The actor’s strike is really starting to take its toll. 

Real leather made from actual animal hide.

Raises Hand. I DO! I DO! I DO!!!!!

Don’t forget the new normal of outrageous markup due to dealers treating their EV stable like it’s Faberge eggs!

This. Can’t wait until manufacturers overreact and we are swamped in well-built economy cars and compact pickups with no unwanted features in six years’ time.

Weird. Normal people don’t want to buy a $50k car with 7% interest rates, tech that’s outdated faster than a modern smartphone, a business model that’s constantly pushing microservices, and tracks all your movements with no way to opt out or find out where that information is going?

This kind of goes against my personal experience. We somewhat recently drove to around 8 dealerships and most had 0 or 1 of any given EV model currently on the lot.

This certainly conforms to my experience recently. We’re looking for a new car and the lots are largely barren - except for dedicated EVs from some companies. We could have jumped into a Solterra, BZ4X, Mach-E, e-Mini, etc. immediately - just completed the sale and driven it off the lot... and in any number of…

Like... Aztek?

This. And if you have an HOA, ffs show up to the meeting(s). I’m a first time home owner. My HOA has a single annual meeting just to get the budget approved for simple stuff like lawn mowing service for spaces that aren’t owned by any one person.

I plan on driving my Elio to pick it up 

Ah, Naperville North. This doesn’t surprise me.

You’re making the assumption that those things are important to any EV owner.

You know what other Tesla is due for a mid-cycle refresh? The Cybertruck. It is four years old already, and in need of a refresh.

This right here. I don’t drink much at all and I don’t drink and drive ever. But I don’t want to pay for this unnecessary technology to monitor me. It takes long enough to start my current car, get my phone synced with the infotainment, etc. etc. Adding more friction to that is not a solution.

I’ve been shopping for a new snowblower. Since Honda is seemingly getting out of the snowblower business (in the U.S.) to make room to build more UTVs, perhaps they can bring us one of their autonomous snowblowers? I’d love to sit in my warm house and watch the robots blow snow from my driveway. The little roomba…

Isn’t it time for your booster ?

“Reliable communications in an emergency?” Do those FEMA guys actually listen to AM radio? We just had a 3 year national emergency that killed over 1 million Americans and all I recall hearing on that great FEMA-funded AM radio was that the whole emergency was a hoax.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan vowed Palazuelo will pay for the multi-million dollar project.

I can’t say I think Toyota is totally wrong here. No matter where you live geographically, nor whether you rent an apartment or own a house with a garage, you can gain efficiency with a non-plug in hybrid.