The average age of cars on the road is not going to continue to be 12 years. Things are going to change slowly, and then all at once.

Interest rates seem to me to be the real problem. I would love to turn my Mustang into a weekend cruiser and buy something more efficient as a daily driver, but who in the world wants to pay 8% or 9% on a car loan?

The refining capacity issue is why it’s going to be economically infeasible to own an ICE car anywhere in the United States by 2040 at the latest. Petroleum companies can see the writing on the wall and know that demand for gasoline is only going to go down from here; there will be no new gasoline refining capacity,…

Perhaps uniquely among all states, the overwhelming majority of poor people in New Jersey live within walking distance of mass transit.

Good.

I vote NP solely because I have a 4 year old who’s going to be starting kindergarten in the fall, and dropping her off in a purple 1985 Cadillac Coupe deVille would be a very confusing cool dad flex.

Frameless windows. They’re designed to lower about a half inch when you start to open the door, and then raise a half inch after you close the door, in order to ensure a proper seal. Which is great... except when the temperature is below freezing, and the windows can’t go down because they’re iced shut, and so you…

There’s no need to put trackers in people’s cars; cars already have license plates and plenty of states have RFID chips embedded in those license plates (NY uses this system for bridge and tunnel tolls if you don’t have an EZ Pass). Just set up RFID readers every mile on highways and streets; no worries.

I’m going to buck the trend here: as somebody who street parked in Brooklyn for almost 20 years, I know the struggle of looking for a parking spot and not being able to find one because your car is too long. A Honda Fit is a great choice, but I’m going to argue it’s not the best choice. Compare the specs on these two…

The Big 3 collectively have no vehicles starting under $20k for the 2023 model year, and only three vehicles starting under $25k: the Chevy Trailblazer, Ford Maverick, and Jeep Renegade. 

My question is, can you use this with non-VR games? I would like to be able to play games in bed without waking my wife up while she’s on the other side of the bed, and using this strictly as a display that only I can see would make it worthwhile for me.

I have to question in what way Tesla counts as a “luxury” brand. In what way is a Model Y more “luxurious” than a similarly priced Mustang Mach E? In what way is a Model 3 more “luxurious” than a Hyundai Ioniq? Honestly, in what way is a Model S more “luxurious” than a Chrysler 300? What are we even talking about here?

The software glitch is that the computer order banks for Escapes are empty in favor of Bronco Sports.

You need to think about ICE cars the same way we thought about cathode-ray tube televisions. They were everywhere, they were ubiquitous, until... they immediately weren’t. Within a span of ten years, new ones stopped being manufactured; people stopped making parts to repair them; and people stopped making content for…

Sorry; no. It’s about the Pontiac G6 coupe and the high-luxury lifestyle associated with these cars at the time.

When the EU and China and much of the United States has banned the sale of internal combustion engined vehicles and thus the demand for gasoline has fallen off a cliff... where do you think the gasoline for maintaining a fleet of ICE cars in Mississippi or Arkansas is going to come from? How much do you think a gallon…

There’s also the problem of charging at home, which for a lot of us requires a massive overhaul of our home’s entire electrical system.

I don’t know if anybody is the right age to remember it, but these cars were so hot at the time that they sparked a gigantic dance music hit about them:

People mistaking self- propelled howitzer for tanks is extremely common; this flipped that. The Ford M1918 was America’s first domestically designed tank (in 1918); previous American tanks were licensed copies of Renault designs.

It’s a common misconception that the M1 Abrams is a tank; it’s actually a self-propelled howitzer. The Army’s current main battle tank is the Ford M1918.