I’m a manual transmission die-hard and I totally agree with this. Why would you add a transmission where it’s not needed? Just so people can pretend to shift? It’s just more drivetrain loss and reduced efficiency for no gain, considering electric motors have 100% torque available from zero rpm. Reduced efficiency is…

Battery drainage is faster at highway speeds because of aerodynamic drag, not the higher motor speed. Aerodynamic drag increases with the square of velocity. So if you’re going twice as fast, it requires FOUR times as much power. No way around that. It’s just physics. Three times as fast requires eight times as much…

There’s some what might be considered self-aware humor about that at the end in the bar.

I thought the majority of the voice acting was really good too. I’m sure folks can point out some instances where it was weak, but overall it was enough to get me to like some of the characters.

I thought it wasn’t bad for a tutorial level before you get into the actual meat of the game. It is just a game. It’s supposed to be controversial because that gets articles like this written, which gets more people interested in it. The real test will be how does the actual game hold up. We won’t know that till the…

Why? Just to cheat? Sort of defeats the whole purpose since the reward is the accomplishment of having completed it yourself.

Yeah, 11 years ago. Look at the price for a used Fit now. Used EVs are cost competitive now when looking at similar size/quality vehicles.

Of course, everyone driving an electric vehicle means cheaper gas for you. You know supply, demand, all that. Part of the reason gas been cheap for so long till this last crisis has been the decrease in demand because of EVs and more fuel efficient cars, like the Prius everyone loves to complain about. If all those…

Well, that would help increase gas prices. You wouldn’t want to reduce demand for gas, and hence reduce gas prices by encouraging people to buy electric vehicles. If gas prices went down, how could you blame Biden? No, much better to sabotage your own people to try to increase gas prices further so you have something…

Because the posers buying the automatic will find louder more desirable.

$15k, space for toys and sleeping. The answer (that no one wants to hear) is clearly minivan.

Well, there’s no shortage of the supply of stupid people, we can agree on that.

This looks good. Hope it comes out for consoles.

You are correct, there are always stupid people, BUT you don’t have to be one of them. You can refuse to buy cars with dealer markup or cars (or PS5s for that matter) from scalpers. Anyone doing that is part of the problem.

I guess if they want to appeal to the posers, an automatic would be good...

Put the firing squad in bikinis and really nail the bounce physics for recoil, with slow-mo replays of course. I’m sure it will be a hit.

I think the bigger problem is they’re all advertising the 40mpg, then creating a lot of additional friction for even being able to purchase that model. No dealers will stock the hybrid model that gets 40mpg, only special order, and you know they’ll be trying to upsell the Ecoboost models off the lot. “Well, if you…

Do any drivers actually care if it doesn’t even have a manual available?

I do not disagree. Just lightheartedly pointing it out.

Ah, so it’s like religion.