Initially, I was a little scared when I saw the barrel in my way, but then I remembered something: I drive an SUV, and according to the ads, I can therefore roll over anything. Snow. Ice. Curbs. Small buildings. Aardvarks. People who write "would of." Libertarians. The late Bob Hope. Vegetable gardens. So I decided to…

That's brilliant. While you're waiting in line at the post office, your Model S could get a full charge!

That's matte? Looks more like lustre to me. Matte doesn't photograph like that.

Even if you're only uploading low-res surveillance video, you'd still need a cellular data connection for that, which sounds like it'd get pricy fast.

There is a lack of jobs for laborers. There is no lack of jobs for skilled workers. The BLS estimates the unemployment rate as of last month at 5.7%. Anything below 6.4% is considered "full employment".

Was his name [insert name of any taxi driver in Manhattan here]? Because I've had that guy 4/4 times now.

(Speaking for California, not sure about elsewhere:) Honestly, books are the most expensive part of community college. At around $30 tuition per unit, CC is the bargain of the century. You can do two years for around $2000. Add in the increased quality of life for everyone in the community from the side effects like…

Yesterday a Mercedes Sprinter blasted past me on the highway going at least 95. Are you telling me it was secretly an RS mule?

The sticker prices are pretty bad, but the real prices aren't. First off, there are $1000-1500 incentives on every model that are basically permanent, and the real key to making the interiors good, the Limited trim, opens up a ton of room for negotiation.

18.5 kWh/62 miles. That was my energy consumption with the car driven mostly in Comfort mode. What's that in US mpg? No idea, but it doesn't matter because all those miles were absolutely free, and I even had air-conditioning.

It almost reminds me of Dave Hill's photography, except there aren't nearly enough people with distorted faces tripping over everything in the scene.

I know you're ready to dismiss Haldex out of hand because you've read those angry, grammatically incorrect forum posts from B6 S4 owners on Vortex 10 years ago (or last week) who derided it as "weaksauce" or "not real AWD" or "gay LOL." Your information is out of date.

The problem is that too many concept cars have lied to us over the years. There was the Cadillac Cien, a cool supercar concept that never saw the light of day. The Cadillac Sixteen, a full-size luxury sedan that never happened. The Mazda Furai, an awesome race car concept that never made it past one unit. The Ford…

Basically, frivolous lawsuits are why we can't have nice things.

You hit the nail on the head. The Mazda3 was the car I wanted to buy when I was looking to buy last year, but it was just too expensive. The volume trim starts at over $22k, which is kind of absurd compared to the competition. Even the bottom-trim-no-options version is almost $20k.

That's because they're not leasing Camries, they're leasing F-150 Super Crews.

How about a 4x4 of beer? SIXTEEN whole cans!

This, this, this, and so much this. Thank you for being the voice of reason. I actually deal with this on a daily basis, as my stepbrother leased his Ford Fiesta around the same time I bought my Hyundai Elantra (new, but it's a long story—months of trying to buy one used went nowhere and I almost fell for a scam...).…

I have a friend who, no joke, used to live in the CA central valley and commute 140 miles each way to San Francisco for school. His home and school were both less than half a mile off the highway. In 3 years, he put about 200,000 miles on his Prius, of which 99.3% were highway miles.

This is roughly equivalent to the "First they came..." problem. If someone is not successful, then nobody is listening to them. Chris's point is still valid; if someone as successful as he is having trouble making money in the current market, imagine the people who are making high-quality content but have yet to be…