This implies you had snow tires much of the time in the snow, which makes a HUGE difference. Plus the Speed3 also had a limited slip, which helps in the snow by ensuring both front tires are pulling instead of just one, so it would naturally be better than a non-speed 3 at putting power down.

This.  I always assumed they rounded up because Vanilla Ice.

this made my morning.

I’m tempted to say Nice Price because this is almost exactly the car I learned to drive stick-shift on, except that one (my Aunt’s) was an LX trim.

What lead over Toyota? Toyota has been doing electric in the form gas-electric hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell-electric cars longer than most. They simply haven’t done a full BEV, probably because they are good at making profits and BEVs aren’t all that profitable yet. I suspect when they are ready to enter the BEV mark…

Clearly this isn’t enough of a challenge.  Maybe next year he starts with just the removable hard-top from an old Wrangler and has to build everything else.

The first year of the Neon SRT-4 also had an open-diff, which they promptly upgraded the following year to a limited-slip. Seems silly stupid they repeated that with the Caliber.

Neutral; If they can get production going in a timely manner, this will be a much needed cash-cow for Tesla. Since Model 3 sales are slowing as they catch up on pre-orders this is just in time to tap into the hottest sales trend around. I hope they can pull it off without any too much drama.

Crack Pipe

Which unfortunately gets really tough when you are a public company.  The public is stupid, and wants profits now!

Don’t buy a Versa Note if you want a usable trunk.

Is her use of the handle accompanied by a sharp intake of breath?  That is also annoying.

You could interpret that as: Slashing American Jobs is bad.  Slashing German jobs is not bad.

Star for Windows ME reference.

It’s not the cone that has it under control. It’s the three workers observing the one who puts out the cone that have it under control.

Nice, I had a ‘99 in this color scheme, loved it.

Hmm, I hope these fair better than the last time Mazda had a run of 500 special edition orange cars in the US. The accident-prone 2003 Mazdaspeed Protege’s. I only had a minor accident in mine (three weeks after driving it off the lot), but many were wrecked. That color (Spicy Orange) was a bitch for the body shop to…

Indy and Henry didn’t die...

Small and safe nuclear reactors that can be co-located with these charging stations to provide all that power in an emissions-free way is the answer.  I’m sure Elon is already drawing it on a napkin.

SUV’s are the minivan replacement, so it makes sense they are mom-mobiles. Mom’s are the target market. That is why Honda sold 140,000 more CR-V’s than the rugged Jeep Cherokee (almost 60% more).