Mazda has made some real engineering masterpieces. Not supercars, but cars that are just sublime for what they are. I just took home a ‘96 M-Edition Miata today and it is a triumph of design and an absolute joy to drive. Mazda has a knack for making cars that appeal to people who care about cars and driving, at…

When I get to go back to work, all they plan is to do temperature screening. Then you had tons of employees pointing out that you can spread the virus without having a fever, but the company won’t do the actual Covid test for employees returning.

Read what I am saying again please. I don’t assume people are compensating when they get a truck. I am saying that I am ok with being ribbed for having a testicle destroyer when I drive a minivan.

Porsche also dabbled in rost-frei, this 67 911S came in at 2270 lbs making it 110 lb lighter than the standard steel car.

I work for a credit union that carries around $1B in auto loans (which is small potatoes compared to the big guys). We are a low risk lender. Based on what I’ve seen in unemployment, member surveys, and knowing there’s about to be a flood of unsold 2020s flooding the market and plummeting values.....

2021’s aren’t shipping, for many manufacturers, they aren’t even being build due to supply chain shut downs. I think what you’re going to find is that dealers aren’t going to be as desperate to unload relatively fresh inventory as would be normally expected. Now, you WILL see pretty deeply discounted new 2019…

I saw one of the 1960 Thunderbirds at a T-bird owners’ club meeting in NE Pennsylvania back around 1985 or so.

The very stable genius is a nasty sort, maybe even a pedo.

“This will all probably get worse before it gets better.”

Not trying to be Hot Take Guy here, but I can’t help but think of the old adage of pride comes before the fall with Tesla...or specifically Musk. No, they’re not going to suddenly fail or disappear but I think Elon has already turned off a lot of potential buyers with his asshole routine, which is happening with far…

Chrysler does that by having shitty seats that are very thin, and giving up all of the cargo space that would otherwise be available under them. It’s a lot like Honda being so proud of its trucklet having an in-bed cargo box... except that they did it by raising the bed floor so the bed capacity is much smaller and…

With the states “opening up” we are going to need more refrigerated trailers very soon.

The independent research firms all concur that both Waymo and GM Cruise are years ahead of The Big Tee.  Waymo is using a lot of LIDAR of course.

None of this makes any sense.

I get that back in 2008 they calculated that it would be cheaper to bail out car companies rather than pay unemployment. But companies will use this as a reason to hire less people back, or just like in 2008, lower salaries for new employees, hence propping up their stock price and getting executive bonuses. All on…

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I am so sick of socialized risk. I am in a tax bracket that gets soaked to pay for those above and below me. I can handle helping the less fortunate, but subsidizing the hyper wealthy makes me want to smash things.

>>Perhaps, just perhaps, if Aston stepped back a bit and made something that wasn’t just chasing what everyone else is doing?<<

I’m not a fan of Astons at all, but an Aston-Martin V-12 pick-up is something I’d definitely oggle. Too bad this trend didn’t happen when A-M had a V-10 Excursion platform to work with.

Hey. I’ve got this.