Yep. You can import just about anything you want, but American cars will be extremely costly because large engines and general inefficiencies. Nothing is actively withheld, it’s just that they have to come up with a question every week.

“Cease and decease” sounds a bit strict, hopefully desisting is all it will take.

That’s the correct take.

“The Hummer’s weight and suspension settings met a driver with a seeming lack of mechanical sympathy”

There are definitely some victims, as “enthusiasts” convinced everyone around them to invest (so that they could make their quick bucks).

humanoid, perhaps?

11,000, other than that you were spot on.

Very nice, that looks like my level of amenities. Now I just have to wait 17 more years or so on that one.

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?

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.