problem’ would mostly solve itself. 

Lot’s of comments about personal views of vehicles, but the most important point was the first paragraph:

The stall feature is a good idea. Nothing builds character like stalling your car 3-4 times on a hill with people honking at you from behind. Today’s kids need to feel that level of frustrated embarasment.

The installation didn’t go that smoothly, the barbs still caused cuts in Vlad’s hands despite him wearing thick welding gloves

Reader: “Hey do you want this 19 year old, $5000, 275k mile lexus? It’s falling apart to the point that I can no longer maintain it”

DT: “Whoa, shouldn’t this be reserved for a Hollywood director, or a Russian Oligarch, or a successful startup founder?” 

There’s only two things I hate: people who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch!

Jason, your problem is that you’re American with tastes that skew toward the understated. You project yourself as sweet, quirky and intelligent. I’ve always assumed you moonlight in an alt-rock band that plays lots of ukulele heavy songs about tail light design.

My wife and I joke about this. She says I should bring in another wife in to spread the burden of everyday life. I say have more than enough wife as it is. If she wants another wife in here so badly, she can go get herself a new wife.

The 278 record is held by Koenigsegg, Jason, not McLaren.

It’s actually amazing how fast Flash went from being a core technology of the web (for better or worse) to “we’re killing it completely”

A niche Corvette SUV will never bring GM enough money to make a difference.  Their cash cow is BOF trucks and SUVs.

Guessing they were calling back to the original Boxster concept car

The weight they have these down to would make an F1 car designer blush.

For about two days.

Have accessories stopped using it though? I haven’t seen any USB radar detectors for instance (haven’t looked in years though), and I also have a camping air mattress pump that uses the legacy port.

By 1957, four in every ten vehicles exported from Japan were Land Cruisers. And soon they were ousting the Land Rover from its markets in the former British empire and beyond. Now this might come as a bit of shock, especially if you’re British, but I’m afraid in the real world of vital off-roading, most of the planet…

This is standard procedure in journalism. You refer to subjects by their last names.

(It probably “feels” a bit odd because her last name is a first name).