I’m in a similar boat of “disappointed but not surprised”, but mainly because Democrats fumbled this so egregiously. I can’t be the only one who remembers Harris’ 2020 primary campaign lasting like 5 minutes, right? Biden should have gotten out of the way for a primary sooner, because they desperately needed a…

3rd Gear: The concept of the UAW running a car company itself...

I think the problem is they either don’t make enough or lose too much on the cheap models to justify building it. Shareholders have a problem with it more than anything.

Not only that, but there is so much historical data on austerity being an absolute disaster that posing it now is complete malpractice. Just because you figured out how to build cars in a tent doesn’t mean you can apply the same degree of cost-cutting to a country.

As someone who has done similar work to a slightly newer Mustang, “racecar for the road” here is an absolute joke. He’s probably making like 450 at the wheels max. All the other drivetrain work is basically just quality of life improvements for the MT-82. Putting a 3.93 in just makes 1st gear unusable, and the new 2nd…

I assumed this was a joke play on a mother-in-law, which would have been pretty funny IMO.

It’s because it’s coming from further to the right than the “partially crazy Republicans” and even Trump.  He’s actually on the record saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025, probably because there’s stuff in it that’s too deranged for him to publicly support. The media is just framing the whole thing like it’s…

Yep, that was roughly the same punchline associated with the story as well.

Somewhat related: There was something going around last week about how scientists were going to deploy as much AI horsepower as possible to “solve” climate change. The irony will be if it’s actually works properly, it’s just going to tell us shit we already knew: nuclear power and public transit, you morons. 

I think Max is only going to win the championship because there is no clear cut #2. Norris might have done it if Piastri and LeClerc hadn’t come on so strong and been competitive, but it looks more like the three of them are just going to cannibalize each other trying to run him down.

That makes even more sense. And yeah, I didn’t hate the looks, but it was otherwise just an abortion on wheels. 

I doubt any of the 799 folks who spend about $4 million on an F80 will care what I, a poor person, have to say, but I don’t care.

Making a V6 sound good is difficult, but yes, practically impossible with when there are turbos involved. Just the absolute worst combo you could ask for.

The early 2010's incarnation of the Dodge Dart. Making a little cheap sedan probably sounded pretty good on paper in the board meetings post-FCA merger, but by the time it actually got to the people responsible for designing such a thing? I’m convinced the engineers had to be made to work on this thing at gunpoint.…

You forgot the endless yearning to flip over. 

Indeed, although I think the 70's version of this was more about self-inflicted laziness, whereas what we have now is actually willed by the stock market.

My dad went with a Silverado instead of a Tahoe back in 2016 solely because the pickup had all kinds of money on the hood that the SUV didn’t. I’m curious if that’s a consistent thing that still exists, or varies seasonally. 

I actually think the only distinguishing factors between the highest-trimmed Expeditions/Tahoes and the Navigators/Escalades is opulence for its own sake. The formers exist so you can have everything from the latter while at least being sort of anonymous. 

Agreed wholeheartedly. I’ve always thought Farely seems like he would run a pretty good car company if the goddam shareholders would let him. I’m choosing to believe these quotes are him campaigning for that right.

I was thinking this too. The Apple Car seemingly got dumber the more information about it was made available, until it just got canned. It was so obsessed with appearing inventive, nobody bothered to ask if it should do something people wanted.