You know what happened the last time an engineer took over as CEO of a car company? They went from making boring, dull, cheapened, unreliable cars to exciting, forward-looking, profitable, and decently reliable cars.

Just curious, is it illegal to put some RGB LED strips along your helmet and turn them on at night for visibility?

I’m always super-duper cautious about fluid viscosity in low temps.

Well Jesus, if you want your Corinthian leather and mahogany side panel accents, then go and spend more money on a different car. But I guarantee you it will be less exciting and less livable. And totally not worth the money.

I live in an HOA like that, purely because we had to find a place to rent in 30 days and this was the least worst place in the area ($3k per month for “1100 sq ft” which must have included the garage in that square footage).

Agreed. Batteries burn, but hydrogen explodes. Especially hydrogen at 6500+ PSI.

I can understand Ford’s approach to this. People really want CarPlay/Android Auto for robust, reliable smartphone linkage, and they have fortunately built that in.

Typical Chinese startup nonsense that everyone believes at first and is excited like crazy, then just hopes that they can actually deliver on their promises mostly, then completely forgets about it once they actually launch with a shoddily-built product that may have impressive numbers all around, but doesn’t actually…

Not to mention, there are plenty of clubs that do track days with instructor sessions for under $200. You can use your boring econobox or really anything but an SUV or truck and put it on the track. If you feel like you’re pushing the car too hard, just pull back the throttle and it’ll be fine.

3. CUVs will fade in popularity as everyone finally wises up and realizes they just want a nice wagon, instead.

Unless you’re Tesla, then it’s all Silicon-Valley investor speculation that allows you to burn cash like there’s no tomorrow and still be worth crazy amounts of money.

Which, fortunately for Boeing, is built in the same St. Louis plant as the F-15.

Came here to say this. Pit Row is a fantastic DIY shop owned and run by a very respectable and fantastically helpful German couple. $30 an hour to get all the tools you could ever need, a great lift, free disposal of hazardous waste, and professional guidance is more than worth it. Very glad I live about 3 miles from…

I’ve got that same helmet. Haven’t tested its safety yet (thank goodness), but so far it’s fabulously comfortable even with all-day riding, and especially light-weight. The $185 price tag was also right about where I wanted to spend. Sure it doesn’t have a built-in shade, but the build quality overall is fantastic, so…

Low-mileage cars in California are actually going to be worse-off than higher-mileage cars. My wife sees these all the time at the BMW/Audi/Mini shop she works at.

The 250s absolutely will, but if you step up to a 300 you can still do triple-digit speeds (after many, many seconds of wide-open-throttle) and have ridiculous amounts of fun.

In the Bay Area, these cars are far from gentle. The people inside them do very strange things on the road, like turn right from a left-turn lane, cross all lanes of traffic with no warning or indication, stop in the middle of the road for no reason, or just go into the complete opposite side fo the road because they…

The first-gen xB was my turn-of-the-driving-age “realistic dream car.” It was reasonably priced, got great gas mileage, held a shitload of stuff, and I thought it looked great. Also had lots of aftermarket support for the young, foolish-with-money type eager to “upgrade” the sound system with massive subwoofers.

Allow lane-splitting in all states, not just California. At least 2% of the people on the road would pay more attention instead of just 1%.

Yup, motorcycles are the way to go in California. You can lane-split the entire way, get automatic HOV lane access all the time, and you can always find a place to park. Suddenly a 60-minute commute now takes 20 minutes, and you can do it pretty much 360 days per year.