I owned a 5th gen Prelude. It was hands-down my favorite car to live with - engaging, reliable, dirt cheap to maintain, and way more fun than a FWD has any right to be.

This Ford/Tesla comparison keeps happening and it is bogus because the two companies have completely different capital structures. Ford has a significant amount of debt, and Tesla has very little. To compare the total values of the two companies you have to add each companies outstanding debt to the equity market cap,…

The tax benefit is at most around 45% of the winning bid, assuming the whole purchase price is deductible (which it almost certainly isn’t). So the charity aspect can reduce the effective purchase price, but it can’t return more than it costs.

It usually isn’t hard to find an acquaintance with something close to the car you’re looking at (e.g. same model different trim) who will let you drive it if you ask.

Meh, collectibility and all but $100k will get you an exceptionally well-sorted 360 with plenty of cash left to spare for several years’ worth of maintenance. I know which one I’d rather live with.

I know one of those public servants who worked extensively on the L-train plan. I’ve heard a LOT about it and all the alternatives over the past several years. Cuomo’s last-minute change (which completely blindsided people inside the MTA, mind you) is not only going to take far longer but cost far more (multiples…

I never expected to see Betteridge’s Law of Headlines definitively disproved, and yet here we are.

Imagine a New Yorker seeing it for the first time.

Breaking news: Elon Musk discovers that transit is hard, demands credit for revealing this knowledge to the rest of humanity.

The car chase in “The China Syndrome”:

I’m not going to be drawn into defending whatever nonsense the MTA spouts - it’s a horribly run organization with a ton of structural issues and managed by politicians to boot.

Ridership is down a bit from the recent peak, but still up enormously (looks like 70-80% eyeballing the various online ridership time series) from the 90s. I’m not trying to give the MTA a pat on the back here, I’m just saying that it’s a relevant fact in the discussion: if ridership had stayed constant or grown at a…

I’m kind of skeptical that subway service has deteriorated as dramatically as people claim, especially when you factor in how much ridership has grown. What is definitely true is that everyone today has a cell phone with a camera and social media accounts.

On paper, the Kia Stinger and Tesla Model S 75D have fairly not at all similar power figures

Shhhhhh... don’t tell everyone until I get one!

Serious question: can someone more knowledgable than me please disambiguate the various land-speed records that are relevant to this car? I recall that Thrust SSC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrustSSC) already broke the sound barrier on land, i.e. traveled well in excess of 763 MPH, but I don’t know if there is…

I was thinking about getting a spec Miata before next track season, but...

Cars flip way to easily in the movies.

They look like the answer to the question “What would Michael Bay’s Megatron look like in the form of a wheel?”

I understand why GM never puts cars like this into production - their manufacturing operations and supply chain are set up to mass-produce large numbers of more low-to-moderate price vehicles, not hand-build small numbers of high price vehicles.