I’m pretty sure we paid around 2k for a high mileage one of these in 1989 because we were poor and couldn’t afford a then-the-latest-thing minivan.

I’m excited for the show to be back but I'm dreading seeing it end

Dog legs on the quarter panels for sure will not last

We had 2 Tauri,  both went over 100k without trans issues.  Other stuff failed, though 

IIRC Hyundai/Kia said their fleet sales are essentially zero now, when in 2019 fleet was about 20-25% of sales for them. It's supply plus hot products 

Perfect segment for a Chinese brand, or even possibly a Vietnamese one

All night long 

So now I wonder how much variation automated identification can sort out. Take the famous examples of vandalized stop signs...how many variants of STOP need to be manually cataloged? And full moons, and puddles, etc.

That’s a great observation. At first I wondered if they threw in the towel on FSD but outsourcing makes way more sense.

If you fly into Seattle and your terminal is one of the outbuildings, it’ll take you 15 minutes just to get to baggage claim.

Even if that’s true, if Biden decreed it today there would be an army on both the left and right railing about freedom 

Self driving for ANY automaker is a long way away,  if it's ultimately even possible beyond very limited use, possibly geofenced.  It's all moot at this point 

Instead of the Biden "I did that" stickers on gas pumps, how about stickers with a cowboy and a Saudi in a headress, arm in arm, that say "We did that"? 

Right. That would have gone over oh so well 

And Elon has sold FSD hard as “Coming soon...you can make money using your Tesla as a robotaxi as soon as the government approves”. Don’t think any other automaker has done anything remotely similar .

I seem to remember the T-bird concept being well received,  but the production version got bland-ified. Not the first time that happened,  and wasn't the last 

Fuck Ted Cruz x infinity 

Oh dear, where is Fancy Kristen when you need her?

Rich is fine, but obscene disproportionate wealth without any social conscience,  not so much 

Fabian said much of that on Talking Saul as well