I’ve never had the battery die on a piece of paper.

Oh, you mean the Lightning Cat! Yeah, it’s channeling Porsche in the same way Ford sedans channeled Aston. I would drive this for sure.

...the lede here should have been that it’s a four door Beetle!

Unfortunately Ford will most definitely “Raptor” all the things… personally I’m waiting for the Escape Raptor, that’s the “clever girl” you want.

If they don’t call it the Ford Hippogriff someone in that marketing department needs to lose their job.

It’s a feature not a bug anymore at this point. When talking about games my friends an I often will say “there’s some Bethesda in there,” when there are glitches or clipping through walls etc.

The video in the news report says that its tires and brakes. The video provided by the Turo guy shows that yeah, the car was raced, but the tires still had life left in them. My guess is he went and got quotes for new tires and brakes then chose one of the quotes to give to the news.

This is why I took my 1987 Yugo GV off of Turo.

If I’m going to have a Kimi Quote mug, it’s gonna be the “No Kimi, you will not have the drink” just so I can tell myself “because it’s mine!” after every sip.  

If we’re requesting mugs with radio chatter then I want Kimi! “Leave me alone. I know what I’m doing.”

Dude’s named after two banks so eff him.

I don’t know... the promise of zero to 60 in 6.6 seconds plus the MPG’s has me considering it for the next car. If it actually handles it would be a nice little hatch...

of course it has a fucking CVT so... meh

Just an engineering exercise to make a 50+ mpg hybrid while getting more power.

It would need an EV BOOST button with bigger motors. Press that bad boy coming out of corners or press and hold it for the 1/4 to do 12 sec runs.

“In this mode, the Dakar offers an approach angle of 16.1 degrees, departure of 18.8, and breakover of 19 degrees”

I want to send this so hard. I’ve never wanted to send anything more in my life, but this? My gosh. I would send it and then send it some more. It must be sent. The 911 Dakar is begging: “Send Me.” It belongs in low-earth orbit, competing with satellites for send height and duration. I’m glad they’ve though about…

So I had until a year ago, 1 97 30th Anniversary SS just like the this one but with the lt1. I was fortunate to find it completely stock and unmolested with about 80,000 miles on it. I drove this thing to the office as often as the weather and children permitted. It’s not the fastest or rarest but it was such a fun…

I don't think that was an engineer's decision. 

I love that, despite the interior being the epitome of late-90's GM cost cutting “plastic fantastic”, some engineer bothered to spend an extra $0.01 and put “ABS” on the brake pedal for no practical reason. Other than likely making its way into a picture for the brochure, no one would ever see or notice it way down…