I can see it being Geely. That opens a port for Chinese automakers by using Apple as the halo. 

This is not an excuse, but there are a lot of Trump supporters who aren’t a) news junkies and b) supported him for one reason, and it rhymes with “cracks butts.”

The Legion of Mediocrity.

Dodge is only mostly dead. Which means it’s partially alive!

I’ve found people are much happier with candy corn when you toss it into the trash.

Nothing is worse than someone who wants you to pay a premium for their project and its problems.

McConnell has consistently said, even in his own autobiography, that he believes politics runs on money and power alone. He sees his job as doing what his donors ask of him. In return, he accrues more money and power.

Barbara and Diana are friends for all of one, whole day before Barbara wishes to be just like her. 

Ford: Quality is Job, uh...

5th Gear: The all new Volkswagen Beetle EV.

There is a lot of pop-psych bullshit about color usage in marketing. Blue is equated to stability and reliability, but also cleanliness and purity.

Follow-on article: I Bought a Saturn from a Defunct Wind Tunnel and I Only Have 72 Hours to Get it Ready for Moab.

Your experience is in the same Venn circle as others I’ve seen. It’s a solid okay car. Throttle House actually liked its handling. Doug DeMuro of course loved the door handles.

How about Galax-E 500? 

Your point about the fuel economy is especially prescient. Toyota just put a hybrid system in the Sierra. You can get most of its cars with a hybrid. The Venza only comes as a hybrid.

I realize I’m in the minority but I love the Cybertruck’s design. I like retrofuturism (Admittedly, I grew up in that era). I can easily imagine a bulky, angular truck like this covered in mud. I know guys from back in my hometown who’d happily go mudding in a big, nasty-looking truck like this, particularly because…

I bought it because one thing I’ve been conditioned by nearly all the movies is the Empire is riddled with hubris and incompetence. The Mandalorian has also done a great job indicating how utterly disposable cannon fodder Stormtroopers are to Imperial officers.

The Harry Potter movies were my Ewoks moment.

Great point. There’s a big difference between, “I can drive stick” and “I do drive stick.”

5th gear: considering that Welsh autoplant - which was never gonna happen - got offshored, we can now see what Brexit was really all about. It was so some Tories could strip Great Britain for parts. David Cameron held that vote because he thought there were enough Tories who actually gave a shit about the UK to keep…