Two problems: First, there are competing services—Uber, Lyft, and taxis, where they still exist. Uber and Lyft, though, provide the same service, with negligible differences in quality. In other words, the service they provide is, essentially, a commodity. Consequently, the only difference between the services is…

Key words “Turbo TransAm.” They were hoping you’d steal it or wreck it, not bring it back to them.

I hope he has good security at the Gigafactory. The robots are going to need big batteries if they’re going to walk down the street without us, you know, unplugging them.

What’s the appeal of these keyboards? Is it just the retro-ness of it?

Still a Buick. It’s impossible to make this hot.

For $205,000, you can get an extremely well optioned 911 GT3. My only question then is why would you pick the NSX?

“So far the only cars to really take on Tesla’s grip on the spirit of electric cars in the world have been the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Bolt. They’re fine cars, but they’re plastic hatchbacks. They’re not Tesla rivals in any meaningful sense.”

“Matt,” the German army re-enactor, isn’t wearing a German army uniform. He can’t claim that the “Wehrmacht was separate.” He’s wearing an SS uniform—it’s right there on his collar. They’re the ones who actually committed the atrocities, and by the end of the war, they had around 800,000 men under arms, operating…

Why worry about the different trim levels? No one is going to buy this.

It varies year by year. Pretty sure GM outsold Ford in 2015. And it was only 20,000 trucks in 2016. Yes, the F-150 is a popular truck, but they get more mileage out of their sales claims than they really deserve.

The F-150's sales leadership isn’t that impressive since, you know, GM splits its sales between GMC and Chevy.

Why are people so excited by a new Ranger? The Chevy Colorado and GMC Yukon exist and, by all accounts, they’re great trucks. Why all the boners for Ford?

Since it’s debut in the early ‘90s, my mom always wanted a Boxster. Loved the things. Well, she retired a couple years ago, and I told her she should buy one since she deserves to be happy. It took some pushing, but she eventually pulled the trigger. She’s barely driven since. A large part of that is that my dad…

I feel like you missed the moral of that particular fable. The point of the story of mice and the cat is that impossible solutions aren’t useful, i.e. work within the realm of the possible.

Good story. The thing I wonder about is whether bigger guns are the real answer. Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t see how active protection systems really stop kinetic energy penetrators. But, of course, you have to have a round that will go through composite armor. Hence, bigger guns.

There is sort of a problem in correcting “racial” determinations, though, isn’t there? I think most people recognize that a Latinx background doesn’t really correspond to whiteness/blackness. There are black people with Hispanic last names and likely genetic background. Many people with Hispanic last names also…

Yeah, man, what do I know? I drove a 1996 Jeep Wrangler for 12 years, then got a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee, then 2008 VW GTI. The GTI didn’t have it. The first time I saw this was in a 2010 VW Touareg that my in-laws owned. My wife and I bought a CX-5 last year, and it has a back up camera, but I don’t think it has…

Never claimed to be a pro, but I wouldn’t exactly call that “hidden.” It’s a picture of black plastic taken at night. Where would you put them on the Lamborghini in the photo in the original post?

Um, the X-Type ended production sometime in 2008 or 2009. Did it even have a back up sensor? Seems unlikely.

Setting purity aside, this thing is pretty ugly.