That whole first paragraph of your comment has been accurate for like the last 7 years.

The Toyota allocation process is absolutely maddening. While it is kind of good business to maintain a small amount of artificial scarcity, what they do is ridiculous, and lets the dealer have you over a barrel.

I was back in the neighborhood I grew up in a few weeks ago, and the cops changed their white and gold paint job to black with almost-black lettering that I swear to god, you need 20/20 vision to tell apart in broad daylight.

1st: I wonder how much easier it would be to profit off EV’s if they fired the room full of 7-figure salaries that said “branding” them separately would be important to it’s success.

Seriously, I work in construction, and while it’s not as bad now as 2020/2021, the world is still adjusting to a new normal. Covid is going to ripple in the supply chain until the end of the decade.

Hydrogen’s fundamental flaw is that even though the *element* is so abundant, you net a huge loss of energy getting it to a state where it’s usable as a fuel. You could still make it worth it with the right moves with infrastructure, but there’s not nearly enough of that happening.

Almost every mechanical system fails eventually due to wear/heat/friction. Whether or not it does in a reasonable time is down to the execution.

The union’s opening demand was 77%!!

That the opening offer from the company-side was a 50% raise is proof that this is a free market problem: What these people do is immensely valuable, and there aren’t people lining up to replace them.

Seriously, and that whole upper level to the dash is scrambling my brain. Get that shit out of here, put in a normal gauge cluster, and drop the windshield for another 6" of forward visibility.

And furthermore, it’s not like the CVT is a flawed concept, it’s just that Nissan makes the absolute worst ones on the market.

lmfao, this is the epitome of the old george carlin bit about how republicans only care about you until you are born, and after that you can get fucked

The Good: NASCAR needs 23XI more than the people that own 23XI need NASCAR (Hamlin could retire any year now, and MJ could do literally anything else). 23XI is probably the only org that has that kind of leverage over NASCAR, and I’m all for them using the hell out of it.

god, that new logo they came out with a few years ago looks so damn dumb

I don’t disagree, but I don’t even think the TOS being long, dumb, and bad is even the point here; it’s trying to apply that TOS (particularly the arbitration clause) to a person who didn’t actually agree to it, and who was receiving a different service than the person that did. Applying the document that liberally sou…

I would have called this NP 10 years ago. Now it’s a goddam gift from god.

That’s what I’m thinking too, like it’s a low-background-radiation steel that is needed for things like MRI machines.

I don’t hate the idea of GAP insurance being a necessary evil for you to finance beyond your means, but IMO the better critique is a more general one: More debt is not a good long term solution to increasing car prices. It creates a dangerous cycle where they keep getting more expensive because lenders will keep on…

Indeed, although soulful is probably just the wrong word for it. Anyone who drives and E46 M3 back to back with a G82 M4 can tell the former has a totally different sensation to it. IMO Clarkson is just doing a really bad job of expressing preference for something that a lot of other enthusiasts would agree with him on…

He stands up as soon as the seatbelt sign goes off on the plane.