Has any nation offered up as many place names repurposed as auto appellations as has Spain? Think about it, in addition to the Granada, we’ve had the Versailles, Seville, Cordoba, Málaga, and Cádiz. That’s a lot of cities turned into cars.

I realize it’s not technically out yet (but will be within three months), plus it generates a hair under 500 hp, but how on earth could you leave out the C8 Vette? (which, of course, handily outperforms every car listed here, with the possible exception of the 3x-as-pricey NSX)

In 10 years the NSX will be more valuable than either the mustang or X4 and is probably more fun to drive.

I seriously doubt the One-77 will sell for an amount even remotely within range of mere plebeians - it went for $1.87 million new, after all - but the ‘97 F355 Berlinetta being sold without reserve as well is another story. It’s also likely to appreciate: despite newer models being plainly superior from a…

Slightly OT, but why exactly do you think Lyft drivers should be paid for downtime? While I realize NYC and the state of California are trying (and mostly failing, but that’s a much longer story) to arrange it otherwise, rideshare driving is a for-hire occupation, and believe it or not, the closest analogy to it…

Also, since the car is not yours, you can’t do the IRS mileage deduction, so you’re going to be mega fucked when you go to file your taxes.

Unless things have changed places like Hertz, enterpize, and Avis didn’t rent to under 25. They would let them act as secondary drivers, but there was a surcharge.

Why does it always take at least 30 minutes to complete the paperwork to rent a car? Perhaps this is how Lyft hopes to disrupt the process.

Lyft currently [sic] the Volkswagen Atlas and Passat in San Fransisco [sic] and Oakland.

This space has already been “disrupted” by Silvercar

I’m not entirely sure why this counts as news, given that hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against Lyft & Uber over the past five years claiming their drivers are misclassified - and the number of times the plaintiffs have prevailed is zero. It also misstates several legalities:

I remember ours as being very comfortable, practical and it even had a feature I’ve seen on no modern car since, a cubby between the two front seats for a purse.

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…