A C63 this such a fundamentally illogical car to own, too. Nobody in their right mind has any more need for more HP than the C43. You go bigger because its dumb on purpose. 

Indeed, car and driver couldn’t stop talking about how they could feel the extra weight.

My dad has an E53 with the I6 hybrid and goddam, that powertrain would move the hell out of this thing. It technically would make less power than the 4-banger hybrid, but I bet they could screw more power out of that motor or add a bit more battery to make it feel like a true AMG.

Some engineer at a plastics company: huh, we use less material and time doing a short cone instead of a cylinder or even a semicircle.

Pretty much opposite the point of the article, but this compelled me to go check out the Jeep website and holy crap, you can get quite a quite nicely appointed 3-row GC for not much more than 40 grand. I don’t shop for crossovers but my kneejerk reaction is that is... pretty good?

It’s also kinda “let them eat cake” to tell the people already spending money they don’t have on a car they can’t afford to just buy insurance on that very dumb and bad fiscal decision. People aren’t going underwater on loans for vehicles they *need*, it’s for a loaded Ram 1500. 

I’m sitting here seeing all the obvious jokes while picturing the current Escalade’s front clip on the current “Beast”...

2nd: This has to fuck with their whole dumbass plan to replace CarPlay and AndroidAuto with their own system, right? Like the whole point of that exercise is to have more of that sweet, delicious, data to sell.

Weird parenting thing I heard that’s adjacent to this: Don’t punish your kids for lying, just remember it. Remind them of it when they ask you to trust them on something. It’s learning the social contract the hard way. 

Indeed, the short-lived student loan forgiveness plan was a pretty good model for this type of thing: It’s of some consequence, but isn’t a paradigm shift, as it more so performatively excites your base while enraging the opposition.

See I normally don’t mind something a bit anonymous. Weirdly one of my favorite designs is the F-150's from the late 00's.

For me it’s the clearest example of why its hard to trust. You could have a million different things on your mind and still register “train” without even trying. Computing and cognition are drastically different things, and its really hard to buy into the former substituting for the latter.

This is it for me exactly. The combo of a slanted beltline and how high the truck sits give it the weirdest proportions. The thing is just trying to be too tall in general. 

It still does kinda feel like whiff with the Bronco. I bet money is no object to a person who wants a top end version with the bigger motor and the manual. They could probably charge whatever they wanted.

This rules. However...

IMO it depends on if the system actually does just view a RR crossing as another intersection with cars going past, or if the interface just doesn’t have train assets to show you that it can tell the difference. RR crossing are something that cars encounter enough in the world that not being able to ID it as its own…

My kneejerk reaction is that most people springing for a V6 Lotus are there for the driving experience, while a greater percentage of Broncos are bought for the sake of appearances. Both co’s know their markets. 

Screw it, John Deere!

At least this is already on the way in the form of the Rampage. Problem with that is its manufactured in Brazil, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Trump admin to comes up with some worse version of the chicken tax to screw this thing for not being built on US soil.

1st: Look I fucking hate everybody involved in this story, but I swear to christ, I think I’ve read this headline on this site alone like 15 times since November.