1st gear - Rivian was looking cool to me, now not at all.

In general, you have to watch your credit report like a fing hawk these days. I had an erroneous delinquency from a medical lab for eleven fucking dollars knocking off about 65 points from my score. Fixed within 35 days after I caught it, disputed it, and had the reporter inform all three credit bureaus it clucked up. …

Truer words. Anyone who uses dealer or manufacturer’s financing is a sap. Ditto anyone who puts up with bank bullshit when credit unions exist.

To be honest, I’d rather have that then have Ford churn out an amazing new Mustang, but have it look completely unrecognizable. [See: C8 “Corvette”]

I know I’m a weird kid, but if they dropped the EcoBoost hybrid into it without ruining the updated retro looks or interior room, I’d be all over it. I have a 2019 that’s two-thirds paid for, so I am hoping to not love it, but with my luck, I probably will.

Why does EV automatically equal hideously quirky? Are manufacturers hellbent on shooting themselves in the foot with designs that make people who actually love cars involuntarily gag?

1st gear: Ironic as each new Mercedes released seems to set a higher and higher bar to how much uglier their designs can get. Good thing BMW is there to keep the ugly vehicle wars running hot.

Reverse: Yes, indeed. The de Havilland Comet saga is well worth devoting your next rabbit hole adventure to if it’s unfamiliar.…

Teslas can’t see massive bright red firetrucks or EMT rigs, so we’re supposed to be surprised they ignore motorcycles?

Biblical doesn’t even begin to describe what it will be.

Cadillac is so on meth.

It’s about damn time. If I were Ford, I’d be pissed off too. They do all the heavy lifting to develop the vehicles and especially on EVs, sell them at super slim margins. Then instead of getting some volume behind these important launches, dealers instead try to get rich quick by gouging the customers which just…

Golly gee willikers, where have we seen that before?

Maybe, but you could damn well hear it and feel it. 

Sorry, I proofread for a living. I try to turn it off, but I can’t not see these things. :-)

Here’s what happens when the poor engineer isn’t allowed to wear his own threads to the press event.

Or simply for lying to get their jobs, which would get you fired in the public sector. 

Many states are already fine with pulling over folks for driving while being black, or driving while being brown. Might as well add driving while being female to the list.

/s

Yuck. But I do appreciate Zimmer for giving us the Quicksilver.

1st gear: This thing is stylin’ front and rear. This is the cool, funky, happy puppy ready to follow you home vibe the new VW abomination bus successor (they couldn’t even resist not fawking up the name), ID Buzz, should have had.

Mustang and Eclipse aren’t apples to apples.