I learned in the backyard on a Kawasaki 440 LTD and went to a weekend riding class to get a restricted permit where I had a 250 Nighthawk for the course. It was sportier, but small enough I didn’t really consider it a “sport bike”. Graduated from the Kawasaki to an 83 Honda Magna V45, which later morphed into a 96…

Vipers were the same, at least gen 3/4 (and maybe 2, I can’t remember).  Part of that was because they were reusing parts, so I believe it’s a Jeep steering column and they just disabled the crank position on the key.  So the key is still the “main power” and the start button is just the starter.  It was actually…

Yeah, I’m not saying it’s actually doing that yet, more just that I see the Hyperloop as one of the only ways to have truly autonomous high speed long range travel.  It’s the best case scenario for self driving vehicles (a fixed environment to operate it).  However, I also agree that it’s kind of pointless because…

The Hyperloop does offer one real benefit that I think a lot of people don’t seem to think about at first. I believe it’s likely the only real way you’re going to see reliable 100% autonomous vehicles traveling long distances at speed. The problem with any autonomous system that operates on existing roads is that you…

I mean, the “road tax” isn’t exactly wrong. If everyone went electric like some people want then how are we going to pay for road maintenance? You could be taxed by the mile, but that’s going to be harder to track for people that might have older vehicles without just straight up slapping GPS trackers on every car,…

Fair, but I’m guessing that either the airlines own that equipment or other ground support specialists, and I’m going to make a rough guess that those are probably several hundred thousand if not close to million dollar machines.  Not exactly the kind of thing a high end detail shop is going to want to buy for the…

The Hertz story mentions increased repair costs. Do they elaborate any more on what exactly that means? Like, did EVs cost more in general for upkeep (I thought they were supposed to be cheaper to maintain?), did they break more often to require service, or did they just cost more to fix when they were broken?

but it takes the cell phone right out of the hands of the millions of distracted fuckers driving

Driving fast in and of itself doesn’t really do that much for me. Getting to speed is what is fun. I would rather have a car that accelerates stupid fast and has a 100 mph limiter than a 200 mph car that takes a minute to get to 60.

I think one of the bigger struggles at the moment is truly pinning down EV range as the advertised values come with so many asterisks that you could make a constellation. Driving style makes up a lot of that for any vehicle, but ICE vehicles tend to only waver a couple of mpg between seasons and stay pretty consistent…

I’m legitimately curious how many laps in a row the Vette can run that hard as I know they’ve had heat soak issues in the past that I would hope they have figured out by now (granted it’s still a force induction car if I remember correctly). Without a doubt it’s still probably the most performance for the money you…

It just sort of reminds me of a Buick... Big oversize wheels, squatty kinda-sorta wagon, high belt line, etc.

Honestly, the Avanti kind of already looks like an early EV to me. Just had a weird boxy style that makes me think of a first gen “not quite sure what we’re doing yet, just trying to make it work” feel.

Yeah, I looked it up after to see if I was just remembering things wrong and saw that the “list price” is something like $300K-infinity.  General “base” cost is something like $300-500k and the rest is mostly just personalization, so I could see how many are 1 million and up.

A million for this?  That seems...excessive.  I didn’t think Singers were even that expensive.

“It’s about minimizing complexity and components, and getting maximum functionality,”

Sorry, guess I shouldn’t come to a car news site expecting to read news about cars, my bad.

I had this problem with a 2000 XKR I bought for my commuter.  It was very pretty to look at and had all the fancy stuff I never had coming from my 71 Vette and 67 Dart (power and automatic everything), but it just bored me to drive every day for a commute.  It was quiet and automatic, so it just wasn’t very engaging. …

Worth mentioning, but if you do see a nail or something in your tire, don’t pull it out right away. I was once driving home from a road trip with my wife and just happened to look down at one of my tires while we were loading up one morning at a hotel and saw a nail. Checked it with a gauge and I was a bit low, but…

Our parents lusted after muscle and pony cars because that is what cool, successful people drove back then.