I am the right age group for nostalgia for this car, but, man... I have no nostalgia whatsoever for this car. I could not possibly care less about this. It’s good that Toyota made an AWD Celica, but to me at least it looks... boring. And its performance is nothing at all compared to newer cars. It’s not even…

Aluminum body is a lot harder to fix than a steel body. Truck is longer for a given bed size, harder to maneuver on tight job sites. Same with width. Heavier, limiting the type of surfaces you can drive it over on job sites. Harder to repair yourself when something breaks.

1) I’m not a laissez faire capitalist so I don’t really believe in the purity or competence of the free market.

Jeep Gladiator. Sucks on road, sucks offroad because of the long wheelbase, sucks as a pickup because of the small bed. Just sucks.

Paying subscription prices for cloud-based or other external services doesn’t bother me. Sirius already costs $X/month. If you want to charge for OnStar, or for some other ongoing service that has recurring expenses, fine.

The single best and scariest (in my opinion) Black Mirror episode is where the guy ends up stuck in a house listening to the same Christmas song over and over again for tens of thousands of years.

Tesla has a lead in supply chain management that allows them to get vehicles in customers’ hands at the moment in a way that other manufacturers can’t. If Ford could make enough Mach E’s to meet demand, nobody would be buying Model 3's or Modely Y’s. 

I mean, I think we’re going to see (have already started to see?) a big drop in Tesla demand based on Musk revealing himself to be a madman with the Twitter acquisition. I know I wouldn’t trust any car made by a company he runs at this point.

Looking at the way Musk has run Twitter into the ground, I can’t imagine anybody feeling comfortable buying a car made by a company he runs.

It’s all well and good to talk about introducing all these new EV’s, but when there’s no stock of any of them anywhere it seems kind of... pointless. Will that change by 2024? Maybe? 

Musk’s plan was that Tesla would build an insurmountable lead in EV’s to the point where legacy manufacturers just couldn’t compete and would forever be chasing Tesla. That, uh, didn’t happen.

The biggest market for these cars is in the Middle East and they aren’t going anywhere for the time being.

I have a Switch Lite, and got the (famously broken anyway) GTA Trilogy for it, because playing San Andreas on a handheld has been one of my video game dreams for decades. And it was awesome! Except... I played the games in reverse order -- San Andreas, then Vice City, then GTA III -- and very early on in GTA III I had…

Conversion vans. Huge trend that dominated the 90's the way crossovers dominate the 2020's, and they completely and totally disappeared (although I suppose the “van life” trend is something of a revival). 

A friend of mine once crashed at 70 mph into a stopped semi and only survived due to modern crash protections; he too had woken up at 5 a.m. to drive to work. The one time I drove nonstop from Miami to Brooklyn, by the time I got to NJ I was too tired to be safe on the road but felt like I had to keep going because I…

I think the future for Chrysler the brand is as a near-luxury EV manufacturer, if it has a future at all.

I’m worried that the EV revolution is going to make convertibles entirely a thing of the past. As far as I can tell, the only EV convertibles ever offered in the US market were the original Tesla Roadster; the Smart EQ ForTwo Cabriolet (good luck finding one of those in the US, I think total sales were less than 1,000…

They had the Aspen and it wasn’t very succesful. 

I mean, with COVID this will be my third straight Zoom Thanksgiving. And to be honest I enjoy it way more than in-person Thanksgiving.

Most modern sports cars have brakes too big to allow 17" wheels. Even 18" is pushing it on a lot of applications.