I would GLADLY pay $700 more if buying a car didn’t involve a dealership. It’s such a miserable experience from buying the car to getting it serviced, direct sales HAS to be better.

LOL okay dude.

I don’t know, when I get really old and disabled I would want an autonomous vehicle that drives my ass wherever I want to go without depending on someone to come pick me up and haul me around.

At 81, really not a bad way to go I say. Makes for a good story. “How your dad die mate?” Answer, “on his birthday, fighting a bull to save his Ford.”

You’re picking up a new skill that I used to practice. Slow cars and traffic make you think differently about braking. I still think you might get the Prius to rotate if you keep trying. It’s not gonna be as predictable as the Tacoma when it steps out, so brace for the G’s. Good luck and keep laughing at the battery…

Tail lights are just slapped on to make the car “street legal” - it’s an early test mule after all.

A pickup truck is unique from a SUV. My vehicle has very low sidewall tires and an aggressive suspension and I’ve yet to pop a tire due to surface changes you described. That Prius has some pretty skinny tires to improve efficiency so that may be a contributing factor. I suspect you live in a place with rougher roads…

Actually, I’d expect that an electric or hybrid semi might have dynamic braking like trains do. They actually have a big fan and heat sink system that uses the locomotive’s electric motors to slow down the train during normal operations.

I tried this once in an indoor soccer game with a keeper who got a little casual with his dropkick tosses. I knocked the ball away, and he drop kicked straight through my tibia and fibula.

Poverty shaming

What do they call a guy who led an entire race then tucked his car into the wall?

I honestly take a certain amount of comfort in the fact that there are people who keep concours-level copies of my classic car in their garages. I daily drive mine, and I’d feel guilty as hell if no one were keeping a nice one or two pristine for future generations.

Not surprising that a girl with shitty enough judgement to date someone who would speed up to race motorcycles also has shitty enough judgement to yank the parking brake I guess.

“full minute of trucks silently pulling tree stumps out of the ground”. That’s now how truck advertising works though. You need to have a tug-of-war between the electric and a popular turbo-diesel where the electric drags the diesel around the parking lot then rips it in half.

I’m a vet. as is my wife, dad, 2 brothers and sister. My son just joined the coast guard. I don’t get the ‘vet obsession either.

Finally got around to cleaning up those carbs.

Yeah, yeah, I know.

While I would love that, I think regulations have changed so much that Mazda would be forced to create a new chassis, and likely use much newer materials to keep the weight where it was (aluminum/CFRP).

Props on the foibles.

The one thing I hate about the world of automotive engineering: Excel and making a macro to make pretty charts because upper management LOVE them some pretty charts.

Honestly do you ever have any fun? I don’t understand why people hate drifting around a corner so much.. its fun as hell.