It’s not a fabricated number, but rather how I guessed the number based upon pricing in the cost of inflation, and adding the “wagon” bit over what a Golf R last sold for.

I think if they took this same drivetrain and idea, put it into an Audi A3 Estate Sport... maybe.

See, I feel you there’s because I’m just outside of Houston. My two most common (long) drives are Austin and Dallas. Neither is really doable (reasonably, without headaches) given what charging infrastructure we have.

You know, our political adversary... Taiwan. I’m tired of them coming into our Call of Duty matches with all those ringers and just wrecking shit. Like, come on. They have to be using mods or something. There is no freakin’ way they’re that good at aiming.

My first experience with ‘bags was a bugeye WRX wagon. My buddy Dexter did the airbag and widebody thing to it, and then “ruh roh, I got a kid on the way, better sell it” — so he sold me this half-finished project WRX that... I honestly wasn’t sure what to make of it. This was like 2006, mind you. The whole “stance…

When they’re not putting like 30 cows and 15 mahogany trees inside whoosh-cars for rappers, Rolls Royce has a nice litttle side business making whoosh-fans for airplanes.

What brand is most ready to do the EV thing? Honda. Toyota has the RAV 4 Prime, and I’m 99% certain they make a big announcement within the year about their next generation all-electric crossover to compete with the Mustang Mach-E, Model Y, Hyundai Ionic 5, the Kia... I think it’s called something like 6? I don’t…

Wild idea: Body cams that can’t be turned off. At the end of every shift, officers plug their camera into a server to upload the footage along with the audio. If it ever needs to be referenced, it’s always there.

The most remarkable part of this story: No drugs or alcohol involved. Just good old fashioned dipshittery in the name of freedom.

This reminds me of an old parable about engineers versus salespeople.

I’m halfway there with you. I just think that the Corolla customers is a little different breed than the RAV 4 customer. Trim wise, the best selling Corolla is the LE, while the RAV 4 sells the most units of the XLE.

Who the fuck listens to steely dan anymore...

It’s really strange to me how people equate size with value. Of course, it’s the same thing with “super-sizing” a fast food meal — it’s all about total profit margin for a slightly larger product.

You know what this feels like? When you have that conservative Christian friend who one day announces their intent to get a “edgy” tattoo. Nothing against edgy tattoos, as I have a few myself — but uh... are you sure, Gregory? You’ve gone this long without doing it. You made it through your 20s. You had two kids.…

I bought a 2019 Audi Q7 a little over a year ago. It is currently worth (conservatively) $8,000 more in trade than what I paid for it — and that’s after putting 3,500 miles on the clock. (We didn’t drive much last year, for uhm... reasons.) If I didn’t actually need it for moving my family around right now, I’d…

Well, at least they’re not pulling the pit maneuver and flipping vehicles of pregnant wome— oh wait. Nevermind.

Believe it or not, the NOAA is a massive organization, and it’s not my job to know everything about their operations.

My anonymous online self? I’m a low-key TikTok celebrity. It’s not hard to find my credentials. Degree in physics, currently a machine learning engineer and artificial intelligence application developer. I own the company that built the NOAA prediction map, and I have a contracts with some of the largest defense…

It’s something that has something like a 0.7% chance of happening on any given year, but the fact that this $30B investment can be randomly knocked out by something with a probability that high is exactly why this entire business model is insane.

I feel like I need someone else to buy a Chinese car first. I just don’t... yeah... nah. It’s not going to be me.