The ban is ostensibly due to the potential of spying and such, but really, it’s just a recognition that if the U.S. lets in cheap Chinese electric vehicles it’ll basically end the U.S. auto industry. Which is very possibly true. Chinese EV manufacturers have built efficiencies thanks to vertical integration that make…

Yeah, “big discount” in the title had me thinking in the $40k range at most. $63+k discounted is still too much.

Modern cars are, for the most part, fantastic. Plus, you don’t have to worry about dying if you get into a minor car accident, and they’re – for the most part – better for the environment.

unnecessary to you.

Yep. Doesn’t matter how good technology is with crumple zones, and automatic braking, and how many airbags you throw into it. In the end, physics will always win.

Would be interesting to see the stats on how often vehicles crash into the scenery vs into another car.

a note for people arguing that it’s democrats in control of california. Well, yeah, democrats do also enact right-wing policies, which is why by global standards they’re more like center-right and have been drifting rightward still.

Rich bastards support a rich bastard who will promote tax laws that benefit rich bastards?

What’s the point of winning the championship if you only won because other cars broke?

I watch all of qualifying and then 30 minute race recaps for this reason. Qualifying is the only time you get to see these cars run in anger and it is there that you can really see a driver operate on the knife edge. Verstappen’s crash in Jeddah comes to mind - he was beyond the knife edge there, well into the…

I haven’t even looked at non-Toyota products since 2007.

It doesn’t help that - almost invariably - the people who can have a tiny, late-model 2-seater are old, so anything low-slung is going to be hard to get into and out of. While I’m still relatively spry, by the time buying something without a backseat for daily use would be completely impractical, I’ll probably be…

I’m a little surprised that Kia hasn’t added AWD to the Carnival yet, especially given how much it plays up the SUV-like design

I still think that the way we use our minivan that the stow and go seating and AWD is really the selling point for the Pacifica. 

Nah, 4 billion is still a lot of money.

Both Swift and Musk are literally living in a different world than the rest of us while claiming that they need to be immune to it’s effects. They’re trying to define themselves as normies when they clearly aren’t. They both have enough money to pay for security (hell, they can afford a private army).

It would be nice to live in a world without crazy people, but if you’re a celebrity who tries your best to maximize your fame and popularity to the tune of $1B, you’ve got to expect this kind of thing.

Feel like Toyota got a lot of hate for their failure to jump straight into EVs. But it always struck me as really the only sensible approach. Maximize hybrid efficiency while investing in PHEV; maximize PHEV while investing in EV (and watch what everyone else is doing); have a reliable, fast-charging, long-lasting EV…

Folks started becoming cool with buying off Amazon, iTunes and Bandcamp ... etc. But in the age of you own nothing, it’s all a subscription and a license that can be taken away at anytime, regardless of what you were charged or what the TOS says. The enshitification and over confidence of capitalism has caused this.…