I’d settle for taxing investment profits at regular income tax rates.

These guys are money pimps. They don’t know, or care to know, how the auto industry works. They just want to generate churn in auto stock values. They don’t even care if it’s up or down, because they can make money either way.

I would say yes. Absolutely.

Those midgates aren’t all that.

I differ with you on the battery range issue.

I’m one of those bad passengers. So I don’t do that anymore.

Black and tans work when you’re pouring variations with Guinness. When you’re spec’ing your car interior? Not so much.

If you really want to do this, start at $5K.

I don’t think it’s an add-on expense. It looks like it’s just one more provider for the Max platform, at no additional cost. Since both Motor Trend TV and Max are owned by Warner Brothers Discovery, it looks like the typical merger/consolidation of two divisions within the WBD Borg.

Interesting update: I got a Hot Rod Magazine email today linking to several old articles and advertising the shows streaming on Max. I find that interesting because I haven’t received one of those email newsletters in like 3 0r 4 months.

This explains the new commercials directing viewers to join Max and see all the MTTV content for the low price of $10 a month.

Looks pretty damned brown to me. A little brighter underhood where it isn’t so sun-faded — uh, patina’d. But I’d suggest that paint may be sorta reddish ... but definitely reddish brown.

So I just missed it by that much ...

So, you finally found the journalist’s brown manual diesel wagon of industry dreams. For short money. Nice Price on principle.

Not at all. I fear that I might be getting prudish in my old age. That scares me too.

Are you going to share your findings or is this more of a private kink.

I aim to please ...

I understand, as writer from Ol’ Blighty, you may not be familiar with the term fur baby. Where grown people wheel their pets around in baby strollers and dress them in dorky outfits that would make the mean pets pick on them.

You must not be in the prized California sucker demographic for Google search results.

Would you prefer Oppressive rent-seeking bloodsucker website: