“Despite my general struggle to respect e-bikes as a cyclist,”

Despite my general struggle to respect e-bikes as a cyclist, I’m curious how they do with this and how they try to sell it. I’m guessing they’ll do it through HD dealers, because anyone I know of that would even be seen on, much less own, an HD product would be about as out-of-place at my LBS as a trump supporter at a…

Prior to Covid, I was getting ready to spend $2000-4500 for a nice level 3 ebike for commuting. I’ve had a chance to ride most of the offerings in this price range. Here are the reasons this thing is a mess:

Going on sale in March, the Serial 1 is to be the first bike from a new division Harley is spinning off called Serial 1 Cycle.

For all of Volvo’s posturing as a “sustainable” automaker, this is the worst possible sales model environmentally. Where do these cars go when they’re 4 months old? Especially considering the carbon footprint of EV production is still higher than ICE cars, this seems like evidence that Volvo is just pretending to care…

“at some point I should hit the center of the earth and start getting positive numbers right?”

I’m not sure you have to sell the Miata. I mean yeah, it’s not a bad thing to do, but if you say you can afford it and then still have money to buy a $1,000 Civic for no reason other than you might use it as a daily driver, you could just string along for two years just fine.

Our company has a new Power Wagon. I was on a trip in this vehicle and noticed the driver’s side door mirror said “OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE LOSING.”

I’d say it applies perfectly to the guy with the chipped diesel and a 6" fabtech bracket lift. Usually they seem to run low profile mud tires on oversize wheels for “stance” or something douchey like that. I fully expect the TRX to have 6" bracket lifts installed at the dealer.

Would be a good time for Chevrolet to bring back the “Like a rock” campaign too. 

So what would you have molded into the airbox of your sensible wagon-ish 6 seater if you were a car designers? 2 guys having a mostly agreeable chat?

GM would try something like this, but then get scared and water it down in production and call it the Meteorite. 

Knowing GM they’ll probably just do an Ice Age 6 trim/movie tie-in Trim package:

Has nothing to do with Ford, they’re just fans of Jurassic Park.

I’m impressed that Ram is trying to one-up Ford AND Suzuki* in one fell swoop.

Man is the post light on details.

It’s possible they’re getting 13 mpg on the highway with those small tires, but I bet the real average on that vehicle is single-digits. The weight saved by removing the roof is balanced out by the bad aerodynamics at speed, haha.

The S54, S65, and S85 were wonderful, perfect engines with hot garbage rod bearings. Fortunately there is now a remedy.

I have also transformed the way I work on my car.

Or you can just make this in 30 minutes for a lot less money.