we can dream

Can you imagine driving from the Panama Canal to something like Cape Town or Edinburgh? Talk about a MF’ing bucket list item.

Balls. Of. Steel. 

I think in theory it might be cheaper to move goods from Central Asia via rail with this connection than by ship across the pacific.

Definitely. I tried talking my Boomer parents into taking a look at an XT6, but they took a used Navigator instead.

Fair point, but would want to see actual dimensions before passing final judgement. Just based on those pictures, it looks like the X6 has more door while having the same amount of window, which would mean an overall taller car. 

At the very least, they could start the slope at the C-Pillar so they aren’t giving up any headroom or egress. At that point we are talking about a pretty ugly 5-door liftback, but if the whole point was practicality....

At first glance, this looks like it doesn’t have much more ground clearance than an Ecosport, which just drives home the point that the line between cars and small crossovers is far too blurry to be worth differentiating.

Yeah, something doesn’t add up here. I’m not sure someone who would be underwater for that long could also front the deposit for the Rivian. Very weird indeed. 

I think a person who gets on the list for a Rivian is in a different position than the sort of person who gets a 9 year loan on a lifted F250. He might just be one of those guys who has the cash for it but finances everything for whatever galaxy brain reason most finance guys do. 

Yeah, my knee jerk reaction before read any of the story was: YES for the love of god, and buy something that doesn’t put you underwater for a significant amount of time.

I guess my approach is just a lot more rudimentary. If the car has more power than the chassis reasonably needs, I call it a muscle car. The true antithesis to that is something like an FD RX7, or an E36 M3, cars that don’t value outright power as much as balance. And being relatively affordable pretty important too.…

I see where you’re going with this, but muscle cars have sort of taken the place of pony cars by default. If we actually still had stuff like the Chevelle SS, Gran Torino, Cutlass, etc; this would be a different discussion.

Meh, I’m not that pissed about the bonk. I can’t judge the actions of anyone who has just been involved as something as absurdly dangerous as an F1 crash. As much as the cars can make the drivers feel invincible, nerves can be very frayed immediately after a collision and the cars just start turning into plastic…

I’d argue that we have been @ peak muscle for about a decade. Throw out the Demon/Hellcat/GT500/ZL1 because those are way too god damn expensive to be a muscle car. You touch on this somewhat in the blog, but those deserve their own class of something like supermuscle.

There’s some things that become so douchey, that even douches won’t touch it. I could easily see ICE supercars heading into that territory within 20 years.

LMAO. Working in the industrial sector will really change one’s perspective on consumer-level environmentalism.

1st is good news. While Harley loses the boomer suburban dentist marker, it’s important to remember there are a lot of actual working class people who ride Harleys because they love them, and probably enough to stay profitable.

Nothing ever is, really.

Would anybody ever had really faulted Ferrari for topping out at mild hybrids? I mean, we wall know EV is the future for consumer vehicles, but a company that tops out at <10,000 cars year and spends all the time feeling itself over the passion and flair and <generic emotional term 3> would probably be forgiven for…