Man I’m glad I don’t have to be able to prove to the internet that I’m still friends with coworkers from 25 years ago, because those fuckers all sucked.

Counterpoint: self-promotion and marketing is pretty much the only thing that Musk is good at

My first thought when watching that video was - This is why people hate New York ‘Elites’

We wonder how people become radicalized, this is the kind of stupidity that poor rural people hear and then feel that their entire gasoline based culture is at threat and they get radicalized. 

“the most eco friendly way to race” is to not race at all. Expending resources in contests of speed is a novelty and will never be any level of eco friendly and can only really be justified with statements about those resources being consumed elsewhere anyway.

I’d be O’Leary of his advice.

Whatever it is, pray you never hit a pothole.

Stick with me here... The malice isn’t in the intent, but in the ignorance of the assumption.

Wow that truck must be huge to fit an entire Toyota Camry in the bed!

A friend of mine had one of these in college as a hand me down. His family lived and worked on a large horse ranch in San diego; that truck looked very useful. Pretty sure they still have it for trips down to Mexico. I rode in it once and thought it was very civil for a truck

I have a friend with Sport Trac. He bought it new and has kept it immaculate. I think it has north of 300,000 kilometers on it by now. He’s always used it as a work truck. He ran a landscaping business for years. He could get a mover or tiller, and a couple of trimmers and gas cans in the bed. The rest of his…

Despite the fact that all of us see these every day in various states of disrepair, this will probably go down as one of the most important vehicles ever made.

This is the correct answer. “Fun Manual and Easy Maintenance” is the starting argument for the C5 Vette.

2018 Ram 1500 handles and rides well before farking it up with lift and big tires. Same with MPG.

Why would they use the word platform to describe a system?

Exactly. It’s not trying to compete. The STi will do that quite capably when it returns*. 

The WRX has its whole separate thing going compared to those. Nope, it won’t touch any of them on a track - but it’ll be GTI (non-R) quick on tarmac, and a total hoot on gravel, and it has that Boxer exhaust note and just the right levels of bro-y obnoxiousness that’s built a loyal following.

Are you sure? I thought that was the plan, or the speculation, but it never came to fruition. Visually, that seems hard to believe. All the hard points, glass, and interior are identical. Internet says they’re both built on the Subaru Global Platform.

Almost like they should make it one car, with multiple options between both body and driving styles.

It’s weird that this only comes in hatch and the WRX only comes in sedan. It seems since they went to the effort to create both configurations, they may as well offer both on both. I guess sales history must tell them otherwise.