Draw a Venn digram of all those things — comfort, safety, FWD, mature, under $15K, reasonable maintenance, Colorado-climate friendly, good road-tripper — and you’ll see this baby right dead set in the middle:

Not sure what they wanted, but remoting into the server with a data connection has been a thing forever for heavier tasks... (at least since 3G internet anyways for laptops and general internet for )

“More of the EV talent is heading out than in,”

Seems like you’d have to hold the visor with one hand while you dialed with the other, which’d be pretty awkward while you’re driving.

“Where have all the good men gone?” is the first line of ‘Holding Out for a Hero’.

My first assumption is that it was his “new friend” Elon Musk. 

1st Gear: another example of how geurilla marketing can trump actual facts and science...

I completely understand why new technology has to trickle down (to some extent) from the upper end of the market - because there’s more margin there and because there is less price sensitivity. But I completely agree that

The best thing for the environment is to just reduce driving. But that involves actually building out a public transport infrastructure, increased work from home, building smaller and lighter vehicles, and maybe not having 5 kids that each need to take some sort of after school activity every day of the week. Then…

That’s just what the mainstream media wants you to believe, man. I read an article on NewsForPatriots.net that said that doctors wanted you to believe in Covid because it made them money. And FreedomNews12.net just had an article about emissions from solar panels being the reason for global warming if it exists which…

I wonder if some perception of EVs is additionally colored by behemoths like the Cybertruck. Yes, it’s an EV, but it -feels- like an 8000 SUX.

First Gear: The media has GOT to stop equating “some dude skimming a few Google search results” and “scientists painstakingly subjecting a falsifiable hypothesis to experiment.”

He understands EVERYTHING better than ANYONE... he said so himself:

I got to see this first hand in the professional tools business.
We made 40% of our catalog here in the US. But our stuff cost 500% more than you’d find a Harbor Freight.
We’d meet up with electricians all the time, and what do you see outside the Union hall? Toyota Tundras, Honda Pilots, Subarus, maybe some F150s and…

That’s typically what they have done where I live in Texas. Seize it, wrap it in the DARE graphic, and added a decal on the back window about how this was seized from a drug dealer 

So if I am ever speeding in Irvine, the best way to lose the cops is to drive through a carwash?

USMCA:

“I’ll take NAFTA, tweak it a little here and there... change its name to something that looks like the acronym for the Marine Corps and say it’s an all-new trade deal negotiated by me that fixes everything bad about NAFTA.”

-Donald Trump

“Are they giving us the finger because we’re cops or because we’re in a Cybertruck?”

Since when does a police department actually pay for a “community engagement” vehicle? Around me they’re all either cars seized from drug dealers or free surplus MRAPs.

Bingo. My mom and my late dad are/were some of the biggest ‘America First’ Trumpers you would find.