planktron
Planktron
planktron

I would be too if the only electric car my company had for sale was a tiny wart. 

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I...kinda dig it?

Here’s my vote for worst font in the industry. I give you the automotive equivalent of a "No Fear" T shirt. 

I think it helps that FCA’s products are well styled. Everything I can think of off the top of my head is handsome and clean, without relying on flavor of the week gimmicks, fake vents, floating roofs, weird C pillars, running lights that zig zag up to the A pillar, etc.

One would think Tesla would want the part back for analysis, and the easiest way to make that happen is to replace it under warranty. 

So almost $400 (w/ tax) gets you some sticks, a few magnets and some tent material. I’m in the wrong business.

I hate having to use an adblocker, because ads pay the salaries of the excellent staff of this website, but...there’s a limit. The site is almost unusable on desktop, and it would lock Chrome up on my Note 10 so bad I had to switch to using the stock Samsung browser.

Just, please, please, turn these off on the road and highway if you mount them to your rig.

I never noticed how weird this was. That weird cut in the bottom forward part of the door. The weird kink at the front of the window. The mirror is damn near in the middle of the door. Why is the roof in so many pieces?

In my late teens I bought a ‘93 Z28 6 speed w/ 180k miles. The previous owner had replaced the intake gaskets and front/rear mains. Other than that, I used Mobil 1 in it.

Now, at a 100,000 miles a vehicle is just getting broken in

The current 4Runner is one of the only good looking cars Toyota sells. I’m worried about how their current design direction is going to affect that.

Yup. After selling more than some of their competitors too.

The Zoe started plodding along three years [after the Frankfurt motor show unveiling in 2009]. A couple of reboots and redesigns slowly raised its profile with consumers.

Another problem is the e-tron’s cool factor, which is pretty low. It’s as anonymous as a Highlander. 

It most definitely is wank when a $13 Amazon flashlight is advertised with a body made of “aerospace aluminum” just because its made of 6061. Nobody tested the tensile strength of that flashlight. It’s marketing wank.

Military grade is the same marketing wank as aerospace aluminum