This is why he needs to be in some sort of system that’ll tell him “that’s a dumb idea” or “OK, that’s a good one, here’s how we implement it and if you announce it publicly before we tell you to, a month before we’re ready to ship, we WILL push you out, sue you, and win.” Some sort of board...with people to direct…

Hey, Game of Thrones didn’t need to source Chevettes and K-Cars. 

Literally his Ghostbusters role could be described as “teenager with a driver’s license who’s around to drive Ecto-1 so they don’t need a full adult to”. 

I would’ve liked to have been a fly on the wall for the “Steve, we need you on the turn-signal beat now that Torch is going off on his own” conversation.

- JAJ’s Trump barging in where he wasn’t invited and isn’t wanted is very on-brand for the character

1981 Dodge Omni Miser. It was also the first manual transmission I ever drove regularly after a one-and-done lesson on an ‘87 Chevy Sprint. 

Is there any reason why aircraft *shouldn’t* be the last place where masking is required outside a dedicated healthcare setting? Packed full, HVAC on recirc and pressurized.

Chrysler’s ace in the hole is that it’s the “name-on-the-door” division. It was Chrysler Corporation since time immemorial, it was Chrysler Group under FCA and nobody’s saying “Stellantis North America”.

That was my thought on reading the headline; “and 20-plus gallons of gasoline somehow isn’t?!”

Even a 10 min/100 mi recharge ratio is reasonable for non-work road tripping if there’s enough charging infrastructure that you can be reasonably certain of a chance to plug in every time you stop to take a leak, and can get a full charge and a sit-down meal at the same time.

I had wondered since I first saw your byline if it was a chosen name, and...wow. It goes so much deeper than just a pen name.  All  I can say is to join the chorus of people thanking you for sharing.

Is this the beginning of G/O Media offering to sell the rights to Torch’s back catalog back to him/The Autopian, always for a little more than he’s able or willing to pay, stringing him on for decades until finally in a Rosebud moment Spanfeller wills it to Otto?

The way I see it, even with actual pump prices slowly drifting down ($4.19 last time I looked, from a just-after-the-invasion peak of $4-65) in the current climate if you can’t sell EVs like warm bread you can’t sell cars.

Does it really matter though? Assuming the fake decoy car has the performance parameters of a Corolla XR/XRS hatchback that’s still more power than you’ll be able to use to get away in traffic at least until your past the Tappan Zee Bridge. 

I work in a grocery store that’s a pretty good company to work for, but we have a problem with one vendor that hasn’t sent in a merchandiser for months. One of the other vendors’ merchandisers said he used to work for them, they tried to hire him back and he told them he’d do it for $20 an hour. Hasn’t heard back…

So what makes the Maserati Grackle Folgers different from the regular Grackle again?

The Dodge dealer around here sold Yugo as a second line. They only ever had one GVX which cost significantly more than the $3990 base model; I’m sure anyone expressing serious interest would quickly be upsold to a (base non-Shelby) Omni or Colt. 

2-door coupe or 5-door liftback makes a lot more sense than the other way around - do you want to optimize weight and shell stiffness at the expense of functionality, or the other way around?

FWIU the Mazda 323-based US Escort (and closely related Aussie Laser) was a better car, model-for-model, than the Euro. The US-spec Escort GT was the true hot hatch and equivalent to this one, and a blast.

Eww, why would you want a 4-window crossover with those hokey “hidden” rear door handles. Euro/JDM =/= better.