Neither Honda nor Toyota has any trouble moving their CVT cars without putting cash on the hood. Methinks it has to do with other aspects of the car and not the driving dynamics.

I can’t help but wonder how much cheaper this would have been if it had a twin-turbo J35 instead of all the electrical wizardry. I can honestly say I’d be interested in something like that if it was priced like a GT-R...but dropping this many bones when there’s no shortage of alternatives like the McLaren is tough.

The big thing is that you can use Waze or any of the native Maps apps for turn-by-turn navigation ala a built-in navigation system (especially important since most built-in navs are hot garbage). It can also display your text messages, control your music from the touchscreen or steering wheel controls (hell of a lot…

Thing is, the 1.5T’s are already having some teething problems. Honda is slowly rolling out a fix, but it’s a software fix for a physical hardware issue, so I’m not sold on it yet.

The 8th gen Honda Civic actually came from the Acura CSX, not the other way around

There are some (not I) that would prefer the tried-and-true NA K20 over the 1.5T even if they were the same price. Case in point, there’s a bunch of (older) folk on the HRV forums who like how it has the ancient R18 engine instead of the new 1.5T everything is getting even if it means less power and lower MPGs. Same…

That only allows you to stream your music from your phone...which is like 2% of what AC/AA allows you to do.

Objectively, the hatchback costs more because they all come with the 1.5T and has less rear leg and hip room. Subjectively, some don’t like the way it looks with all the faux vents (and hatchback is perceived as less classy).

Here’s the thing: it’s not different. Other companies that are profitable and develop “just an app” also have incredibly high costs. The difference is that they don’t also have crazy high Cost of Revenue (e.g. paying drivers). Look at eBay for instance; last year they spent $3.3B on sales/marketing, $1.2B on R&D,…

“Literally an app”...you clearly have no clue how complex something like this is that I don’t even know where to start. I bet you think Airbnb is just online classifieds, right?

Ok sure, go ahead and cut anything that’s not part of operations and turn a profit for a year. It’s not like you’ll lose market share and fall behind technologically compared to your competitors, right?

If you cut back on things like marketing, you lose revenue as well. If you cut back on lobbying, you increase the chance of some sort of existential risk torpedoing your future growth. They don’t spend money just for the sake of spending it...

While I wouldn’t touch Uber with a 50 foot pole, this is an incredibly shallow take. No reference at all to their S1 or company fundamentals or any semblance of due diligence or financial analysis; just a vague claim that investors (many of whom have orders of magnitude more experience and knowledge in this field than…

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That’s a single example. The ILX and TLX and MDX and RLX all got Earth Dream (DI) motors. For all we know they did it to the RDX to be consistent.

Apparently the DI motors have a tendency to produce more soot that dirties the rear bumper, so automakers have resorted to just pointing the exhausts downwards (Acura did the same thing with their cars for a few years).

Sounds to me like this patina fad is the redneck version of stance.

All you have to do is look at Lyft’s S1 and the income statement portion to see where the money is going. They pulled in $2.1B of revenue, but spent $1.2B on cost of revenue (i.e. paying the drivers), $330M on operations (AWS isn’t free and you have to pay local operations teams), $300M on R&D (they have over 1000…

Lets say there were a motorcycle version of Bird, walk up to and activate it with my phone and ride away.

A high stick that draws blood is a 4min double minor. At most you can score 2 PP goals (assuming you score the first one within the first 2 minutes).