“This can’t be fixed with a jump start, as the car will just fail again as soon as the battery is out of juice.” Can’t be fixed, but it might get you down the road to a mechanic’s shop. (Might.)

Essentially, a sail is like a wing. The reason this works is related to why an aircraft moving forward through the air generates lift at (nearly) right angles to the direction of motion.

Maybe more of a cousin than a sibling, but... I think the Jetta GLI should get more sunshine next to the GTI. In the Mk7 version at least, it’s got the same engine, transmission, suspension, brakes (from the Golf R!), mostly the same interior, etc. while being several thousand dollars cheaper at the same trim level,…

But it certainly wasn’t faster-and-furiouser.

Came here for this.

Southwest decided to do a test of its planes’ terrain warning systems...?

Freddie Mercury, Thomas Jane from Boogie Nights, and some other dude.

Looks like a few ciggie burns in there, too.

“the milquetoast L48 with 195 horsepower and the brawnier L82 offering 225 horses” LOL, yeah that’s brawny alright. That’s even worse than the Fox-body Five-Oh making 225 miniature ponies from 302 cubes.

Re #2... I thought it basically was a Germanmobile? Or at least uses a lot of old Mercedes parts?

Cheapest, period? Maybe a nice used 944 or 944 Turbo...? Cheapest new car, meanwhile, might be a Jetta Sport?

They’re Schroedinger’s Astronauts!

“Then low income people have no relief.” Then make it deductible from income tax. Meanwhile, we can still have a road tax, based on weight and miles driven, to raise money for the roads (‘cause you’re right, BEVs should pay too), while the carbon tax captures the cost of pollution currently unrealized in the market,…

What’s the difference if it’s only going to be in your car for one (dis-)charge cycle, until you re-swap?

Should hit the guy on the head.

I’m not sure how smashing his windshield protected her. She shoulda smashed him with the hammer.

Why make it yearly? Raise the gas tax.

I wouldn’t do anything to the auto industry per se. I’d get rid of CAFE, and EV mandates, and all the subsidies for the oil industry, and replace it all with a carbon tax that more accurately reflects the economic costs of greenhouse gas pollution, like at least $1-$2/gallon (on not only gasoline but all carbon…

So in other words... not custard. But clickbaiters gotta clickbait. And I wonder how durable this will be with that rubber constantly flexing... neat idea though.

Yeah, I remember those - why did they go away?