Lol. Priorities. I should call my mom and see if the basement’s free. Then I could spend my rent money on an M5. Not a bad deal.

Very simple fact. Had Kevin Ward Jr. not exited his race car and walked down the racing surface, he would still be alive. Everything else in this case is irrelevant. If I pull my car over on the shoulder and get out, stepping in front of a semi, is it my fault or the semi driver’s fault?

His payout was because Google bought his first autonomous driving company. I don’t think Google gives out $100M retention bonuses to employees, or they might have given him one after his stock purchase vested.

Agreed. It’s more than likely that they have direct contact with the development team, or at least someone in charge of purchasing equipment.

The really damning evidence for me is that a supplier actually called waymo and was like “someone is asking us to build a part that looks like yours”.

A vendor would just about never do this unless the part was so close to identical that they worried about their own liability. EG, obviously copied or stolen. It’s…

He just really wants to get those sweet, sweet billionaire car doors that open like this:

I wouldn’t be so optimistic about the price, looks like the current Regal has a base price of $27k and the wagon has AWD and the uprated engine standard, I’d be surprised if the wagon MSRP was significantly less than $35k putting it out of reach for most of us leaving us stuck with the Golf as the only wagon option…

That’s what I was figuring. What worries me is the remarks about ‘competing with Audi and BMW.’ The Allroad and 3 series wagon both start around $42k, so Buick will probably be somewhere between the 3.6R Outback and a 3 series.

Seriously, Jalops, this is it. The moment of truth. We need to buy this car.

If it’s under $30k I’ll buy one right now.

What do you do about rural areas if you’re taking the “fuck roads” approach?

i hate to be the bearer of schadenfreude... but sometimes, seeing the young upstarts who try to break into a significant competitive market that is burdened by reams of regulation with manufacturers that have decades of history, with their “disruptive technologies,” without doing the leg-work to support their ideas,…

Don’t underestimate their space prowess. Apart from their space firsts, they kept MIR running for years, with chewing gum and duct tape. Their own shuttle copy, Buran, flew a couple or orbits and landed to within a meter or two of it’s mark, BY REMOTE CONTROL. The current ISS crews have as their daily driver, one of…

Considering the top rocket technology in the world is Russian & is currently being used by every union including the US as the standard Russia is right, without Russia the US rocketry program would be decades behind at this point & still be using outdated technolgy.

I’ve no pity.

They had the option to keep it, get it fixed for free, and get the full settlement amount for their trouble.

It’s not like getting it fixed would have left them with no cash.

It’s also not like getting it fixed would have ruined the car.

They fell to hype, made a rash decision to get rid of a car, and are…

Confession - I find burnouts pointless and kind of dumb. The problem is that pretty much anything with a manual can do a burnout, it’s not some special display of ability other than being able to buy new tires at will.

If that’s all that’s going to be in the car, then it seems pretty clear that they want to force you to give up driving when you get a Model 3. How else are you going to be able to safely change your radio presets or your climate control settings while being forced to take your eyes off the road in order to do so?

You can care deeply about your car without caring particularly about swirls on your clearcoat.

I’m betting that a Hulk Hogan Grill would not have been picked up like the Foreman Grill. George Foreman has an affable character. Terry Bollea, on the other hand, while an absolute hero to many who grew up in my generation, doesn’t come across nearly as endearing.

George deserves a lot of credit for its success. He was the perfect pitchman.