Ditto with seeing a fairly good number of Rivians out on the road locally in the Tampa Bay area. Not tons, mind you, but enough to no longer be shocked to see one. I have also seen a couple of Lucids, and there is still a Fisker running around in the wild here as well.

So, pray tell, where the hell would used cars come from should the market for new cars dry up?

Viagra, on Mark Martin’s car.

You seem to forget that most of the “foreign” stuff in China is actually produced there, and in factories partially owned - if not totally owned and operated - by Chinese companies backed by the Chinese government. They protect their market by basically owning and operating it via government agency, not private…

We could theoretically do the same thing, or the EU do something similar, but we lack the one thing that makes it possible for China to make this happen. The heads of government are making policy and enforcing it on the populace, and they don’t worry about reelection or such when making those decisions. They don’t…

I am all for it, but they made it too big. Make it the size of a MGB, decent range, and sharp handling and watch how fast they sell. 

Want to know how this ends?

Dick Teague at AMC. Nobody ever did more with less than this guy. He repackaged old crap in new wrappers and made it work. Without him, AMC would have been long gone well before it went away.

The simple fact is that we know China has no qualms about stealing IP and trade secrets to further their business needs, so one has to question why anyone would do business with them in the first place. There is no honor among thieves, when you lie down with dogs you get fleas, and all the other old adages apply.…

Ask your invisible Sky Friend directly. If he speaks clearly in your native language that eating a hotdog instead of fasting to commemorate the execution of someone who claimed to be the son of said invisible sky friend is a no-no, then definitely abstain.

The problem is all semantics, and in cases like this, yes, it matters.

Neutral: Speaking of

The absolute genius of “towing at owner’s expense” is that damned near every towing company would love to be contracted to enforce just such a rule. The $100 ticket is nothing, but the towing and impound fees, along with the hassle of having to retrieve their vehicle from some shady tow impound lot (cash only, open…

Accounting bullshit is just that: bullshit.

I just wish people would stop thinking that there will be one - and only one - source of fuel and accept that some combination of several sources will become the standard. Not one, many.

Recipes are not non-fiction essays on how the author grew up, or whether their overly picky spawn loves it when they hate everything else, or how their Aunt Becky made this for their thirteenth birthday and made their otherwise worthless life complete.

3rd Gear: BMW’s Big Into Hydrogen

I think that Lucid would be totally “on-brand” if sold as an Apple product. Add in Apple software, keep it within a cocoon within an Apple universe for updates, add-ons, and subscriptions, and it fits well. Good unobtrusive design, great ergonomics, high price/high value, and easily scaled up or down in size. It’s the…

Tavares is no dummy. He has a proven track record of taking a crap company and suddenly making profits, if you remember what he did with Vauxhall/Opel when he took it from GM. So the news that the crap companies that formed Stellantis are raking in money does not surprise me at all.

The thing about speech is that it should be totally free. You can say anything you want.