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EVs will be niche vehicles until charging infrastructure offers the same convenience as the existing fossil fuel infrastructure. Case closed. Plug in hybrids are a necessary transition to an all electric future. Case closed.

Not everyone will be able to experience driving super fast, extreme handling exotics like Ferrari’s or McLaren’s in their lifetime.

Not a car. But you should drive an old tractor. I am a little biased but a late 40s - early 50s John Deere B. Hand throttle, hand clutch, two brake pedals, manual steering and that beautiful “putt putt putt” of the 2 cyl.

Motorcycle. Riding a motorcycle has made me a better driver. Things like looking at other drivers eyes and where they are looking has saved my bacon on the bike numerous times and avoided insurance claims while in the car.

A car with manual everything. I’ve driven a few cars without power steering and a manual transmission and it makes you really think about what you are doing at all times.  Parallel parking really make you appreciate a power steering pump.

Everyone should drive something HUGE, like the biggest box truck you can rent. Or a really big RV. A bus. A semi, if you could.

Formula 1, as currently formulated, is awful.

55 MPH is more than a “minor inconvenience”. Have you ever driven (or been a passenger) crossing Kansas at 55 MPH? Christ it felt like I could get out and walk faster than that.

What “customers” are manufacturers talking to when they ask about piano black?  Are they the same people that were responding to surveys about everything being gray/white/black in houses starting in about 2018?  Piano black is awful and if I was stuck with a car that had it, I would do my best to wrap it in something

Oh boy....change out “cars” for “real estate” (bitcoin? hookers?), change the date to 2029, and the location to Mara Lago, and let’s have this convo again.

To be fair, they were obtained by looting the people of Syria for decades so it all works out. And “But this classic ferarri deserves better?” Then Ferarri shouldn’t have sold it to Assad.

Maybe that’s why he lost? 

Sadly, those are all likely to be looted if they haven’t been already. We’ve been through this before with Gaddafi, Saddam, etc. 

What kind of tyrant doesn’t own a Lambo LM0002 ?

I feel that just about anyone can make a sub-7 second Ring car for $350,000+

How many will they manage to make before Stellantis collapses completely?

Will my Flipper Zero be able to turn off the fake exhaust noises of nearby cars so I don’t have to listen to crummy, stupid-loud Playstation 2 Gran Turismo car exhaust sounds?

...”When can I get it in for the recall work to be done?”

If I can’t get a Suzuki Jimny, what even was the point of destroying the American experiment?