I’d much rather visit Goose Bay than Detroit...

So the ones responsible for going there and getting them back home were Labrador retrievers?

It all depends on what your baseline expectation is for this kind of event and how quickly those goalposts are moved. Of course it beats having your plane nosedive into the Atlantic, but that’s a pretty low bar to set. Presumably, someone is responsible for the plane’s failure. That someone is definitely not among the…

Goose Bay caught the very first diverted planes on 9/11. Thanks Canada! 🇨🇦

I thought I saw a flash of an oil refinery in the trailer, kind of implying that fuel was still being produced, but access to it was controlled by a murderous cartel that manipulates the market and destroys lives in a bid for power. Kind of like today.

I mean, 45 years after the apocalypse, chances are good they would not have enough fuel of any kind to run a fleet of war vehicles, never mind a plentiful stash of tires and other spare parts, but I’m willing to go with it. (Apologies ahead of time if you were just making a joke.)

This looks distractingly more CGI than Fury Road, and I don’t think it is a movie that needed to be made. I’ll watch it, of course, but I think we got as much backstory as we needed in Fury Road.

The only bit I don’t like is assigning a firm number to the date of the apocalypse. I don’t think it needs it.

Slate be like...

The fact that power actually reduces the need for transmission speeds, was a fact that was burning a hole in my nerd brain. Thanks for relieving the pressure.

Hell, Top Fuel Dragsters have 10,000 hp and they only have one gear.

Clearly, that writer fell for the idea that more gears = more performance.  I’m sure that there’s an engineering manager somewhere that is reading that and rubbing their hands together in victory.

To be fair to Slate, the gist of the article was that there really is no need for cars that can go 3-4 times the speed limit. And they’ve got a point. The same way we don’t need giant truuuuuuuuks to drop the kids off at school, the same way we don’t need hockey mom Expeditions to get the groceries, we don’t need…

I saw the article. And I immediately thought how that news-ish/whiny East cost liberal finger-pointing site was barking up the wrong tree like what you wrote—many gears keep you right in the sweet spot of torque band—duh.

“A big number of gears means the car has a ton of horsepower”

Why an eight speed?

That’s a fair point

Tom, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I agree with everything you’ve ever written... until this. Based on all the pictures at the bottom, and approximately 15 seconds of image searching, you are clearly missing the 3rd rule of a proper wagon. To maintain the proper wagon look, the rear/third window must extent at…

Thank you, Jeff. It’s some of my best work.

That’s a fantastic title, haha