Dealers have had to pony up for special tooling to be able to sell certain cars for decades. You couldn’t be a Hellcat dealer without spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on tooling and training. Same with the Crossfire. Same with Honda Type Rs. Same with MazdaSpeed. Ad infinitum. Electric cars are coming.…

Dealerships need to die.

...BEVs are stacking up on our lots.

The NADA’s aversion to EVs isn’t really about EVs per-se. There are three key issues:

Leasing has become a popular way for customers to try out an electric vehicle without any long-term commitment.

Gen Z would have organized a flash mob protest that would have quickly devolved into selfies with the sign and probably people sitting in the road to “raise awareness” of something horrible they think is happening on the other side of the world.

I don't think their reference to a "bug hunt" was about the xenomorphs,  otherwise they wouldn't have needed to bring Ripley along as a consultant.  The Marines didn't even know basic things like the xenomorphs having acid for blood and had to be told by Ripley.

I don’t think Gen Xers will be like the Boomers in that. First you have to care about something to be pissed off that it isn’t like that anymore.

“depth of at least 1m”. Maybe should be 1mm?

Nah it’s not that. We are the Atari generation. The only way we know to swing an ax is to slam the button next to the joystick for the Barbarian on Gauntlet.

Are you being serious with this title and this comment?

Tom, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I agree with everything you’ve ever written... until this. Based on all the pictures at the bottom, and approximately 15 seconds of image searching, you are clearly missing the 3rd rule of a proper wagon. To maintain the proper wagon look, the rear/third window must extent at…

“Retired Carnival ship,” “last-minute renovation” and “three years at sea on the goddamn thing” are not things that should be in the same program.

In their defense, all they forgot was the very first step!

They didn’t even buy a car, they just handed Tesla $250,000!

Missing from the writeup, but in the NYT link:

This will be perfect for someone that never hauls or tows anything.

Pictures of it taking up three parking spaces is appropriate.  

What forest is that particular shade of green?

Given that some Tesla buyers paid $15k for imaginary FSD, paying just over half that and actually getting something doesn’t seem like such a bad deal.