Buy a car that was made from steel which was forged in Satan’s bum breath, electrics that are made from snakes, and which was tested in hell’s billion acres.

“Get a Miata, but  S P I C Y.”

In Japanese, “Mi chi gan” means “sad box of despair”.

Honda Element was literally made to be a dog-friendly vehicle and fits this almost perfectly. The only thing it doesn’t do is hold a 4x8' sheet, but almost nothing will hold that except for an old Volvo wagon or a minivan. Element if that requirement has some wiggle room, minivan if it doesn’t.

Wait - all of these are perfectly reasonable responses to the question asked.  Are you guys OK?

It is definitely van time. Nothing else will give you that much interior space which can easily be switched from seating to cargo capacity while also providing a low step in height for the large dogs. They’ll have a harder time climbing in and out of vehicles as they get older, so plan ahead for that with a vehicle…

For one, the transition to electric power is expensive and they need to sell cars. And it’s great that they’ll be building something relatively affordable. And small-ish. Both those things need to be applauded. But, they’ve almost always had an affordable car in their lineup. Most recently the S40 which was their…

“Hey...Benicio...how do you like that paint?

Jacques Tati’s “Trafic” is a great parody of the culture in the 60s-70s, as most of his movies are. Definitely worth a watch.

I recall the 1979 TV movie, “Death Car On The Freeway,” with Shelley Hack as a TV reporter investigating a serial killer targeting female drivers on the LA freeways. This guy, called the Freeway Fiddler because he plays a cassette of psychotic fiddle music during his rampage, drives a souped-up black Dodge panel van…

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it, but I remember loving all the EV restomods in In Time. Particularly the Jag that Justin Timberlake drives.

My favorite kinds of “car movies” aren’t necessarily about cars, but instead happen to feature great car casting.

Stone (1974). Okay not a car movie but an Australian movie about bikies, an undercover cop, political conspiracy and many Kawasaki z1's.

Toyota Previa / Tarago from 1992-1999. A really clean and simple design that is unapologetic about what it does.

Until the End of the World, made in 1991 set in 2000 and the director used a mix of background cars that includes a lot of concept cars from the time not to mention the old Rover that the main character drives. It’s an interesting look at what we in 1990 thought the not so distant future would look like.

This Peugeot 406 coupe is from 1999 and they still look amazing today

One factor that might help is that NZ citizens seem to be willing to help the common good. They had a mass shooting and almost immediately everyone agreed that there were too many guns and did something about it. Here in the “I’m a buckaroo and f’ you too” USA, this probably would not work.

Hey, show grandpa some respect or no more dollar when you come to visit. 

50 Ways to Leave a Takeover

recall toyota was an early investor in TEsla, they had 20% part of the deal was the NUMI plant in CA, but you think they are starting from scratch? how much did they boost tesla’s interests? M-B had another 20%, there is more to it than meets the recent news cycles. Toyota is behind no one, maybe in public perception…