Audi is not sweating this one either. 

Well if the wiring harness is for turn signals, BMW will be fine.

Adjusting to higher production costs due to inflation is not price gouging.

Did I miss something, or wasn’t Ford’s first EV the Focus Electric?

Any explanation how oil level affects emissions? This sounds incredible to me. 

“Pickups are good in the snow.”

Timothy McVeigh was universally regarded as a terrorist too. So are the various white militia groups that have been arrested.

Exactly. I barely register new CUVs as anything beyond ‘obstacle’. If I’m really paying attention I might be able to remember the colour five minutes later. Zero chance I’d notice a mis-badged one even if someone pointed right at the badge. 

Any car can have soul. Any car.

The vast majority of people who salivate over muscle cars of the 60s and 70s have obviously never driven one. Compared to modern cars, they’re pretty damn rough to say the least.

All convertibles are good.

Old cars suck! They’re dangerous and bad for the environment. They’re also always worse driving than I remembered. These days, whenever I get into an older car they feel so damn loud and slow. They should be relegated to the garage and left off the streets.

Why not make the tailgate/trunk lid with transparent ports so the tail lights would shine *through* it when it is closed?

Good point.

Considering the difference in response between the US and most other nations when said piracy occurs, there may be a reason for the 200 year gap in occurrence.

In a world with pandemics, global warming, crazy weather, shootings, etc, why are we going after the people trying to celebrate life? I mean, yeah, let’s do it safely, but it’s people excited about the child they’re bringing into this world. Do we really want to crap on everything and everyone we don’t agree with…

It’s like when people buy a place under the flight pattern of the local airport and then bitch about the jet noise.

While I generally find the “all gentrification is evil” narrative pretty limited, to me this is just called: Do Your Research. Figure out what happens in a neighborhood, decide whether or not you’d be happy to live there, and then sign your lease accordingly. Don’t show up and mess with the lives of the people who…

The EU’s share for nuclear would likely be higher if Germany hadn’t shutdown 1/2 of their plants, but nuclear has a PR problem.  Just about anyone can rattle off the big nuke accidents, but most are oblivious to the amount of crap that’s released with coal.

I’m a scientist and an environmentalist, and the fact that we’re not building modern reactors all over the place is absolutely mind-boggling. The alternatives suck (dams!) or require a lot of infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet (wind and solar+batteries).