You realize you're making an argument for the author that the author has never made right? The author said he wants a carless society on a car blog. You don't need to defend that. 

This is really bad gatekeeping. 

New York is famously the only city in America where there are jobs. 

Not particularly actually!

*stares in european cities that are banning cars*

Of course people think Tesla has growth potential, they aren’t a mature brand, their growth potential is still less than what GM or Ford puts out today. It still remains entirely likely that Tesla will never consistently turn a profit and fold, meanwhile all Ford and GM do is release cars and trucks people buy and…

It seems to me if you can buy 10, $1500 cars and sink money into them, you could possibly have 1 or 2 nicer cars for that same price. 

They seem to be straddling this really weird editorial line where personal car ownership should only be shitty vehicles that you buy for less than a $1000, drop a bunch of time and money into, and then never drive into a city. 

After surging to another record close Tuesday, the stock climbed as much as 4.2% on Wednesday, boosting the company’s market value to more than $88 billion — more than Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. combined.

That may be the case, but if enough in an area adopt the same philosophy it won’t matter. They’ve had 5 years to make progress on it and just haven’t, so I don’t know that this will suddenly spur a lot of movement. 

So, what’s going to happen if they don’t upgrade is that they’ll just disable pay at the pump and make everyone come inside. There is no way they’ll take a financial gamble when they can just worsen the customer experience. 

I watched part of the Tavarish video where he rebought his after he sold it like 3 years ago, and the car went from pretty good shape to sitting in a garage not running in that time frame, so yeah, I think the upkeep on these is going to be pretty significant. 

Well Jesus Christ please don't leave us hanging, how fast did the cars go?

I can’t tell from the hatch picture, is the trunk a flat load or does it drop down? 

That’s actually a somewhat interesting angle .

SBNation fired every single one of their California based freelancers.

It’s quite the interesting interplay between the “fuck the cops” and “fuck the millionaires” crowd I’d imagine. 

He’s a big fan of the Eminem Superbowl commercial. 

Including Rivian in the list is patently unfair because they haven’t teased a car for a decade that was completely unreasonable to begin with. 

I’m just glad my explitive will live on in the annals of Jalopnik history