Jalopnik doesn't report Tesla news. Factory starting up, record revenue (and losses!), successful second stock offering, Model S nearing production, details about the new battery+400 hp motor platform, are all conspicuously absent. Just Musk's foibles and failures and some of the bad news.

TSLA's market capitalization today is $2.75 billion dollars (down since they announced the two executives leaving). If you think it's heading for the rocks, you're free to make a fortune shorting the stock. But the Model S beta prototypes look great, Tesla has $$M in reservations and has sold out the expensive…

vaporware is the wrong term. Tesla made and sold over 1,900 Tesla Roadsters, and manufactures its own motor, motor controller, battery pack, and battery management system, which it also sells to Daimler and Toyota. We'll see what happens with the Model S, Musk e-mailed last week "There is no question in my mind that…

Here you go, Audi S2 coupé, 5-speed manual standard. Since it hasn't been equaled and still looks great, does it count as newish?

Ford sells the Focus EV, but it is a weak electric car: expensive and the battery eats up the trunk space. It's the car for someone who can't stand the Leaf's shape or the i-MiEV's size, but still really wants an electric car. Since Ford is putting a drivetrain from Magna in it, it's not behind the project at all.…

What reason do you have to think a Focus EV, Leaf, or Volt is less well-built than a regular car? Are you picturing a few bumps knocking the electrons loose? An all-electric car can be far more reliable than a gasoline burner, far fewer parts, no emissions, belts, oil pumps, etc., etc.

The Tesla departures sure seem like bad news, Rawlinson knows aluminum frames and has tons of auto industry experience. Best case the Model S has no remaining problems and plopping the Model X and then the new Roadster on top of the Model S battery-motor "skateboard" platform is easy. We'll see how Musk's claim to…

Google suggests the "I Can't Believe It's Not Female" educational DVD series, but don't go there...

You didn't show the opening where the ape-monster punched the hole in the building.

I refer you to this recent thread.

Because if all you do is visit web sites and do some tasks that can be done reasonably in the browser, there is no reason at all to install software, deal with upgrades, back up your documents, etc. About half my friends and relatives don't want to "run an OS" at all, and they struggle with the distinction between…

... says someone typing away in a browser.

@Brent, you need to get out more, the Toto Washlet just celebrated its 30-year anniversary. We like our S300, though the remote control panel's LCD is hard to read. For a lot more money Toto's Neorest sculptural toilet flips its seat up for you. Kohler has the similar C3 seat and $6300 Numi toilet.

The Washlet celebrated its 30-year anniversary in 2011.

We'll never run out of oil, we're: 1) running out of cheap oil — it costs more each year to extract and refine the last gallon delivered. 2) not finding enough new sources of oil — "World wide oil discoveries have been less than annual production since 1980." Since prices remain high that's extremely good evidence…

Your prescription to sell more Roadsters seems dubious. $200k for a Lotus Elise chassis? I know Tesla puts in its own motor, electronics, battery pack, and carbon fiber panels, but that's a step too far. Venturi tried to sell the Fétish for tons of money, as did Wrightspeed the X1, they both failed to sell more than…

And the R8 excellence continue (this is Audi 2009). Look at the soft curve around the eye, on car and professional. Vorsprung durch Technik!

The consistency of the Audi R8 for beautiful curves is awe-inspiring (this is 2011), followed by Maserati. Its Lamborghini Gallardo relation is hit or miss.

Digital copies are better than books for long-term survival, so long as the file formats are published and enough Kindle/Nook/Sony owners have downloaded the cracks to strip the DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) from their purchased e-books. Fight piracy, but support hacking!

At 0:24 "a minivan limousine which happens to be a coupé and which also happens to be a convertible". One of the best short car review of all time, and a perfect 17-word answer to the Jalopnik story's title.