1st Gear: I can honestly say I wasn’t familiar with the whole SPAC thing until Trump’s shady new “tech company” announced they were using one, but the whole thing seems like a straight up scam to jump into the market without the actual resources to do so.

While SPACs can be good investments and useful vehicles for small companies trying to raise funds, they are very much NOT transparent and can be excellent tools for scam artists. I wonder which one this might be?

Get in front of the semi, flashers on, waving frantically, slowing down at a gradual pace. I’d wager someone else would help block a second lane, assuming they’re not filming as well. Better than DOING FUCKING NOTHING!

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but this feels like Tesla is drowning search results on “Tesla Whistleblowers” with this stupid object.

Thats a 4 door Cutlass. I'd buy another in a heartbeat. 

There’s no evidence that he’s making any attempt to do any such thing. At any rate, he is not owed anyone’s time.

Shouldn’t Italian be it’s own category?

Sounds like Ford has reached the cap limit on their loss leader. They can’t afford any more losses on the budget version. And people thought they were going to have enough for fleet service? Not at that price!

Given the writer’s stream-of-consciousness writing style on Reddit of all places and the expert’s splash of cold water, I wouldn’t hold my breath that it’s the LVN.

The Civic Si is a great car... for exactly the MSRP. It’s definitely not worth a markup.

That SS Dolphin looked alright until you put a photo with a real human being in there for scale, then instantly it turns into the Youbian Puma.

Well, not any car. I’m pretty sure David Tracy’s “unidentified car in a river bank” from yesterday probably can’t be brought back up to spec.

Solar panels actually do seem well-suited for the post-apocalypse.

Depending on which nerd you ask, a CyberPunk future is post-apocalyptic. If Elon is imagining a world were corporations have replaced governments, the earth is fouled with pollution and technology runs rampant with no regulation the CyberTruck fits right in.

I think the current problem is that gas is spiking worse in certain places and those are getting more attention as well. 

We as Americans have very short memories. Gas was cheap the last year and a half because nobody was driving. I looked at my personal data going back to 2012. In October of each year, I paid an average of:

1st Gear: Maybe if Americans had actually learned a lesson from the the last gas shortage and didn’t insist on driving giant behemoths of vehicles, this wouldn’t be an issue.

I’m gonna disagree. I largely don’t care what car names actually mean, I just want them to sound cool. Most Italian ones are just that. Quadrofolio, Competizione, Stradale, Testarossa, Superleggera, Pista, Scuderia, Squadra Corse, Disco Volante... all pretty fuckin cool if you ask me, even if most of them are boring…

Money laundering or peak stupidity?

It’s a rural district you moron. It’s also almost December and on the Maine border. Kids aren’t always able to walk. And good for you for walking, assuming all kids are able to is remarkably ignorant. Also good job assuming they’re all fat and badly behaved.