Yeah, I’m having trouble finding a negative to this one. Maybe because it’s based on the ever so scary AR15?

There’s no real solid definition of a tank anymore, other than you’ll know a tank when you see one.

Wow, that’s, I mean, it’s really, just, you know, I don’t know like, WTF.

The Land Cruiser has always fallen short when it comes to towing, the Sequoia, like the Tundra it’s based on kicks ass with a trailer behind it. It gives up the LC’s ultimate durability and offroad prowess for more practicality, as a much lower price and is still a solid 250-350k mile SUV. That would make it the “on…

Pre 40 by a couple of years, and the first gen 40s were utter crap. I cracked 4 of them in 1 season.

Honda destroyed some of the prototypes, Greg Minaar never sent his back and it’s atill hanging in his family’s bike shop in South Africa.

As long as it’s not currently charging there is no power flowing through the chord, and if you unplug the chord charging stops, so that’s the electrocution hazard solved. You also don’t need the ends of the cable to sell them for scrap.

“Lose” is an interesting/misleading word choice as it relates to what Ford is up to. It’s only a loss if they don’t recoup it, gotta give a $3b investment a couple years to grow to see if they’re truly losing money.

Hit the nail on the head. Tesla uses all their own IP and yet struggles to build cars well, how many years of teething issues could have been avoided if Audi built their cars for the first few years and showed them the “Audi way”?

I’m still more that 83.2% certain that everybody, except maybe Elon, at Tesla knows it’s a gag/gimmick and that the underlying chassis is going to go under a much more reasonable truck once the interest in Cyberfuck wanes. Your 1 year estimate seems high, but reasonable.

What’s your theory on the holster on the kid’s hip? When the cop reached in and pulled his body out, did he also string the belt through his pants to cover his tracks? Or was the kid driving around with an empty holster and this was just serendipity? 

Are the morons the ones flipping the cars, or buying flipped cars? If people weren’t creating the market for flipped Hotwheels the flippers would die off pretty damn quickly. Nobody is going to keep buying hundreds of Hotwheels at a time every week if there’s no profit to be made.

Is Porsche actually using Fazua’s tech in their ebikes now? The only ebikes popping up are Shimano EPS powered, and are the normal Porsche designs goofy ass frame with middle of the road components for double the price they should be. 

Ah yes, the telelever, for when telescoping forks work too well, cost too little, weigh too little, and just too damn reliable.

This isn’t anything new, car makers have cobranded bikes for decades. Just another goofy doo-dad to try and sell owners and aspirational owners. With the exception of the Ferrari/Colonago collaboration they’ve all been super goofy bikes that would never sell on the normal bike market. People who own a Polestar and…

I’ve often wondered how much closer to the goal of zero emissions we’d be if everything was a plug in hybrid. People hate them because they’re not actually zero emission, but they solve a lot of issues, so they’d be much easier for the populace at large to adopt.

Yep, charging speed matters, but availability matters just as much or more. Cell phones are a perfect example, battery life keeps getting worse, but people don’t care as much as they should because wireless chargers, USB ports, and portable battery packs are ubiquitous.

Where are you located? High $20k range gets you an older high mileage one around here, would definitely scoop one up for mid $20s with reasonable mileage, even if I had to have it shipped.

1st gear: The first comment on yesterday’s article about Ford stopping production of the Lightling was something to the effect of “Hurr durr, that’s why I have a Dodge, I’m not beta testing a Ford EV”, and I gotta say, I’m enjoying the irony here.

Most equipment can run on standard low sulfur fuel, but the reason the Military used JP8 is that it means all their shit can run on the same fuel. The risk of losing a C130 or Blackhawk because somebody put the wrong fuel in it, and the logistical challenges of supplying a base with separate systems and multiple fuels…