Let me pile on. I live in a very not-urban place, and travel to...absurdly not-urban places. I carry extra gasoline, I travel to such remote locations, as do thousands and thousands of other people.

That’s adorable, city feller. But no, he’s not an edge case. A lot of us don’t live in cities or suburban areas. Also, a lot of us drive way, way off the beaten path where no one will ever put a charger.

Does it float? (The answer is no.)

🤣🤣🤣 “Cold weather.” 8 °F to 10 °F (-13°C to -12 °C)? I am rolling on the floor, laughing.

What do you suppose the maximum weight of the recipient vehicle would need to be? I’ve been wanting for a while to put a bike engine in my Jeep Cherokee XJ (a little under 3,000 pounds, as she sits, and that’s before you take out the 4.0), but I’ve been repeatedly told “that’s too heavy” and “you’re insane” and “let…

This is great, and absolutely a wonderful project with many useful benefits.

What’s most adorable about this video is how he keeps referring to the season as “winter” and the temperatures as “cold”. Southerners are so darned cute.

It seems, mein Freund, that we’ve only one choice: install a five-link coil spring rear in some XJs. Just imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth if we put a desert racing suspension into a car with 25 years of Michigan rust.

Right now this quality stuff is just amusing. In 30 years, it’s going to be literally hilarious.

Right now this quality stuff is just amusing. In 30 years, it’s going to be literally hilarious.

The thesis of the article is that there are many similarities between the two cases, and then one major difference. That thesis is correct. Faraday Future would actually be a substantially worse comparison in all but the one way (i.e. production), since those bullet points don’t tend to apply to Faraday Future.

I say all of this mainly in jest since Tesla and Twentieth Century could not be more different in that one was a giant failure and the other just a regular car company now. Elio Motors is probably a better comparison for Twentieth Century, at any rate. It’s almost as if a lot of this stuff is as old as time.

Stiffening the other side is a very good idea, but unless you’re going to wheel her hard between now and then, it can wait until it’s actually warm out.

Fear. My daily driver and only vehicle was build in 1995, has substantial unibody rust, compromised seat mounts, slightly more lift than necessary, and no doors. Any accident at speed means death or serious injury - much like riding a motorcycle. So while the improved awareness of superior visibility plays a factor in…

I’d bring back Pontiac, GM’s barely-concealed clone of BMW. If GM is going to continue doing the “one brand for each niche” method, then Pontiac should be the performance brand. Chevrolet is the baseline, Cadillac the luxury brand. Keep Olds or Buick if for some odd reason a “low-end luxury” brand is needed, but why…

If I might suggest a solution to the problem.

It’s definitely interesting to drive new cars and recalibrate your expectation of ride quality and safety and vibration. (To be fair, I drive a 1995 Jeep Cherokee with a bit of a lift and no doors. Everything recalibrates my expectations.)

Agreed! Definitely misread that - though my advice remains the same, in that he should continue driving older cars, rather than try to find some sort of new automobile without most new automobile features. (The newest car I’ve ever owned is my 1995; I can’t imagine trying to find another car like it made today!)

I’ve never in my life had a car that was less than 10 years old...

It gets rinsed off sometimes, is all.