Totally accurate. Same story in Laos, if memory serves. I was in Cambodia and Laos two years ago and plainly noticed that older Toyotas and Lexuses were ubiquitous. At one point I noticed one of them still had not only an American dealer badge on the back, but one from a dealership in my area!

Google will be in direct competition with Uber & Lyft as soon as it launches its Waymo ride-hail service commercially. Maybe both of them are assuming Google will cut them off from using Maps?

Also of note is that the medallion business has turned into an albatross for many drivers in NYC due precisely to Uber/Lyft, leading to many suicides and bankruptcies. Medallions used to be lucrative money ventures, now they’re money pits.

Still, there’s a fundamental irony to the I’m Independent Coalition, Uber, and Lyft compensating drivers to protest AB5 in ways they don’t when they drive for the ridehail companies. For example, driver regularly sit idly during the work day waiting for their next fare, time for which they are not paid, yet the I’m…

BMW is doing it wrong. (Okay, BMW’s been doing it wrong since around 2003, but in a different way.)

Every single element of this vehicle makes me want to claw out my insides, but it’s still better looking than any X6, most Bangle-era Bimmers, and the horror show on wheels that is the X7.

The problem with this “study” is essentially the same as the one conducted a year or two ago by Stanford and MIT that drew its sample of ride-hail drivers entirely from The Rideshare Guy blog: yes, you might get a numerically valid number of answers, but that isn’t the same thing as a statistically valid answer, given…

I can’t read the Globe article because it’s behind a paywall, but I do know a) it doesn’t count as “price gouging” unless a state of emergency has been declared by a state’s governor (which I say as a lawyer btw); and b) Uber & Lyft have unintentionally charged surge fares during actual emergencies solely because they…

This is - ugh - fake news. Per Michael Avenatti’s Twitter:

Wait a decade and you’ll be able to find the AMG for 75% less than its original MSRP. (As has been true for basically all AMGs made, well, ever.) And considering one can handily find a mid-2000s Aston Martin for under $50K, I wouldn’t bet on the Vanquish, either.

The legendary 2JZ, the uniquely driver-focused interior, the clean lines paired with a massive wing - it’s the pinnacle of “awesome 1990's Japanese sports car”.

It’s rare and special to a whole generation of people.

You’re not a fucking millennial. You’re gen Y goddammit. Born in 1985. I am NOT a fucking millennial and will stab anyone who calls me such.

Nothing good made in the mid-2000s? Allow me to introduce you to the E46 3-series. (And while it’s slightly pricier and older, an E39 M5 could be had for well under six figures new.)

Probably dating myself slightly, but my dad bought one of these when I was in college - to replace the 300ZX (twin turbo, obviously) he’d bought when I was in high school. This may come as a surprise, but neither of us particularly liked the Supra, and we both thought the 300ZX was a better car in nearly every way,…

“This is for a perfect condition stock car with no miles, this is a one out of 1000 car.”

...except Fi only charges for the data you actually *use*, so if you do all of your surfing over wifi—and note that Fi phones auto-connect to tens of thousands of wifi networks—your bill would be $20/month for your main line and $15 for every other.

Possibly because a) it subleases bandwidth from Verizon, which throttles data speeds of third-party companies using its network at 3G levels; b) even at reduced speeds, you can’t tether a laptop to its data connection; and c) it lacks even basic functionality like caller ID?

Yeezys have been in trouble for quite a while now - but, then, so has Adidas in general. Introducing a colorway that resembles green-neon-crusted shit didn’t help, but even their less hideous drops haven’t fared well (e.g. the all-white 350s that debuted last month - white-fabric sneakers are just perfect for fall &…

Only twelve of these cars were made, like, ever.