The only downside is that they are genuinely meant for commercial users, so the interiors are extremely bare boned. I’m a minimalist, but vinyl seats and AM radio is a bit too much even for me.

That’s funny, we bought a house last week - built in 1925, 1150SF, one bathroom - and the original owner raised four daughters there.

In 1960, the French got tired of all the math and created the New Franc - dropping two zeros on all prices. If we did that, then a cappuccino would cost a nickel. So numbers can go down.

Twitter was already dying; why not sell it to Musk at an insanely high price, watch him speed up the process, and walk off looking like a winner?

I think this every time my brain comes up with new methods to paralyze NYC.

Did he occasionally lunch at Union Square Café?

We will end up with 2026's decorations on the correct dates... in 2025.

I met a guy who was about to take his wife to London (and back to NYC) for an anniversary lunch on one of the last flights. Bartending didn’t make me rich, but it did develop expensive taste.

This entire “industry” is based on people’s need to keep making renders of big, cool, shiny things. If they can take some money from investors or launder some cash while they’re at it, then that’s just an additional benefit.

I think Valentine’s Day comes first, but yep.

I would start by building an OEM-looking station wagon out of a Maserati 430.4V. Then I would amass a kei car museum someplace nice and dry. Also, there is a decaying Mitsubishi Colt 1100F with the insanely rare four-door fastback bodywork somewhere in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and it needs saving.

I am not entirely clear about the sentence “Maybe even more than cars, motorcycles are great candidates for electrification.” How so? Weight is the enemy of motorcycles, and range is still important as pointed out by several of us. Also, they’re largely toys and thus largely immune to gas prices.

They actually built and delivered 111 trucks? This sounds much better than what anyone had expected. I am genuinely impressed.

Not sad to see the disruptor companies doing badly, but obviously they are the canaries in the coal mine as far as the economy as a whole is concerned.

My car is a 1993 Honda Today Associe, a kei car. Kind of the Mercedes CLS of kei cars, a four-door “coupé” with an unnecessarily low roofline. When me, my wife, and our two children ride in it we can only sit in one particular arrangement since the booster only fits in the front passenger seat and the kid’s seat only…

90 percent of Twitter users never did to begin with.

I feel like Geely’s usual methodology will mean four or five (or eight) new “swedish” brands. I suggest Amazon, Gyllenhammar, Gothenburg, Nyfiken for a start. Hell, bring back DAF while they’re at it.

Half the Instagram videos are just reposts from Tik-Tok, as far as I can tell.

Don’t forget the 456! (~5500cc / 12). I guess I always thought of it as a four-cylinder rule, but I guess it may have only been because there were no Ferrari fours after the 860.

I like cars and I like both the sound of a V8 (especially an Italian one) and this bonkers swap. I just hope the 3-liter V8 found its way into a Toyota Cressida or something (can’t think of a suitable RWD Honda).