That’s really the thing. It was just entirely unnecessary to lie. The actual result was still impressive, but they went into the test with a goal instead of a hypothesis, so rather than test a hypothesis and report the findings, they made up narrative to meet their goal.

An ‘85 Vette does the quarter in 14.1 seconds. A 2022 Accord 2.0 Sport will do it in 13.9 seconds. 

ask that question to yourself, because you seem quite triggered over the whole thing. lol

Sure, bud. It’s the Porsche owners who have fragile egos. Not the vapid man-baby who buys entire companies on a whim (only to burn billions by failing by every conceivable metric) and his bootlicking fans.

Who cares? Very clearly Tesla cared since they invented the story ...

What’s crazy to me is they could have claimed that the Cybertruck can do a 13s quarter mile while towing a car and that would still be extremely impressive. But it’s on-brand for them to cherry pick numbers and misrepresent what their products can actually do.

Yeah, super-gross.  I feel bad for the writers, who really have so few options at this point.  The one beneath it, about Jez, is also terrible.

Huh, looks a lot like the Jeep JJ

Yep. You know that and I know that, but the citizens of Trump land are in different planet altogether. Warning: do not feed them.

One of my college buddies had one of those.  Can confirm that it was a BLAST to drive.

The Republican Party isn’t interested in ideas on how to govern. They want to destroy the government. Their most prominent behind-the-scenes manipulator, Grover Norquist, famously said he wants to drown the government in the bathtub.

So in other words, the “luxury” part used to mean you’d have the luxury of knowing you were stuck with whatever base-spec delivery van you bought for a long, long time because it had such good build quality.

Now you have the luxury of planning a giant repair bill when some stupid cheap part in the heated seats dies.

Thats the Chrysler Eagle. This is the AMC Eagle logo. 

The federal government is a perfect example of the Peter Principle.  When you throw political appointees on top of it all it really takes a shit.

For all their faults, the U.S. Postal Service and the U.S. air travel system are both modern marvels of logistical efficiency that are way too often unfairly crapped upon.

I have a mighty need to put the USPS badges on an E63 Wagon

“They decided to take off the Mercedes badge because they were afraid that people would see that and think we were spending too much money.”

Yep. Daimler has been making commercial vehicles from vans to tractor-trailers to buses for forever. We are just not familiar with them in this country.

Because gov’t is vilified unlike any private company, unfortunately

I thought (at least some of) the LLVs did say “Grumman” on the side.