Let’s just make sure this loveable but deadly fellow doesn’t find any booger sugar in his travels:

Thank you for making me chuckle on an otherwise typical Monday.

While it is a huge departure from the rounded curves of the previous model, I like this as almost a retro-futuristic throwback to the boxy SUVs from the 90s and early aughts. I look at this and see a turn-of-the century Ford Expedition from the front and side.

It sounds about right. I remember seeing a Tesla roadster at a track event around then and thinking about how they were going to continue making niche products (like the roadster itself) while advancing electrical infrastructure.

I cringe every time I read the word “gamification” almost as much as when I hear or read the word “woke” being used in an out-of-touch, antagonistic way (hi, Desantis). I feel like it is not used in a positive way and is dismissive of people who like and grew up with video games as simple, mindless button-clicking…

Back when I worked from home most of the time, it was nice to use no gas for most of my drives and the smoothness and ease of modulating the throttle in around-town and stop-and-go traffic is excellent and far superior to even the best gas engine/transmission combo. 

What about the Cybertruck? I mean, that is the first new product in awhile and by the time they work out body production and suspension issues, we should finally get it by 2030.

Tesla could ultimately become a charging infrastructure and battery production company with a few niche products. Regardless, shooting from the hip and making risky investments and decisions (while putting the risk fully on stakeholders) works for a multi-billion dollar company about as well as it did for running the…

That’s still a much better deal than most people got at that time. How do you like the PHEV powertrain? My A7 has been a great way to ease into the idea of owning an EV and I have come to love how smooth and direct the power and torque feel, even with a 150 hp/250 ft-lbs electric motor pulling almost 2.5 tons. The…

Ok, good.  I can scratch them off my list, just like Saturn and Tesla.

Even $440/month is a great deal for that car. My friend was shopping for the P2 back in late 2022 when most dealers were not only taking the tax credit for themselves on leases but also adding up to $6K on top of the MSRP. If only he had waited until spring of this year and he would be spending significantly less for…

I’m already pissed that I have to spend $30ish per month to get data service and full functionality of my $80K Audi but I would be livid if I had to spend on things that should be standard in a luxury vehicle.

It is so true. I have a friend who I would consider solidly upper middle class and when it was time to get rid of his 5ish year old TLX last year, he wanted to replace it with a full electric. Instead of looking at electrics that were in the $40K to $50K range, he was only interested in top spec cars . He wound up…

Yeah, for some reason the RAV4, CRV, Corolla, and Camry despite being good vehicles for their intended purposes, always seemed especially lame to me. The RAV4 and CRV definitely fit the bill as lame soccer mom car and when I see a Corolla or Camry, all I can think is that person could have just bought a Civic or…

Yes, I remember that article well.

Part of me wants to nominate rally-inspired champions like the STi 22B and Sport Quattro but after spending lots of track time in turbo AWD Subarus, I have to hand the award to the drivetrains of the STis of the aughts and early teens as well as the Legacy Spec.Bs that were produced in the late aughts. You can get…

What about the RAV4? Sure, Kanye has become a reclusive racist anti-semite but every time someone asks why I don’t just buy a RAV4, his lyrics are so relevant.  

That garbage is probably just foaming handwash in a can. Much like 98% of the “expert advice” in ticktock videos, the products are also complete shit.

For every person filling their diaper over “that’s not a REAL (famous car)“, there’s like 100 normal people who go “wow huh an electric (famous car)“.

A friend of mine bought a “lightly used” neon that was only a year or two old and it was terrifying at any speed over 55 mph. The wind noise was terrible, the car would shake, rattle, and shimmy, and it was pretty uncomfortable experience. The car was so beat to shit after a few years of use I think he sold it to a…