There was a guy that worked at the place my wife works... he went 10 years making the same hourly wage. Professional consulting company, and he was in a highly skilled type position. TEN YEARS!

Good point on taking it too far (I’ll admit I haven’t seen an ATS in person). And it’s true the proportions of the BMW are good looking at it from the outside; I think they could do better with the room they have to make it a bit more useful. My wife’s car (S3) is smaller than a 3-series and the back seats are fine.

They are probably following BMW’s lead on the back seats. I mean, I had an F10 5-series and even that car had pretty limited rear legroom.

The old Saabs also had the engine mounted backwards, with the clutch sitting up by the radiator and all the belts conveniently impossible to reach, up against the firewall.

The problem is Uber views the driver as a stopgap measure until driverless vehicles are available. Whatever that driver is paid in the meantime is eating into Uber’s profit margin until such time as they can cut them completely out of the supply chain.

Soft of OT but just to add to the Amazon return policy arc. We regularly buy dog food on Amazon, and one case had a damaged can (we are talking one can out of a 24-pack). I requested a replacement and clearly stated I only wanted one can, they overnighted a whole case the next day with explicit instructions not to…

Yeah, but between the regular Raptor and this Ranger, the latter is more practical, so I’m still hoping we get one in the US. If a few Raptor customers opt for this Ranger instead of the full-size Raptor you’re still moving in the right direction.

They are somewhat evoking the iphone 4 design with the X, since it has glass front and back mounted to a stainless steel frame. The only problem is out of the box they feel like holding a bar of soap, so you pretty much have to put a case on it. The iPhone 4 wasn’t as bad in that regard and I had one for years with no…

Come on, 80s toyota pickups go for crazy money around here. I saw one guy asking almost 5 figures for a low-mile example.

...Or around 2.8 million L/100km in the standard metric fuel economy units

Well, one potential problem I see is preventing the onboard potable water you’d need for it to work from freezing in winter.

We have an aussie cattle dog mix and a lab mix. The aussie seems perfectly content to skip a meal. The lab on the other hand would probably eat a bowl full of batteries if you put it in front of him.

This is the important thing, though. The average car owner is terrible at maintaining their car and an EV drivetrain will fare much better under neglect than an ICE drivetrain. There are less maintenance requirements to forget about/not do. The ones that are required - tires, suspension, brakes - are much harder to…

Agree, I prefer this setup as well. The GT’s paddles are basically useless and while it’s nice to row your own, I’ll make the sacrifice to have the handbrake.

Me either, at the moment I don’t see anything that fits my needs.

People likely had similar arguments about horses a hundred years ago. Horses are still around. ICE cars are not and will not go away. There will always be ICE die-hards, and I suspect the R&D budgets dedicated to ICE options will pivot to a bigger focus on enthusiasts as the market becomes more saturated with EVs for…

Smart charging stations could even theoretically use the EV’s battery capacity as storage resource, discharging from the EV when the grid needs energy. In areas where cars remain parked longer than required to fully charge (for example, airport garages), there’s a lot of potential.

it should be pretty obvious there’s no filler cap and somethings wrong

I’m ok with it as long as we can still have books.

I meant consumers in the specific sense (e.g. consumers of fiction), not the broader sense, although it’s a valid point.