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…

That’s such a stupid statement too. “Meh, it’s only wearing on the sidewall - what’s the worst that could happen?” 

Hmm looks like something they should have identified if they, you know, tested it.

That fluff piece he did on the cyberclunk was a real turning point for me on Cammisa.

Remember when Cammisa spent 30 minutes praising the engineering and ingenuity of the Cybertruck on YouTube? I was almost convinced that this... this thing could be actually good. Now I’ve lost quite a bit of respect for the guy, as not long after that video was posted, underlying problems were brought to light in the…

I dig it. Maybe I can afford one in about 15 years.

I generally regard Jim Farely as one of the less-dumb CEO’s but holy shit:

Of all the scams ever pulled on the American people, linking cars to freedom has to be the biggest. Cars aren’t freedom. They’re expensive and the damage that having “Just Drive” as the default answer to every problem has caused so many more self perpetuating problems.

I have a house in Nevada. Nice try. 

Yeah, but they also have functional public transit which does a lot of legwork re drunk driving.