Does anybody actually use this credit? The Venn diagram of people who have adjusted gross incomes under $300k for married filing jointly and people who can afford to buy a new EV seems like two entirely separate circles.

How does it compare to a Ford Bronco in terms of offroad capabilities? More capable, less?

I’m raising a questioning eyebrow at the $600 / month in gas.

Tim Scott’s campaign raised $5.8 million last quarter; he has plenty of paid staffers. And plenty of campaign staffs are unionized. The UAW’s complaint here isn’t tenuous at all; it’s very direct and very clearly correct. It’s no more tenuous a link than if I saw somebody slashing the tires on a car and called the…

Yeah I am 100% dying in my house, absolutely never moving with that interest rate.

2014, I was vacationing in Fort Lauderdale with my sister. I had driven down from Brooklyn, and she’d flown down a few days later. When we were returning, she had to take a 6:00 a.m. flight to be able to get to work, and so I thought it would be a good idea to drop her at the airport at 5:00 a.m. and then just drive…

In 2021 I bought my wife an off-lease 2018 Lexus RX350 for $33,000.

In 1920 there were airplanes, movies, telephones, radios, cars, and typewriters. In 1970 there were airplanes, movies, telephones, radios, cars, and typewriters. There were spaceflights that maybe 100 people total worldwide had been on. The only serious technological breakthrough during that period was the…

Oh really? What major developments in technology occurred between 4,800 B.C. and 4,750 B.C.?

I’m sorry, I don’t know what fantasy land you live in, but I live here in the real world, where 50 years isn’t enough time for the way things are designed or built to change in any meaningful way. NASA may use computers to figure out how to land a man on the moon, but no private businesses are using computers for…

That sounds like something that would require using computers. They weren’t using computers in auto design when I was in Detroit in the 70's; I doubt that anything has changed that much in so short a time since then.

2 things I love:

Where I live a) there is no rental housing so if you don’t own a house you don’t live here; b) the median home price is around $900,000 and you cannot find any house at all for sale for less than $500k. So, no, nobody is driving a new Corolla. If you can’t afford a new luxury car, you buy a used luxury car.

Chrysler ME Four-Twelve. There’s a world right now where Chrysler matters; in that world, this car was produced.

If Jeep can make a plug in hybrid Wrangler, I'm sure Ford can manage.

Andthe PHEV version is... where?

Hey remember how Alfa Romeo gave every automotive journalist a test drive with a Giulia Quadrifoglio and they all independently broken down during their test drives? Those journalists weren’t aiming to crap on Alfa. Alfa did that to themselves. Ditto here.

In my town of just over 200,000 people on Long Island, there are a total of two Tesla Supercharging stations - one with 6 outlets and one with 12 outlets. In Brooklyn - population 2.7 million - there are 2 Tesla superchargers and 3 Tesla destination chargers. Unless there’s some super-secret map of hidden…

Tesla Model 3, more than every other new car combined. After that, probably Lexus NX or RX. Live on Long Island, drive to Manhattan for work.

Because I find this subject interesting, I actually sat down and watched that video. Thank you, so much, for pointing me to a 7 1/2 minute video that didn’t provide the relevant information until 5 1/2 minutes into it. Yet again proving that there is literally no piece of information that is conveyed better via video…