Yeah, it’s great to know that if I’m ever kidnapped and locked in the trunk of my Boxster I’ll be able to escape. :-|

I’m interested in principle, coming from the perspective of a fan of two-seater Porsches who, being unwilling to buy an $80,000 four-banger, now has nothing to spend money on.

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Why design, manufacture, and destructively test an entirely new shifter when the old way worked just fine?

Huh? There’s no blanket prohibition against amateur radio activities on military bases, nuclear or otherwise. Apparently the Navy actually sponsored a club station at one point ( https://www.facebook.com/VQ9X-Diego-Gar… ) but recently shut it down, so “hams who visit Diego Garcia will have no choice but to use their…

$100?! Seems like ham radio would have been a popular hobby around there.

(a) Because the parking pawl 0n an automatic transmission is more than capable of holding the car by itself, if the car is actually in Park.

When you change the way things work for no reason and people die as a result, you can expect some criticism.

Human factors are a thing. Other industries such as aviation have learned this by killing a lot of people. Sounds like it’s time for FCA’s engineers to read some of the same books.

Gotta assume we’re looking at the last 5 seconds of that guy’s life.

They’re harder to open ... they always have this WHOLLY UNNECESSARY automatic open and close ‘feature’

Come an’ get one in the yarbles, if you’ve got any yarbles!

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.” — Abraham Lincoln

Stuff happens at jobsites. Ric Romero has more on this late-breaking story at 10:00.

The toolbox, though, is a perfectly realistic scenario that both truck beds should have been able to survive.

The ad with the bears and the cages was cheesy and pointless, but I’ve got to say that the ad with the blocks being dumped into the truck beds was hard not to take seriously.

Porsche could hire her to pimp the 718 Boxster, now that they’ve decided that they don’t want their two-seaters taken too seriously.

While you’re not wrong about the motivations behind the shoot, the fact is that they went way too far and ended up looking ridiculous. They were supposed to use the camera to suggest that the car is large, not make the audience laugh at it.

Or, you know, not photograph the scene with the camera at the level of the wheel wells.

Simple. It just didn’t occur to the “creative” people — who were selling razor blades the day before and batteries the day after — to verify her measurements against those of the car. You can bet she never even saw a Buick Cascada before she showed up at the day and time specified by her contract.