I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive. I’m a car enthusiast and I care deeply about climate change. I strongly believe that, as car enthusiasts, we must support the electric revolution if car culture is to survive, but that either way, stopping climate change is the highest priority.

Any time people say blocked-off grilles on EVs look weird, I like to remind them of this:

This raises the question of whether tires are the equivalent of feet or shoes in the Cars universe. The race cars get their tires (and entire wheels) swapped out during pit stops. Are they having incredibly fast foot surgery, or just swapping shoes?

I wonder if the “Elon can do no wrong” wingnuts realize that they’re actively sabotaging their own cause?

Try living on nothing but water - no food at all - and see how that goes.

I’ve always thought so too. He’s subtle about it sometimes, but he tends to judge cars, especially custom builds, according to his personal taste rather than objectively. I remember when he drove the EV West electric BMW - he seemed to come into it looking for reasons not to like it, and then at the end, basically…

I know one point of reference won’t prove much, but I’m 22, have never eaten red meat in my life and never intend to. I do eat a lot of chicken and fish, and I wouldn’t want to go vegetarian or vegan, but I don’t think red meat is a necessary part of the human diet.

You’ve actually convinced me. That makes a lot more sense than the way I was thinking about it.

Most “truck bros” wouldn’t call the Ridgeline a truck.

I feel like this is being taken out of context.

It doesn’t help that the manufacturers actively encourage this behavior. Modern trucks are designed to look as aggressive and imposing as possible (the new Ranger is bigger than the F-150 was 20 years ago), and they’re advertised directly to the crowd that’s into all the macho “manly” Monster Energy bullshit.

Only if the road has all the room you want. Try to navigate a full-size truck through a city and you’ll quickly find yourself wanting to drive the damn thing off a cliff just to make the madness end.

Eh, I think both scenarios count as assholery, just on different levels.

That’s all well and good if the parking spot is enormous, but that’s not the case everywhere.

Agreed. I’m normally a “respect all facets of car culture” sort of person, but anyone who rolls coal deserves to have their truck crushed by a tank with them still in it.

Ehh, I wouldn’t worry about it. Crossovers like the Outback are the closest thing you can buy to a wagon nowadays. It’s still a car, just a slightly taller one.

The vast majority of sports cars aren’t driven like that. From what I’ve seen, people in sports cars are usually more careful than anyone else because they don’t want their baby to get scratched (and because they know fast-looking cars attract cops’ attention). If someone does weave through traffic at 90, they get…

Yeah we do, and it’s fucking dangerous. Ever see those videos of a semi pushing a smashed car sideways down the road for a mile because the driver can’t see it and doesn’t even realize it’s there?

Honestly, I think it’s quite irresponsible of Tesla to let consumers use this tech before it’s fully developed. They’ve seen the idiocy that humans demonstrate when presented with something called “autopilot” - you’d think they would have learned their lesson.