“and they will be losing hundreds of dollars of diesel sales for each one of the battery-powered big rigs that stop in to recharge.”

Why should they care? Fuel stations themselves make virtually no money at all off of fuel sales. The margins are tiny, they earn only a few cents per gallon. Fuel is just what gets…

The fact that Mayer made any money at all from her time at Yahoo is a perfect illustration of exactly what is wrong with modern capitalism.

“Of course they read them.”

WAY over a year! Those 2014 models have been sitting around four years! They’ll need tons of parts replaced right from the get-go. The tires will be dry-rotted, all the fluids will be bad, many gaskets and bushings will have perished. These discounts would barely cover parts and labor on all the work these cars will…

I tell anyone who will listen to lop off 10% of their car-buying budget and set it aside for fluids, tires, bushings, wheel bearings, shocks, brakes, etc. If they’ve got a really small budget I insist on even more than 10%

Holy shit, that’s genius!

Yes, because black people always reach for a cop’s gun before they get shot. It’s not like Walter Scott was shot in the back as he was fleeing in terror or anything.

I really wasn’t making a comparison, I was just being outraged that a fucking dog has been shown more compassion and dignity than a whooooooole lot of black people.

Fuck your imaginary mentally ill person hopping on top of your car and screaming about Hitler. Charles Kinsey was shot by a police officer while laying…

Good to know that random stray dogs are shown more respect and dignity by the police than human fucking beings who happen to have dark skin.

“The idea of thousands of inert mechanical parts working in synchronous motion to create power has much more of a “soul” to it than a flow of electrons from a storage bank to an output device.” 

So what!? You think that the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts were a worthwhile endeavor because they “only” cost $1.8 Trillion!? Fuck you! I don’t care if they cost five hundred bucks, any level of expenditure would have absurdly wasteful; not to even mention the loss of human life.

Go step on a fucking landmine and then…

It’s much more tire-dependent than power-dependent. If you have super-skinny tread, a hard compound, and lots of air pressure you can do “burn-outs” with virtually no power at all. 20 horsepower would be more than enough for, say, a 185/75R14 tire with a treadwear rating of 700+ and a good 50+ PSI of tire pressure.

That’s the noble point to make, but I would also suggest that Dan Donovan, like so many of his ilk, is an inarticulate shit-for-brains that’s only capable of parroting the talking points handed down to him by his superiors. Donovan didn’t debate Gisele Mendez that day because he isn’t capable of doing so, even if his…

Horror of horrors, I can’t even take the blame. That’s brutal.

Jesus.

We don’t need to be constantly dour.

+1, a small crossover and/or 2nd gen Model S might make more sense if Tesla was run by GM rather than a Bond villain.

+1, nothing special and I bet a very high viscosity, but you’ll be filling the thing by the bucket-full!

“Would be cool to see one in a Flyin’ Miata.” 

Bill Cardell, the big cheese dog himself, was actually approached by General Motors about being one of the first to receive their LT1 crate engine as part of the development program for the new ND chassis V8 conversion. Bill polled Flyin’ Miata’s existing customers, who…

Well just look at the shape of it: those creases that integrate the back glass into that crazy aerodynamic fairing on the roof. Even if its just plastic and not actually glass, that’s still got to be an incredibly difficult part to produce. If it actually is made of glass then my estimate of “more than $20K” is…