These people don't even know why they're looting or rioting

You seem to be lecturing someone else. I'm pointing out the simple truth that someone driving a fuel-efficient car is burning tons less fuel than a regular car, here's the math. I agree it's only part of someone's ecological footprint, I'm sorry your jerk friends acted like it's a free pass to be wasteful in other…

Prius (car that was trendy 4 years ago) ≠ electric car (car that's barely arrived on the market), so like Charing Ball it's hard to follow your meanderings. Name a more advanced drivetrain than Toyota's HSD e-CVT. The fuel savings are facts that translate fairly directly into real environmental benefits over the life…

Way to stereotype over a million drivers of a vehicle that stopped being trendy four years ago. If you can afford ~$25,000 for a new car and you don't care how it drives, why wouldn't you buy a practical dull midsize Prius hatchback that's also the most aerodynamic, fuel-efficient, reliable (according to Consumer…

@Charing Ball, Environmental-safe automobile

Sudbury was an environmental wasteland, it's not so bad now.

In addition to his wild early performance art like being crucified on a VW and the supreme getting shot in the arm, he's done other mechanical stuff.

Currency intervention isn't directly related to the stock market. The massive drop was probably due to more evidence of weakness in the American recovery, plus a European think tank bluntly concluded "Debt-laden Italy is likely to default". It's one thing for eleventy billion dollars of loans and bonds to Greece and…

"Life is just a merciful blur, when you pop a Pißwasser.

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Because plain-vanilla boring SLs, even AMG models, are astoundingly common in the wealthy enclaves of West L.A. (and the West End of London). The Black looks different enough that even non-car fans will notice, and L.A. is all about the flash.

"Through the extensive use of carbon fiber in the car's front fenders, hood and new fixed roof, the SL shed about 570 pounds [in the Black version]." 1. Carbon fiber is expensive: the Black cost $100,000 more than the el-cheapo $198,000 SL65 AMG. 2. The fixed-roof Camaro does save a lot of weight over the…

The CTS has the unwieldy-looking rear area, because Cadillac doesn't put a fender bulge or wheel arch in the rear, unlike the ugly themeless M-B C class that everyone here is mentioning.

The US version is unlikely to achieve 50 mpg. The target for the 1.0/1.2L diesel versions is "under 5.0L/100km" (over 47 mpg) on the Euro cycle. But on the same cycle the Prius gets 3.9L/100km (60 mpg); European numbers are much more optimistic (and Japanese numbers are more optimistic still). There are subcompact…

The Focus electric vehicle does not go on sale until next year so Mulally could not give Letterman a price

The Focus electric vehicle does not go on sale until next year so Mulally could not give Letterman a price

The Focus electric vehicle does not go on sale until next year so Mulally could not give Letterman a price

Exactly. When things look good for Tesla they raise more money to do more (Model S production and now Model X design). It's a classic growth strategy beyond Jalopnik editors' comprehension, intentionally foregoing profits now to be a bigger more valuable company. And @MaWeiTao's so-called "self-centered investors…

Adrian Smith also designed the Burj Khalifa tower while at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The real stars of these big swinging dickfests are the structural engineers. Thorton Tomasetti's company are the structural engineers for the Kingdom Tower and Taipei 101; William Baker of SOM worked on Burj Khalifa, and the…

That's not what Gizmodo wrote. Wright's style for the Illinois Mile High tower is very different from his other designs and is indeed jagged and hard-edged; though I think he correctly realized that something so tall is going to soften and recede into the clouds.