A friend’s father once told me he had a C2-generation Corvette “with an experimental Can Am motor” that turned a lap at Indy “fast enough for pole” that year. It’s total bullshit, and definitely not possible, because Indy roadsters were pretty damn fast by the mid-1960s, and Corvettes, uh, weren’t.

The request is making me have an aneurysm. Whatever car you buy is going to make you look like a loser parent lugging your kids around because that’s what you’ll be doing with it. You’re a parent now! Don’t make your life worse for the sake of pretending you aren’t!

I think the problem is that as much of a liability as Musk is, the BoD is probably too scared of what would happen if he left and took his army of chuds with him. His lunacy makes up one of the legs on a very rickety stool. 

Very well said. This book/movie tells a compelling story, but frames it in way people want to hear rather than what they should hear: Just f*cking off to the woods is not a good solution to your problems, regardless of how valid and unfortunate they are. McCandless is not a martyr, he’s a cautionary tale.

My kingdom for an alternate timeline where the FnF movies never happened, and there were more unmolested examples of these out there.

“Happiness is only real when shared”.

The classic 60's American door handle that’s basically just a chrome blade with an oval button under the rear end. These rule incredibly hard. 

I would argue it’s more of a question if the execs let them make enough in the first place. Consumers want cheap cars, stockholders want high margins. The latter usually gets their way, and production resources get allocated accordingly.

Woof, these are entirely different magnitudes of dumb. You could talk me into NASCAR themed crocs being sort of ironically funny, but anyone spending their money on that Ferrari stuff is an exponentially bigger tool.

It begs the question though how much cost people would eat to just not interact with the sales/finance department, other than maybe signing a few things when they pick up the car. At the very least, I’d love to see how it goes if someone other than Carmax tries it. 

That’s about what I figured. While I want to believe this argument on principle, I’d kind of like it substantiated better. 

Agreed, but I think there’s a point about the Tesla recall worth making regardless: that company single-handedly drives a lot of public perception on AV’s, which isn’t good for AV’s.

I can’t really figure out what was going on from the text, but I think if the truck took the cyclist out of the car’s view, I would assume the cyclist also didn’t have a view of the car either... which as a cyclist myself, is why you stop regardless of right-of-way. You shouldn’t enter an intersection if your view of…

1. I agree with everything getting said here, and as am annoyed by the discourse around AV’s and AI as anyone.

And keeping with that same theme, they killed the Bolt and then frantically dug it back out of its grave again like 6 months later. Although to their credit, that’s the most pointed response we’ve seen to the problem of EV’s being too expensive. 

Dammit, stole the joke. if you can’t live with the smaller seat, don’t worry, Boeing has a solution there too!

*Jeopardy Beeper*

If this thing actually gets made, 95% of the sales will be to the retiring boomers in Florida that are already fighting like jackals over the few Murano CrossCabs that got made. Seriously, if you ever need a good laugh, look at what those things are changing hands for.

It kind of is. There isn’t really a way to keep this mold while also meeting modern safety standards, or at least without being prohibitively expensive.

What’s hilarious about these is that the Class-C motorhome market is the only thing keeping them around, even though you can still make such a thing out of Transit. And anyone whose driven both will tell you the Transit is zillion times better.